Engineering Manager

The manager partners with sales, project management, service, operations, customers, consulting engineers, and allied vendors to manage technical risk and deliver reliable, compliant, and cost-effective solutions that meet customer requirements and company objectives. Maintain clear communication with leadership, customers, and internal stakeholders regarding technical scope, project status, engineering priorities, and resolution of significant concerns.

The Engineering Manager leads the engineering function supporting power generation and distributed energy projects. This role is responsible for developing and directing the engineering team, establishing technical standards and processes, allocating resources, and ensuring projects are designed and executed safely, accurately, and efficiently. The manager partners with sales, project management, service, operations, customers, consulting engineers, and allied vendors to manage technical risk and deliver reliable, compliant, and cost-effective solutions that meet customer requirements and company objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and develop the engineering team, including assigning work, setting priorities, establishing performance expectations, and supporting professional growth.
• Provide technical and managerial oversight for projects from initial concept through design, procurement, installation, commissioning, and closeout.
• Plan engineering capacity and allocate resources based on project priorities, schedules, technical complexity, and business needs.
• Establish, maintain, and enforce engineering standards, design practices, review procedures, templates, and quality-control processes.
• Review and approve technical designs, single-line diagrams, layouts, specifications, calculations, equipment selections, and submittals for accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
• Serve as the senior technical resource for power generation, electrical distribution, controls, energy storage, microgrid, and related engineered systems.
• Partner with sales, project management, service, and operations leaders to support project development, technical strategy, execution planning, and issue resolution.
• Manage technical risk by identifying design, scope, schedule, cost, constructability, and compliance concerns and ensuring timely corrective action.
• Coordinate with customers, consulting engineers, contractors, vendors, utilities, authorities having jurisdiction, and internal stakeholders to support successful project delivery.
• Support engineering input for proposals, RFQs, equipment procurement packages, project budgets, schedules, and change management.
• Ensure engineering work complies with company policies, safety requirements, applicable codes and regulations, contractual requirements, and industry best practices.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with allied vendors to align technical solutions, resolve product issues, and maintain knowledge of current technologies and offerings.
• Provide escalation support for complex field issues, testing, startup, commissioning, and system-performance concerns.
• Monitor engineering quality, workload, schedules, and key performance indicators; communicate risks, priorities, and resource needs to leadership.
• Lead design reviews, project reviews, and lessons-learned activities to improve quality, consistency, efficiency, and future project performance.
• Support recruiting, onboarding, succession planning, and retention of qualified engineering personnel.
• Maintain clear communication with leadership, customers, and internal stakeholders regarding technical scope, project status, engineering priorities, and resolution of significant concerns.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical Engineer
• 8 plus years of progressively responsible engineering experience including supporting complex power generation or distributed energy projects
• 3 plus years as an engineering leader or supervisor
• Strong project planning, prioritization, decision making, and problem solving skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Working knowledge of CAD and Solidworks