Mechanical National Lead - OnSite Energy %26 Power (California)

The Technical Manager is responsible for establishing consistency and direction in our technical groups through leadership, direction, and oversight of the technical staff. They will position Burns & McDonnell as a technical leader through establishing market trends and opportunities and providing direction for annual goals to improve technical excellence. The primary mission for the Technical Manager is to foster a culture where technical excellence is valued, recognized, and rewarded for the importance it brings to our organization.

• Manage the development of technical staff and provides guidance that continues to promote technical staff into leadership roles on our project teams.
• Manages the implementation of innovation to engineering processes, focused on efficiency, tools, and technology.
• Cultivates, facilitates, and guides technical execution best practices and documentation across department.
• Manage the application of design-related quality reviews to the practices of the business line.
• Identify and develop future technical staff.
• Work with Human Resources and staff to identify, prepare, communicate, and monitor performance plans for employees with areas of needed improvement. Fosters a creative, cross-discipline, cross-office, and cross-GP mentality within technical teams, enabling them to be better leveraged as a training tool and to be the seam for cross selling knowledge adoption.
• Facilitates identification of goals, objectives, and deliverables within established consistent framework from team to team.
• Establishes and maintains accountability for deliverables.
• Identifies and assigns appropriate development and maintenance of technical resources through teams (specifications, design tools, technology, etc.)
• Manages internal technical training for department, collaborating with resource management to maintain training consistency, effectiveness, and vision.
• Manages continued training for technical staff, establishing balance between internal and external training.
• Oversees training and development for potential Project Engineers and Technical Consultants.
• Fosters and grows mentorship and coaching platform for department technical career track.
• Fosters thought leadership mentality at all levels and positions across department.
• Identifies and communicates market trends in business line.
• Responsible for strategically maintaining and communicating relevant opportunities for industry involvement, including societies and conference attendance.
• Initiates coordination with appropriate business line leadership and department leadership to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to our technical business.
• Sets direction by developing annual goals for improving technical business within department.
• Regularly meet with Department Managers, Project Directors, and Project Managers to coordinate staffing needs, performance, and proper utilization of staff.
• Support Regional Office development and technical resource coordination.
• Support sales and marketing efforts for Department specific projects.
• Demonstrate creativity, foresight, and mature judgement in anticipating and solving problems.
• Recommend changes in basic structure and organization of the department to meet growth strategies and long-term department objectives.
• Collaborates with technical staff to drive industry focus and strategically plan for involvement to obtain annual technical business goals.
• Drive a culture of quality and continual improvement.
• Facilitate the department design non-conformance and corrective action process.
• Identify and develop corrective actions associated with non-conformance trends in the department.
• Coordinate with quality manager to provide internal audit support, including the development of corrective actions to address audit findings.
• Assess effectiveness of corrective actions and develop alternatives, as necessary.
• Responsible for the recruitment, development, training, and retention of staff.
• Responsible for conducting performance evaluations for department staff.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and instruction to the department.
• Responsible for interpreting the organization's policies, purposes, and goals to staff.
• Responsible for overall QA/QC process adherence.
• Enforce compliance with company and site safety policies.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards