Director of Engineering

As the Director of Engineering at Aitken, you will oversee all aspects & responsibilities of the company’s Design Assist Group’s engineering and sales efforts. The Director focuses on the continued structuring and operation of the engineering function as a cohesive unit; the prioritizing, conceptualizing and monitoring the day-to-day management of simultaneous projects related to conceptual design, analysis, interfacing and coordinating with sales and estimating persons; delivering optimized designs within time and budget constraints, and continuing to foster innovative solutions to the customer needs. The Director of Design Assist is a strong leader who fosters a team environment with a focus on providing solutions to a wide array of technical challenges while promoting a culture that empowers the team to think big. Supports and encourages “out of the box thinking” from the Group’s individuals.

Building Partnerships, People & Teams:

• Create and maintain partnerships with sales and estimating; pre-con and construction planning, on bids opportunities requiring engineering expertise. Participate in a partnership pulse survey and 60 day partner meetings in order to provide an executive summary demonstrating business needs are being met and the delivery of a transparent schedule.
• Teach, coach, motivate, provide technical direction and guidance and evaluate team. Sets department policy and operating procedures, resolves scheduling and resource conflicts, and reviews and approves major department programs and projects. Build a team highly skilled, cross-functional team, with bench depth, to support Design/Assist, construction engineering, construction design. Formulate long term objectives and standards of performance for the department.
• Align strategic objectives to the design/build team, guiding teams to develop solutions that build future capabilities.

Continuous Process Improvement/Design:

• ·Build, create and sustain a design review QA/QC processes that is documented on all major design deliverables. Conduct and provide quarterly audits of review templates.
• ·Develop a method to forecast the level of completion for design of jobs against the pull schedule. Provide a job matrix for complexity/schedule to ensure efficiency.
• ·Ensure the final work product is defendable, whether it is the most basic or most innovative solution for a given project.

Service Delivery:

• Provide construction engineering services when the company requires the department to manage/perform the engineering. Monitor engineering services through field pulse surveys, tracking number of incidents and monitoring budget to target.
• Manage connection engineering process for bids and for awarded projects. Monitor and report through the connection material and piece count budget. Validate informational milestones are met per PSAR/pull schedule.
• Accountable for ensuring rational approach to design alternatives / VG. Options through auditing and tracking of number of times engineering is proactively sought out by the business and/or our customers.
• Provide a competitive advantage by differentiating SS through utilization of design structure that will allow for more cost-effective solution, ensuring each hit rate on target jobs are meeting the companies expectations.
• Oversee erection procedures provided by third party erectors, reporting out the number of incidents as well as ensuring annual documented audit is completed and recorded in job file. #LI-KF1