Key skills
Communication
About this role
Role Overview
- Assists the business development team in new project pursuits by providing input on RFPs/RFQs and participates in project interviews and presentations.
- Manages technical project process and scope of work within own discipline; reviews and tracks scope, schedule, and budgeted hours; finds and resolves all inconsistencies with project manager.
- Delegates tasks to project engineers and designers within own discipline as appropriate.
- Follows quality management process; conducts project reviews and approvals before all QA/QC reviews done by the technical authority.
- Builds and maintains strong client relations; able to understand and articulate project and design requirements, progress, challenges, and troubleshooting to clients and technical staff.
- Leads technical discussions and mechanical workgroups with project stakeholders as their trusted advisor, identifies key requirements, and adapts design accordingly to meet the project objectives.
- Coordinates well with all disciplines to fully integrate work and client requests into design.
- Acts as supervisor and resource to technical design team; supports and assists staff education, training, and development.
- Actively participates in the data center engineering/professional community to build personal knowledge, stay up-to-date date with new and upcoming requirements and technologies, and strives for professional growth (e.g. attends meetings / seminars / conferences and/or write articles for trade magazines.)
- Identifies opportunities to improve and standardize project deliverables (details, specifications etc.) across Stantec MCF business centers.
- Contributes to development of design guides, technical memos, calculation templates etc. as they pertain to data center design.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in mission critical/data center design concepts.
- Experience working on large scale projects with varied stakeholders.
- Comprehensive knowledge of engineering practices, concepts, principles, codes, and standards in own discipline and basic knowledge of practices and principals in other disciplines.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Able to conceptualize and develop solutions for multifaceted systems and interactions with varied disparate components.
- Strong communicator who effectively conveys scope, schedule, and budget to clients, co-workers, and technical teams (e.g. work plan, statement of work, and 2-way communication.)
- Adept at writing comprehensive reports, business correspondence, and procedural manuals.
- Proficient in applicable software (Autodesk, BIM 360, Revit, Trace 700). Working knowledge or proficiency in hydraulic modeling software (e.g. Pipe-Flo) and CFD software (e.g. Fluent, 6Sigma) preferred.
- Knowledge of the construction process and interaction with design.
- Equipped to analyze, problem solve, and train others; organized and attentive to detail; flexible and collaborative.
- Able to independently resolve complex problems within the engineer’s discipline.
- Accredited engineering degree or equivalent experience required.
- Minimum 10 years related industry experience preferred.
- Mission critical / data center experience required
- Registered professional engineer (PE) license or other professional certification based on expertise required.
Benefits
- Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans
- A wellness program
- Health saving accounts
- Flexible spending accounts
- 401(k) plan
- Employee stock purchase program
- Life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
- Short-term/long-term disability plans
- Emergency travel benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional membership fee coverage
- Paid family leave
- Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year
- Eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year
- Eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law)