Engineering Manager - Protection & Control | Build and Grow a New Team

Qualus is a power solutions firm focused on power infrastructure transformation, grid modernization, resiliency, security, and sustainability. The Protection & Control Engineering Manager will build and lead an engineering team, provide technical and operational oversight, support project delivery, develop client relationships, and help advance departmental and business development goals.

Responsibilities:

• Accomplishes human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures
• Achieves operational objectives by contributing engineering information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining administrative system improvements; implementing change
• Provide oversight, technical and procedural direction to ensure proper engineering processes are followed throughout projects
• Developing, nurturing and maintaining trusted relationships with senior level engineering, managers, and executives with current or prospective clients
• Ability to coordinate work with engineering offices where shared resources might reside
• Work with department to cross-train employees on multi-client standards for efficiency and scale, working towards more of a team concept
• Actively coordinate with Business Development to ensure a more consistent pipeline and backlog of workflow
• Confidently and comfortably present technical solutions to key customers respond in real time to technical concerns and answer questions in a knowledgeable articulate manner
• Delegating, planning, prioritizing, and forecast upcoming engineering requirements/needs including non-job-related training schedules
• Direct and/or participate in client meetings/job site visits to collect or deliver design and engineering data
• Provide technical support for quotes/estimating as it relates to engineering, project management and client management input
• Review and approve employee time sheets and expense statements for accuracy
• Ensure project cost, quality, and schedule requirements are met
• Conduct audits to ensure all design packages follow Qualus’ QA/QC process
• Oversee internal training program by identifying staff’s needs and coordinating resources that will perform training
• Attend Project Kickoff meetings to discuss in detail work scope, project specifications, budgets, schedules, and safety requirements with project team

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited school
• Minimum 5 years in management, within the energy sector
• Experience in Utility protection and control engineering
• Master's Degree in Engineering Management or MBA, is a plus
• Professional Engineering (PE) license, preferred