ResponsibilitiesPosition Summary:
In addition to responsibility for performing Engineer 6 level duties on project work, this position carries added responsibility for leading team efforts to establish, implement, maintain and improve SSOE's inter-department and intra-discipline work processes for a specific discipline to ensure technological excellence and quality within the discipline across the corporation. It also carries responsibility for working with the other Masters to facilitate similar efforts on multi-discipline issues. This position is one of technical leadership and facilitation at a corporate level as well as within a particular SBU, and will generally be filled by promotion of qualified individuals currently classified as a Department Manager or Engineer 6.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Works with other Masters and Department Managers to identify Discipline and Department technical training needs.
- Nurtures and promotes inter-discipline, inter-department, inter-SBU/Division, and inter-office cooperation, collaboration, and initiatives to optimize and improve work and staff sharing processes by participating in multi-discipline strategy sessions.
- Works with other Masters and Department Managers to establish, implement and improve discipline and department work processes and methods; to standardize practices as appropriate; and to identify and optimize the purchase and application of discipline resources such as reference materials, software, etc.
- Assists Director, Corporate Design & Quality, SBU, Division and Department Management in articulating discipline capability requirements in support of strategic and business objectives, and to assist in identifying appropriate hiring, sub-consulting, and training and development activities to attain the required technical capabilities to meet those objectives.
- Identifies and champions discipline innovations, best practices and strategic opportunities, working with other Masters and the Director, Corporate Design & Quality.
- Participates in the provision of high-level consulting services to clients.
- Provides technical support to business development efforts.
- Participates in civic, discipline and professional activities and associations, with technical publication credits desired.
- Acts as a mentor, coach, tutor and resource for less experienced staff.
- Assists in identifying and keeping centralized up-to-date records of staff capabilities and skills.
- Performs Engineer 6 duties and responsibilities on billable client work.
- Travel required.
Qualifications- Must have a four (4) year engineering degree (BS or higher is preferred)
- Full registration required
- Three (3) or more years with SSOE as an Engineer 6, or fifteen (15) or more years of related practical experience with former employer(s)
- Good communications, facilitation, and team leadership skills
- Broad knowledge of their discipline and A/E industry as a whole
- Project financial knowledge with a proven positive performance record.
