Assistant Department Manager - Substation (San Juan, PR)

The Assistant Department Manager is responsible for the managerial direction and leadership of interns, designers and assistant-level engineers within the Substation Department of the T&D Global Practice in the Puerto Rico office. This position involves leadership and technical execution with direct involvement in projects.

Specific areas of responsibility include the following, with other duties as assigned by Substation Department Management and Senior Management\:

• Advocate for safety within the department.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and direction to the team.
• Coordinate team and mentor assignments of engineers with the Substation department manager, project managers and project engineers for the efficient, cost-effective utilization of staff. Approve timecards and ensure that billable time goals are met.
• Demonstrate creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in anticipating and solving problems.
• Responsible for fostering a healthy and vibrant employee-owner culture within the team through the leverage of sound team-building practices, the promotion and administration of effective conflict resolution, the promotion of ownership mentality, a healthy work-life balance, and community engagement.
• Assist the Substation Department Management team in developing business initiatives to improve profitability and/or efficiencies.
• Actively foster a culture based on our MacCulture principles, quality, diversity and inclusion, and team cohesion and camaraderie.
• Recruit, develop, train, and retain interns, designers, and engineers.
• Review employee performance and conduct development meetings (90-day and annual performance appraisals, mid-year reviews, coaching sessions, performance improvement, etc.).
• Identify training needs for engineers and support/develop training programs for the department. Collaborating with other departments on shared training.
• Assist with developing new clients and maintaining existing clients.
• Assist with developing and reviewing proposals.
• Develop and foster an innovative culture that challenges the norm and utilizes tools, technology, and processes to drive continuous improvement and efficiency.
• Provide input into areas of concern and direction to enhance the achievement of productivity goals, budgets, and quality.
• Interpret policies, purposes, and goals of the organization to staff.
• Work closely with project teams to ensure deliverables and services meet client expectations and follow internal QA/QC guidelines and processes. Perform design quality reviews.
• Develop design deliverables for greenfield and brownfield high-voltage (13kV to 765kV) electrical power substations.
• Serve as a technical liaison to clients; support field inspections for substation facilities.
• Meet and correspond with clients and external partners to build and maintain key relationships.