Director

About Us:

BW Design Group is a fully integrated architecture, engineering, construction, system integration, and consulting firm committed to helping our clients realize their most critical goals from Strategy to Commercialization. As the only firm born from a manufacturing technology company to become an independent and fully integrated firm, we combine deep domain expertise in the manufacturing environment with an approach that is built to serve the dynamic needs of our clients. Rooted in our distinct culture of Truly Human Leadership, we cultivate the leaders who will define tomorrow and partner with our clients in the food & beverage, life sciences, industrial, and advanced technology industries to build the future of manufacturing and technology.

 

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

 

Job Description:

Director

Who You’ll Work With

You will join one of our 45 offices in the US, be part of a committed team of over 1500 professionals, and work in teams and directly with our clients doing work that is shaping the world around us. You will be welcomed into a rapidly growing business and team and empowered to make an impact. You will be valued, cared for, and challenged on your path to becoming a world-class professional consultant and surrounded by leaders who are committed to creating an environment that enables you to realize your own success and fulfillment.

When you join Design Group as a Director you are joining a team that will challenge you and position you for growth. In this role, you will work with a team of industry experts to help the world’s leading companies solve their most difficult problems.

What You’ll Do

As a Director, you will be responsible for leveraging your professional experiences, design and construction knowledge, and industry relationships, along with Design Group’s design and construction capabilities to grow our market share and create value by developing integrated design build opportunities and client relationships. You will lead teams of multi-disciplinary design, preconstruction, and construction delivery professionals in the development and engagement of projects in the Food Beverage, Life Sciences, Household Personal Care, Advanced Technology, Data Center Mission Critical, and EV/Battery Market Sectors.

You will be a passionate, high achieving professional who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, entrepreneurial environment.  As a leader, mentor, coach, you will bring infectious enthusiasm for the business of design and construction, who lifts others to his/her level and exhibits uncompromising dedication to client welfare. As a practitioner of design-build delivery with a Manufacturer’s Mindset™, you will shape the built environment for manufacturing and technology by partnering our talented teams with clients to realize their capital strategies. 

You will be capable of understanding client business case and operational requirements and responsible to structure the delivery for complex projects involving the design, construction, automation, commissioning, and operation of facility, process, packaging, logistics, power, and water/wastewater components of manufacturing and technology projects.   You will engage the client, our internal teams, subconsultants, subcontractors, OEMs, authorities having jurisdiction, and local communities in development of the project, entitlements, and contracts for our work.

Responsibilities

• You will be a key team member and leader driving new engagements with target clients in our aligned market segments, realizing opportunity through positioning to enhance our right-to-win, deployment of our integrated design build model, and value creation methodologies. 
• Intake new project opportunity assignments, prepare opportunity assessment and capture plans, and develop project delivery plans and approaches required to engage new project opportunities and client relationships.  Translate those efforts into proposals, contracts, presentations, and other supporting documentation to engage projects and the supporting delivery team. 
• Lead and/or manage multiple project development efforts in the Food Beverage, Life Sciences, Household Personal Care, Advanced Technology, Data Center Mission Critical, and EV/Battery Market Sectors.  In this role, you will leverage your technical skills, expertise, and leadership skills to successfully deliver services and/or projects that meet or exceed the client’s expectations.  In this role it is expected that you will be providing project leadership to other Design Group professionals. 
• Support the development and recruiting of planning, design, and construction team members with design-build knowledge, skills, and competencies. 
• Leverage teams that combine Design Group resources, subconsultants, subcontractors, and OEMs to drive the right delivery and value creation model for the client and Design Group. 
• Consistently seek new value-add opportunities for Design Group and our clients.
• Lead with an uplifting entrepreneurial spirit.
• Inspire excellence in all aspects of performance and project execution.
• Display enthusiasm and excitement for client projects that lifts project teams to high levels of job satisfaction.
• Innovate and improve project delivery through planning, pre-construction, design consultant, partnering agreements and analysis of processes and procedures.
• Build and sustain a consistent book of design-build engagements developing long term client and internal relationships along the way.
• Participate actively in relevant industry organization events and conferences.

What You’ll Bring

• 10 years of pre-construction planning and design build delivery experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading design build project development and delivery efforts.
• Demonstrated client development experience and excellent presentation skills. 
• Experience in pre-construction planning, design management, and construction.
• Familiarly with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) design, construction, and qualification, including process technology evaluation, capacity analysis, GMP environmental classification, and operational analysis.
• Knowledge of production capacity modeling and assessment, manufacturing flow analysis, manufacturing flow diagrams, and process logic diagrams.
• Knowledge of Validation, Commissioning and Quality programs as they relate to design, construction, project, and manufacturing requirements.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to multi-task on simultaneous projects.
• Travel as required for client development and project execution.
• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.

Our culture and commitment to our people is what sets us apart. We foster an environment of mutual respect, integrity, and unconditional interest in the individual and collective success of our professionals. Our model and entrepreneurial mindset offer a rewarding, challenging, and highly flexible path. As Director you will build a meaningful and fulfilling career with the support of professional development resources and mentorships including our First Year Experience program, Individual Development Plans, and Career Path resources and tools. You will be surrounded by exceptional talent who will support your development as both a world-class engineer and a highly effective leader. Feel like you're on the path to becoming a Director, but you're not quite there yet? We'd love to connect with you to see if we can take you from where you are today and grow you into a Design Group Engineering Consultant. #LI-BH1

 

At Barry-Wehmiller we recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job.  If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying.  We know that our differences often can bring about innovation, excellence and meaningful work—therefore, people from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply to our positions.  Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodations during the interview process. ​

Barry-Wehmiller is an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V This organization uses E-Verify.

 

Applicants may be subject to pre-employment screening which may include drug screening, reference checks, employment verifications, background screening and/or skills assessments.

 

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