Position Overview:
Job Purpose:
To lead and oversee highly complex engineering projects ensuring that work delivered and materials used are in full compliance with safety, engineering, and applicable Codes and Standards.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Plans multiple highly complex projects simultaneously, tracking and delivering them on time and within budget.
- Leads group of project engineers, engineering consultants and technicians, exercising considerable independence in decision making process.
- Supervises the implementation of the design, preparation of construction plans, design improvement, specifications and timetable activities, and overall construction of projects.
- Oversees the acquisition of field data.
- Develops and recommends standard operating procedures and performance standards utilized by the Division.
- Monitors operations and activities in the field to help assure standard operating procedures are followed and performance standards are met.
- Reviews project documentation and reports prepared by divisional staff for accuracy and completeness.
- Handles requests for information, service or complaints, or makes referrals to appropriate staff in a timely and concerned manner that reflects an effort to resolve any arising issues while at the same time acting responsibly on behalf of m2e.
- Models and strictly adheres to m2e standards, policies, and project schedules.
- Informs, in a timely manner, Department Head regarding any conflicts/issues that relate to his/her work.
- Develops and writes effective proposals and reports with all necessary backup material for external consumption.
- Develops and effectively delivers presentations to critical/high level customers.
- Responsible for budgets, proposal preparation, bid implementation, manpower estimates (immediate and long-range), and ensuring on-time delivery of projects.
- Drives team development making learning a required assignment for all employees.
Requirements
Professional Qualifications
- Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Engineering or a closely related field from an accredited college or university, or documented combination of education and professional experience in related engineering field.
- Active Florida Professional Engineer (P.E.) license via examination or active registration in another state with the ability to reciprocate to Florida within six months of beginning employment.
- Valid State of Florida Driver's License and reliable transportation required.
Skills and Abilities
- English proficiency: Fluent (Speak, read, understand, interpret content and write).
- Knowledgeable in all technical areas of design, construction and management, or having a demonstrated ability to achieve that level of proficiency in a short period of time.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly in dealing with manpower and budgets.
- Effectively mentors, trains and develops people within and/or outside his/her work group/team.
- Creative problem solving.
- 6+ years of pre-or-post degree work experience, which must have involved construction, design, inspection or estimating, and budgeting.
- 4+ years of forensic engineering preferred.
- Demonstrated project management experience in the field.
Physical Demands*
Necessary to perform the assigned duties safely and effectively:
- Ability to sit with back at a 90-degree angle for up to 8 hours per day.
- Ability to look at a computer for up to 8 hours per day.
- Ability to stand upright for up to 8 hours per day.
- Must be able to access and navigate job sites and construction areas (uneven terrain, exposure to outdoor weather elements)
- Bending, stooping, squatting, kneeling, laying, crawling, and twisting required up to 30% of the time in this role.
- Must be able to ride in a hoist and/or swing stage.
- Must be able to lift, push, pull, and carry up to 50 pounds at times.
- Must be able to use right and left foot for repetitive movements as in operating controls or levers.
- Full dexterity of wrists and fingers required with repetitive motions.
- Must be able to see near, in the distance, color, depth, and range.