Director, Port & Marine Terminals

Worley; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 213,767 - 314,364; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering firm located in Vancouver is seeking a seasoned professional to lead business development efforts, manage client relationships, and oversee project execution. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in civil/structural engineering, team leadership, and effective communication abilities. The role offers a competitive salary and is dedicated to fostering a culture of safety and efficiency.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant discipline experience.
• 5+ years of project/team leadership experience.
• Experience in marine inspections.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate business development efforts.
• Engage with clients and maintain stakeholder relationships.
• Oversee team recruitment and performance management.

Skills

Client relationship management

Project management

Technical engineering knowledge

Budgeting and cost control

Effective communication

Education

Degree in civil/structural engineering

Job description

Overview

Worley Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Worley Consulting is a global group of consultants, scientists, engineers, and digital experts dedicated to solving the world’s critical infrastructure, environmental, energy, and resource challenges. We partner with our customers to find solutions that create value over the life of their assets and implement new technologies to run assets more efficiently, secure social license, support local communities, and accelerate the energy transition.

Purpose
Coordinate sales efforts with Worley’s inside/outside Sales teams, participate in business development efforts and update calls.

Responsibilities

• Business Development
• Actively engage with internal and external clients for business development and coordinate the work with other disciplines.
• Prepare or assist in preparing proposals, execution strategy, design work cost estimate, and project scheduling.
• Maintain staff profiles and resumes, track existing capabilities and strategically address future customer capability requirements.
• Encourage positive working relationships with external parties such as customers, suppliers, and contractors. May be involved in networking, negotiations, strategic alliancing, and cost savings efforts.
• Maintain pricing records reflecting efforts to complete project activities.
• Business Operations
• Assist in recruiting, coaching and performance management of the team.
• Attend project coordination meetings and liaise with project team members, clients, sub-consultants, contractors, and regulatory and environmental approval agencies.
• Monitor project progress through site visits and meetings with clients and contractors.
• Actively encourage and support a safety-oriented culture.
• Participate in budgeting activities and manage operations within the approved budget.
• Control staffing levels, organizational structure, and monitors project discipline structures.
• Oversee engineering software licensing costs, employee utilization, and skill development.
• Ensure discipline technical work and team activities meet all health, safety, environmental, and security requirements.
• Participate in setting the strategic goals for the team and executes strategic initiatives.
• Project Delivery
• Facilitate meeting project requirements with discipline guidelines, programs, and management of project allocated resources. May participate in project execution strategy and planning.
• Drive innovative solutions, technology advances and methods to effectively deal with working out of sequence. May work with Project Management teams to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability. Review and authorize work done by direct reports.
• Team Leadership and Development
• Oversee programs for technical competency and quality and monitor technical competency of teams.
• Ensure team member adherence to company processes, generally accepted engineering and design practices, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.
• Support global standardization and use of drawing and document templates.
• Assure the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful.
• Use local/global standards to support technical excellence. Appoint senior team members to conduct checking and perform technical peer reviews and manage execution.
• Travel as required for various field programs.

What You Will Bring

• Technical and Industry Experience
• 15+ years of relevant discipline experience and 5+ years in project/team leadership.
• Experience leading a team, including recruitment, mentoring, coaching and performance management.
• Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining strong client relations.
• Ability to communicate effectively and to proactively respond to time-sensitive issues.
• Demonstrated experience in marine inspections.
• Strong background in ports and marine civil/structural work. Experienced understanding of regulations, codes, and industry standard practices.
• Maintains strong relationships and works well with clients and contractors, establishes and maintains trust.
• Skilled in estimating project costs and proposal writing. Adept at budgeting and cost control.
• Experience in project management, risk management, quality, procurement, or construction execution.
• Works with self-initiated interaction with senior level management and self-initiated technical guidance. Receives administrative direction based on organizational policies and objectives.
• Effectively communicates and presents complex proposals and reports to senior level management and clients. Ability to persuade and influence others. Participative management style with a cooperative team approach.
• Organize information from many sources and retain per the prescribed format and policies. Functional awareness of discipline tools. Conversant in the interrelationship of tools within the discipline, analytics and modeling, and cross discipline data centric methods.
• Drives safe and sustainable engineering outcomes throughout the asset lifecycle via the application of SEAL.
• Act as a role-model and demonstrate a commitment to safety, personal well-being and a pro-active approach to continuously improving health, safety and environmental performance. Assumes hands-on management and implementation of all relevant company HSE requirements.
• Interpersonal
• Builds appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization; uses diplomacy and tact; accessible and approachable in relationships with others; communicates clearly, accurately, and consistently both verbally and in written matters. Employs the principles of active listening and encourages feedback from others.
• Teamwork
• Enjoys working in a high calibre team with high visibility to senior stakeholders. Able to effectively work and liaise with multiple teams and stakeholders, capable of prioritizing workloads and helping colleagues achieve team goals.
• Action Orientation
• Achieves results set by self and others, meets timelines, pushes to achieve stretch goals, and demonstrates enthusiasm, persistence and tenacity.
• Breaks down work into executable tasks. Acts accountable for work produced and ensures it is right the first time.
• Intellectual Capacity
• Deals with new concepts and complexity comfortably. Examines problems carefully and thoroughly and understands their interdependencies.

Required

• The ideal candidate will have a degree in civil/structural engineering from an accredited post-secondary institution.
• Registered or eligibility for registration with Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia as a professional engineer.

For applicants based in the province of British Columbia, the salary range is $213,767 to $314,364.
No agency representation or submissions will be recognized for this vacancy. Worley is committed to providing a fair and equitable hiring process for all applicants, including accommodations for persons with disabilities. If you require any accommodations, please contact [e-mail]

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