Overview
Job Description
The Engineer Leader 1 (EL1) supports, participates in, and leads projects/programs while building client trust and validating a world class solution. The EL1 leads engineering best practices across several disciplines and has experience with coaching and mentoring concepts and methods.
Job Responsibilities
The Engineering Leader 1 is responsible for:
- Leading complex technical discussions, projects, and/or programs.
- Validating world class technical solutions on projects.
- Ensuring engineering best practices are followed across multiple engineering and solution disciplines.
- Managing technical risk on a project.
- Providing oversight, direction, and technical expertise to engineering teams on a project.
- Leading an engineering discipline to develop new and upcoming engineers and technical experts.
- Preparing client-specific solutions.
- Driving the development and maintenance of project artifacts that are required to ensure success for a project.
- Identifying, recommending, and implementing work process improvements.
- Reviewing technical project details with project leadership.
- Managing the integration of data from multiple company systems and analyzing the data to draw insights on project technical solution.
- Ensuring safety regulations are adhered to and issues identified and resolved.
- Maintaining a positive, assertive relationship with project engineers to achieve project milestones and overall project success.
Skills
The Engineering Leader 1 required skills are:
- Ability to develop and provide solutions to technical challenges.
- Strong knowledge of one or more technologies and various application methods.
- Experience with collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
- Ability to lead and participate in technical discussions with project leadership.
- Ability to lead the application of principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment for one or more specific branches of engineering to the design and production of various goods and services.
- Strong Knowledge cost estimation.
- Strong knowledge of finance systems and basic principles of finance management.
- Ability to design, build, and development of a new product, technology, or service
- Ability to calculate and present the costs of a project when budgeting.
- Ability to develop and maintain trust and trusting relationships.
- Strong knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding
The Engineering Leader 1 Preferred Skills Are
- Strong knowledge of applying engineering science and technology to the construction industry.
- Ability to review and correct construction drawings and construction project standards.
- Strong knowledge of fabrication and installation standards and specifications
Tools Experience
The Engineering Leader 1 must have experience with:
- MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access)
- MS Outlook Mail
- Engineering Document Management System (EDMS)
- Microsoft Visio
- SharePoint
- SureTrak
- All M.C. Dean applications (including, but not limited to Job Connect, EVMS, Timesheets, Accubid, Infralink, Forms)
Education, Experience & Training
The Engineering Leader 1 required education and training is:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering preferably from an ABET accredited program.
- 7+ years of experience in any Engineering discipline with Construction experience with a Bachelor's in Engineering degree
The Engineering Leader 1 Preferred Education And Training Is
- Fundamentals of Engineering (FE/EIT) certification
- Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) certification
- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) training
- National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET) training
Abilities
- Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
- Sitting for extended periods of time.
- Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
- Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
- Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Identify and understand the speech of another person.
