Project Director-ENG

Job Description

Zachry Engineering Corporation (ZEC) is currently looking for a talented Project Director in our Downers Grove, IL office. This is a great opportunity to work with a high-performing team on interesting and challenging design projects for customers in the process, energy, and chemical industries. We want to talk with individuals who have experience leading successful project management teams and developing customer relationships.

The Director will be responsible for engineering project delivery, developing best practices and procedures and capability growth. Candidates should possess a minimum of 15 years of experience that include responsibilities for engineering project management across a significant portfolio. Strong business acumen is required along with solid experience in customer engagement. The individual should possess requisite leadership skills to motivate others, manage in a team environment, coordinate efforts and require a minimum amount of direction from senior management. This individual shall demonstrate effective communication skills and participate in the growth (i.e. selection, training and development) of engineering project management professionals.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for delivering large engineering capital projects to customer requirements. Monitoring key metrics including safety, financial performance, schedule and quality of deliverables.
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering and project management team serving as the single point of accountability for large capital project or a large program.
• Provide strong, effective and decisive leadership overseeing each project phase from initiation through delivery.
• Responsible for maintaining proper staff levels to meet project requirements. Actively recruit and train personnel for projects as necessary working with Zachry’s engineering manager and talent acquisition groups.
• Talent Development - Provide guidance, coaching, mentoring and advice to less senior professionals and staff. Assist in developing training modules. Manage performance evaluations of direct reports.
• Business acumen and coaching of all project leaders in delivering target financial outcomes.
• Collaborate with counterparts across Zachry regional offices to help realize our full enterprise strategy.
• Further develop and enhance our Best Practices and Procedures in the engineering project management and related functions.
• Engage and build relationships with customers.
• Responsible for growing service offerings and workload with existing customers and fostering relationships with potential new customers.
• Participate in negotiations for new contracts and change orders.
• Assist Business Development and Operations with project strategy, forming execution teams, and incorporating these into proposals and presentations.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an applicable engineering discipline.
• Have a minimum of 15 years industry experience, with 10 years of Project Management experience.
• Experience managing small-large capital projects in the process, energy, power or chemical industries. Project experience should involve management of multiple engineering disciplines and vendor management from early phases of project through start-up and commissioning.
• Experience in managing teams of 5 or more people.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, software proficiency including project performance tracking tools, progress reporting and similar project management tools
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in successfully managing and executing work with multiple domestic and international offices.

Engagement with or experience in a PMO