Description The Transmission & Distribution (T&D) global practice is seeking a dynamic, accomplished leader to serve as the T&D Department Manager for our Albuquerque office. This critical leadership role is responsible for the overall managerial direction, strategic growth, and operational success of all T&D personnel across all business lines, rather than a single technical specialty.
The Department Manager will cultivate a high-performance, collaborative team encompassing substations, transmission lines, and project services. The selected candidate will drive business development, recruit and retain top-tier talent, and direct department operations in a dynamic and profitable manner. This role centers on the firm's core values of safety, client satisfaction, integrity, and outstanding service.
Key Responsibilities People Leadership, Culture & Development
- Lead by example and foster a dynamic department with a focus on creating an atmosphere and environment for all.
- Actively embody and foster a culture based on MacCulture principles, quality, diversity and inclusion, team cohesion, camaraderie, ownership, innovation, and teamwork.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of engineers and designers through effective recruitment, coaching, performance management, and regular check-ins.
- Provide leadership within the ABQ office as well as within the SWR footprint, ensuring consistency, collaboration, equitable support, and in-person intra-departmental coordination.
- Serve as a mentor and coach to the team you directly manage, advocate for staff, and support individualized career development and growth plans.
- Identify training needs, assist in the development of training, and support execution of training and mentorship programs that strengthen technical excellence and EPC delivery skills.
- Organize, lead, and conduct the annual performance appraisal process, and work with Human Resources to prepare, communicate, and monitor performance improvement plans as needed.
Recruiting, Interviewing, Hiring, Onboarding & Retention
- Proactively recruit top college graduates and experienced engineers and designers through coordinated efforts with Human Resources, staff referrals, universities, and industry networks.
- Interview with intention, assess and hire prospective candidates while remaining diligent to uncover and combat unconscious bias throughout the interview process.
- Oversee onboarding for interns, new graduates, experienced hires, transfers, and converted contract employees transitioning into the business line.
- Support Human Resources on educational partnerships and internship programs and establish measures that increase staff retention.
Project Execution & Technical Excellence
- Serve as a senior technical advisor on projects across the region and support QA/QC processes as needed to advance department staff and maintain delivery excellence.
- Monitor project performance and take corrective actions to ensure targets for quality, schedule, and budget are met.
- Support compliance with the T&D Quality Management System and advocate for safety within the T&D business lines, driving a culture focused on safety and compliance with company and site safety policies.
- Encourage an innovation culture that challenges the norm and utilizes tools, technology, and processes to drive continuous improvement, engineering outcomes, and project efficiency.
- Collaborate with Burns & McDonnell India and cross-regional leadership to optimize resource planning and technical direction.
Strategic Planning, Business Growth & Collaboration
- Set policies, procedures, and strategic goals for the department and contribute to the development and execution of the business plan, including SWOT analysis and vision setting.
- Be proactive in thought leadership to enhance profitability and growth and actively participate in conferences and related activities to promote the firm's capabilities.
- Partner with Marketing, Projects Director, Account Management, Project Managers, and other key leadership to pursue opportunities, support sales strategies, strengthen client relationships, and evaluate alignment with regional priorities.
- Proactively share information with the local team, regional partners, national business line leadership, and other department managers to share best practices and continue process improvements.
- Collaborate on shared client work with other T&D departments and regional offices to reinforce One Burns & McDonnell.
Operational, Resource & Financial Oversight
- Establish and proactively communicate the vision, expectations, requirements, processes, and guidelines needed to meet department, global practice, and company objectives.
- Regularly review staff utilization to ensure employees have a clear development path, are supported appropriately, and are leveraged to their strengths and skill sets.
- Lead coordination of work in the department, including making assignments and reviewing performance to ensure efficient, cost-effective utilization of staff.
- Ensure profitable and sustainable growth of the department through effective staffing, workload balance, chargeability oversight, overhead labor investment, and project performance monitoring.
- Lead continuous improvement efforts in delivery efficiency, processes, organizational consistency, and implementation of project management systems and specialized market offerings, including EPC and program management solutions.
Quality & Safety
- Serve as the primary advocate for safety within the branch office, fostering a proactive safety culture.
- Champion quality control initiatives by coordinating technical reviews and verifying compliance with corporate policies.
- Provide high-level technical advisory and quality oversight on complex, multi-discipline projects.
Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, or a related technical discipline from an accredited program.
- Minimum seven (7) years of professional experience in transmission, distribution, substation, or project management.
- Demonstrated success in leading multi-discipline teams, managing budgets, and executing complex T&D projects.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with a proven ability to present complex information clearly to clients and executive leadership.
- Strong interpersonal, project management, and strategic thinking skills, along with the ability to manage change.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license is highly preferred.
This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.
Job Engineering
Primary Location US-NM-Albuquerque
Schedule: Full-time
Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time
Req ID: 265373
Job Hire Type Experienced #LI-JNH #T&D
