Develop a project engineering team to outperform customer project activities such as Task On-Time Delivery, Technical Maturity, and On-Budget Expenses, while maintaining sustainable customer billability. Execute talent development activities as well as performance assessments to identify top performers and enable them with individual development plans.
Key Responsibilities:
- Customer and Stakeholder Engagement:
- Establish professional relationships and communications with customers, Program Directors, Operational Leaders, Project Managers, project engineering discipline leaders, concept & estimation, ISC, and Install team leaders.
- Team Leadership:
- Provide day-to-day consultation, leadership, and direction to the systems engineering group comprising professional engineering staff.
- Assign Engineering Supervisors and engineers to projects and manage day-to-day resource conflicts.
- Project and Process Management:
- Drive a culture of change identification, change management, technical risk identification & mitigation, and value engineering ideas, techniques & solutions within and across the system & project engineering organization.
- Drive efficiencies in the project execution methodology to reduce cost and/or increase the value delivered to the customer. Develop and enhance work processes and procedures as required.
- Project Health & Readiness Compliance:
- Actively review, monitor, and control the projects health & readiness compliance from the engineering perspective for the phase gate reviews.
- Ensure 100% compliance to phase gate reviews and ensure all deliverables are submitted to the customer on time.
- Resource & Budget Management:
- Ensure that required prerequisites (e.g., design inputs, tools, documentation, deliverables, schedule, budget, low-cost engineering content) are in place prior to commencing the work.
- Drive billability of the engineering group, project cost forecast accuracy, monitor engineering hours & financials to ensure projects are completed within the agreed engineering cost budget.
- Standardization and Improvement:
- Ensure common methods, procedures, techniques, tools, and products as agreed by the knowledge communities/Leaders are being effectively applied and provide feedback for future improvement.
- Stakeholder & Risk Management:
- Establish and maintain good working relationships with numerous personnel in management and engineering.
- Escalate customer feedback, internal/external risks, and schedule changes within the organization and work closely with Project Managers/Program Managers for possible mitigation.
- Customer Feedback & Compliance:
- Ensure customer feedback is collected on all IGS projects at various customer touchpoints (KOM, design, Training, SAT, etc.) during project engineering execution.
- Ensure project teams work in compliance with quality/safety procedures. Responsible for adherence to HSE Policy and Guidelines.
Qualifications:
- Experience:
- 8+ years of industrial project engineering experience managing engineering teams.
- Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechatronics, Robotics, Control Automation, Electrical, Electronics, or a related field.
- Master's degree in Engineering, Project Management, or MBA (desired).
- Skills & Expertise:
- Strong project management and interpersonal skills.
- Proven ability to develop engineering teams to deliver challenging project milestones.
- Strong financial team sustainability and talent development focus.
Competencies:
- Project Management: Experienced Level
- Communication: Experienced Level
- Finance Acumen: Intermediate Level
- People Management: Experienced Level
- Collaboration & Teamwork: Experienced Level
- English: Experienced Level
