Adv Network Design Eng 2

Job Purpose : Maintains engineering department operations by maintaining purchasing processes; monitoring and awarding organization-wide service contracts; providing administrative support; managing staff.Duties :

• Accomplishes engineering human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.
• Achieves engineering operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change.
• Meets engineering financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Maintains purchasing process of engineering cost centers by formulating department policy and procedure; troubleshooting accounts payable problems with vendors and financial services; supervising storeroom purchasing personnel; maintaining inventory control; analyzing costs of capital purchases; maintaining audit documentation.
• Monitors organization-wide service contracts by controlling contract preparation and review processes; obtaining required signatures; meeting renewal dates; negotiating contracts; authorizing payments; verifying service completion and accuracy of charges.
• Maintains department computer network system by determining hardware and software needs; making purchasing recommendations to information systems; loading software; correcting software problems; training personnel in the use of programs; setting up data bases; overseeing data entry; anticipating and planning for system expansion.
• Completes operations requirements of storeroom by providing clerical support for processing of purchasing documents; acting as contact person for payment problems with vendors and accounts payable; providing computer support for inventory system; ensuring adherence to purchasing policies and procedures.
• Identifies customer service requirements, both actual and anticipated by active personal contact and rapport with potential and actual customers and other persons in a position to understand service requirements.
• Improves quality results by studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes; implementing changes.
• Improves employee competence by providing educational resources; balancing work requirements with learning opportunities; evaluating the application of learning to changes in work results.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.Skills / Qualifications : Management Proficiency, Staffing, Developing Budgets, Managing Profitability, Planning, Software Testing, Client Relationships, Results Driven, Technical Zeal, Dealing with Complexity, Problem Solving