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Technical Manager Job Description

Description The Technical Manager is responsible for establishing consistency and direction in our technical groups through leadership direction and oversight of the technical staff. They will position Burns & McDonnell as a technical leader through establishing market trends and opportunities and providing direction for annual goals to improve technical excellence. The primary mission for the Technical Manager is to foster a culture where technical excellence is valued, recognized, and rewarded for the importance it brings to our organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the development of technical staff and provide guidance that continues to promote technical staff into leadership roles on our project teams.
• Manage the implementation of innovation to engineering processes focused on efficiency tools and technology.
• Cultivate, facilitate, and guide technical execution best practices and documentation across departments.
• Manage the application of design-related quality reviews to the practices of the business line.
• Identify and develop future technical staff.
• Work with Human Resources and staff to identify, prepare, communicate, and monitor performance plans for employees with areas of needed improvement.
• Fosters a creative cross-discipline, cross-office, and cross-GP mentality within technical teams, enabling them to be better leveraged as a training tool and to be the seam for cross-selling knowledge adoption.
• Facilitate identification of goals, objectives, and deliverables within established consistent frameworks from team to team.
• Establishes and maintains accountability for deliverables.
• Identifies and assigns appropriate development and maintenance of technical resources through teams specifications, design tools, technology, etc.
• Manages internal technical training for the department, collaborating with resource management to maintain training consistency, effectiveness, and vision.
• Manages continued training for technical staff, establishing a balance between internal and external training.
• Oversees training and development for potential Project Engineers and Technical Consultants.
• Fosters and grows mentorship and coaching platform for the departments technical career track.
• Fosters a thought leadership mentality at all levels and positions across the department.
• Identifies and communicates market trends in the business line.
• Responsible for strategically maintaining and communicating relevant opportunities for industry involvement, including societies and conference attendance.
• Initiates coordination with appropriate business line leadership and department leadership to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to our technical business.
• Sets direction by developing annual goals for improving technical business within the department.
• Regularly meets with Department Managers, Project Directors, and Project Managers to coordinate staffing needs, performance, and proper utilization of staff.
• Supports Regional Office development and technical resource coordination.
• Supports sales and marketing efforts for Department-specific projects.
• Demonstrates creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in anticipating and solving problems.
• Recommends changes in basic structure and organization of the department to meet growth strategies and long-term department objectives.
• Collaborates with technical staff to drive industry focus and strategically plan for involvement to obtain annual technical business goals.
• Drive a culture of quality and continual improvement.
• Facilitate the departments design, non-conformance, and corrective action process.
• Identify and develop corrective actions associated with non-conformance trends in the department.
• Coordinate with the Quality Manager to provide internal audit support, including the development of corrective actions to address audit findings.
• Assess the effectiveness of corrective actions and develop alternatives as necessary.
• Responsible for the recruitment, development, training, and retention of staff.
• Responsible for conducting performance evaluations for department staff.
• Provide leadership guidance and instruction to the department.
• Responsible for interpreting the organizations policies, purposes, and goals to staff.
• Responsible for overall QA/QC process adherence.
• Enforce compliance with company and site safety policies.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in a related field and 7 years of related professional experience required.
• Demonstrated technical ability internally and externally.
• Proven leadership in developing and implementing vision that has brought positive impact.
• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to influence, lead, and manage change thoughtfully and positively.
• Ability to clearly and effectively present complex information to all levels of employees, management, and clients.
• Ability to handle difficult situations with tact, poise, and discernment.
• Proven collaboration, facilitation, and organization problem-solving skills in previous roles.
• Professional Engineer (PE) License Required.

Compensation

The expected compensation range for this position is $150,000.00 - $405,000.00 per year. The expected compensation range is based on a number of factors, including but not limited to individual education, qualifications, prior work experience, and work location. The total annual compensation package will consist of a base salary and eligibility to participate in our discretionary year-end incentive bonus program.

Benefits

Our extensive benefits package takes care of you so that you can focus on doing great work. From insurance and disability to time off and wellness programs, we provide the tools to meet your needs. As part of being 100% employee-owned, eligible employees participate in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) in addition to our 401k retirement program. For more information, please visit the Benefits & Wellness page.

Job Details

• Job Title: Technical Manager
• Primary Location: US-CA-Brea
• Schedule: Full-time
• Travel: Yes (10% of the time)
• Req ID: 260387
• Job Hire Type: Experienced
• LI-KJ GFS NA