Director, Overhead Transmission Line Design

Position Overview

Power Your Future with Qualus in our Transmission Line department as a Director of Engineering. The Director will own a number of critical business processes across Qualus ' standard ownership domains. Ownership implies a responsibility for the proper and effective execution and management of business functions. Tasks related to the execution of these functions will likely be delegated to subordinate employees, however, the responsibility for the overall performance of owned functions falls directly on the Director of Engineering. This is a professional position responsible for managing, training, coordinating, and providing oversight of overhead transmission engineering. This position is also responsible for implementing best engineering methods, pursuing business development opportunities and maintaining good relationships with internal and external stakeholders. The role will provide technical guidance and management to engineering teams, supporting established organization objectives by developing goals and strategies, and overseeing group financials. The successful candidate will possess a broad, extensive, and deep understanding of both engineering principles and management practices and demonstrate the ability to apply that knowledge and experience to all aspects of operations.
Responsibilities

This is a professional position responsible for directing, training, coordinating, and providing oversight of engineering operations. This position is also responsible for implementing best engineering methods, pursuing business development opportunities and maintaining good relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Assignments will include providing technical guidance to engineering teams and top management, supporting established organization objectives by developing goals and strategies, and overseeing group financials. The successful candidate will possess a broad, extensive, and deep understanding of both engineering principles, business practices, and demonstrate the ability to apply that knowledge and experience to all aspects of operations. Additional responsibilities include:

- Functional leader of service line

- Responsible for service line financials

- Maintains good relationships with internal and external stakeholders

- Implements best practice engineering methods, develops training programs and performs training for service line employees

- Interacts with other service lines to bid on and complete projects, cross train employees, share best practices

- Responsible for technical performance of service line, provides technical guidance to engineering teams and top management

- Support established organizational objectives by developing goals and strategies for service line

- Create/develop drawing packages for bidding, construction, as-built, and submittal purposes

- Ensure service line has tools to be successful: software, hardware, field, etc.

- Adheres to and further develops company vision for entire service line

- Shares responsibility for employee satisfaction and engagement

- Finds and implements ways to improve cost-efficiency

- Effective verbal and written communication including technical writing skills

- Assists with the development and preparation of project scopes, budgets and schedules

- Remain knowledgeable of development in regulations, laws, standards, and best practices applicable to our functional area, including but not limited to, Standards of Conduct, RUS Design Guidelines, the National Electric Safety Code, and General Order 95

- Provide technical direction and assistance to others, as required

- Sets engineering policy and practices to be implemented company wide and ensures that QA/QC policies are adhered to

- Provides support to business development or pursuit activities

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or other similarly related engineering disciplines

- Registered as a Professional Engineer

- Ten (10) or mor