Electrical Consulting Engineer – Project Manager

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Minimum 10-15 years in the industry
• Minimum 5 years of design experience; plan spec or design build
• Minimum 5 years of direct client contact
• Minimum 5 years in developing and delivering professional presentations on program status and opportunities for improvements
• Thorough understanding of construction delivery methods (Design build, Design bid build, Negotiated contract)

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
• Experience in at least two building types, i.e., Education, Retail, Commercial TI, etc.
• Excellent organizational and communications skills
• Experience managing internal and external teams within the engineering fields
• Experience developing detailed scopes of work and reviewing professional contracts
• Thorough working knowledge of mechanical/electrical systems for team coordination
• Serve as a technical resource for others throughout the firm, providing thought leadership and subject matter expertise
• Recommended not required – Project Management Professional (PMP) certification through PMI

Marketing

• Manage client relationships with fortune 100 clients and/or public sector and government entities
• Develop & collaborate with the marketing group for content development including but not limited to project team resumes, process diagrams, project approach philosophy, specific design philosophy, project profiles, case studies and website content
• Collaborate & technical QC review on RFQ and RFP project opportunity responses
• Participate in industry topic presentations
• Participate and lead project team interviews

Workload & Financial

• Manage assigned project teams workload, team organizational structure, project milestones and key task deliverables
• Maintain and update monthly workload forecasting summaries
• Lead and support fee proposal development; ensure fee consistency between client types and project types
• Monitor and track financial performance on projects
• Monitor and track the need for evaluating additional services request submission
• Process billing review reports (BRRs) for assigned business sectors, clients & projects
• Review draft invoices
• Manage client accounts receivable (AR) for assigned business sectors, clients & projects
• Establish workload design and construction task deliverable sequences and process to manage teams, train teams on time management, implement approaches to drive performance efficiencies

Staff Management, Development & Training

• Develop training sessions and mentoring for staff, brown bags or technical seminars
• Manage staff certifications, continuing education, and associated renewals
• Recognize areas for internal improvement and develop plans for improvement
• Review employee performance and provide ongoing feedback
• Identify gaps in talent and develop recommendations for improvements
• Supervises employees including selecting, training, assigning and evaluating work, counseling, disciplining, and/or terminating

Technical

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to clearly and concisely present information in one-on-one and small group situations and interact effectively at all levels and across diverse corporate cultures
• Significant experience with various system types and manufacturers
• General understanding of various technologies and emerging technologies and systems
• Detailed understanding of local and national codes

Client Standards

• Maintain owner’s performance requirements and basis of design documents
• Develop and maintain client specifications, part numbers, details, etc.
• Develop and maintain standards for construction documentation
• Evaluate and develop client facing reports for new and emerging technology

Standards Documentation & Process Implementation

• Understanding of CAD, Revit and Bluebeam
• Specification creation from masters within Microsoft Word
• Cost Opinions creation from masters within Microsoft Excel
• Drawing development look and feel consistency by business sector, client type and project type
• Clear understanding of design and installation details
• Clear understanding of control diagrams
• Clear understanding of commissioning documentation and requirements