What are the responsibilities and job description for the Structural Engineering Director position at Primera Engineers, Ltd.?
Responsible for ensuring projects within the civil / structural group, maintain compliance with the most current codes and industry standards and best practices for each project. This position will involve early design decision and direction, development of necessary quality improvements and infrastructure improvements, and acts as the QA / QC lead for all projects, reviewing projects and advising on needed changes prior to project submissions. The engineering director is a senior position, and as such is expected to offer excellent client communication skills and will often act as a project manager for Primera. Finally, the engineering director is involved in development of proposals, market growth, and strategic planning.
WHO WE ARE
We're a people-first organization. We value knowledge and learning. We believe in the power of connection and collaboration and we seek to build relationships that mean something. We employ some of the best and brightest in the industry and we work hard to maintain a culture that our people can be proud of.
WORKING FOR PRIMERA Our Utilities division is a talented team of experts working together to provide solutions that are vital to energizing our future. We provide full-service electrical, civil, and structural engineering services to support electric and gas utilities nationwide. We're also fortunate to support wind farms and renewables; transmissions systems; and university and industrial facilities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities :
- Manage medium complexity non-prime or prime multidiscipline projects with subconsultants.
- Ensure compliance with client and internal management system requirements and implement project delivery procedures.
- Proficiency in Primera's financial and project management applications.
- Advanced knowledge of loss prevention practices.
- Assist with initial scoping of projects and attend client meetings to present approach options.
- Ensure projects are compliant with department technical standards (specs, details, etc.).
- Develop training sessions for department employees, bringing in industry speakers, and vendors to disseminate trainings on current trends in the utilities industry.
- Maintain involvement and oversight of projects, from initial conceptual design and study phases to project completion.
- Team with group and / or department manager to develop the training plans for department personnel, including development / sourcing of training materials and seminars coordinating the required trainings with approval of the division manager.
- Responsible for QA / QC duties for projects, ensuring that Primera quality standards are met prior to stamping and signing of documents.
- Responsible for ensuring the group has best technologies to meet evolving needs of clients.
- Develop and maintain updated professional resource libraries well as department software tools.
- Involved with technical committees and memberships, and submit technical papers to journals.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :
Education and Experience :
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