Engineering Business Development 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 past professional experiences and industry relationships, along with Design Group’s engineering and construction offerings to expand our presence by developing client relationships and project opportunities. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team in the design and execution of food and beverage, life science, consumer goods sector manufacturing projects for our clients. We seek a passionate, high achieving professional who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, entrepreneurial environment. A leader, mentor, coach with infectious enthusiasm who lifts others to his/her level and exhibits uncompromising dedication to client welfare. A subject matter expert who understands manufacturing and distribution operations and can work with Clients to develop diverse solutions to their problems.

You also need to meet client needs and guide them in industry leading best practices for complex projects that require the integration of architecture, regulatory compliance, essential process engineering, packaging integration, and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering. You will need to be actively involved in the execution and be able to lead all phases of design which includes feasibility studies, planning, concept development, scope definition, detailed design, and construction documentation.

Responsibilities

• As a senior leader in the firm, you will be expected to help secure new engagements as you begin to understand how we operate, our key areas of strength, how we price our services, etc.
• Develop a plan and approach required to engage new client relationships and opportunities
• Lead and/or manage multiple projects in either the Food & Beverage, Life Science, Industrial or Consumer Goods market sector. 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 Project Managers and Project Engineers to help grow the Design Group team.
• Leverage the extensive Design Group engineering team to deliver successful projects
• Consistently seek new value-add opportunities for clients and Design Group
• 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 design and service delivery method and processes
• Build and sustain long term client and internal relationships
• Participate actively in relevant industry organization events and conferences

What You’ll Bring

• 10 years of operational & engineering consulting experience in the food and beverage, life science, or consumer goods manufacturing sectors
• Demonstrated experience leading successful conceptual design efforts.
• Demonstrated client development experience and excellent presentation skills. Experience in design, and qualification of manufacturing and distribution facilities ranging from pilot to full-scale production plants
• Familiarly with GMP manufacturing design, including process technology evaluation, capacity analysis, GMP environmental classification, and operational analysis a plus
• 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 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, preferred area of study Engineering, Construction Management, or 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.