Engineering Manager

Globalpundits, Inc.; Aiken (SC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Globalpundits, Inc. seeks an experienced Advisory Engineer to serve as a Project Engineer, providing staff augmentation and engineering leadership on assigned projects. This senior role requires initiating independent technical programs, resolving complex problems, and guiding design and construction activities.

You will mentor junior staff, champion quality initiatives, and coordinate with management across engineering, design, and construction to meet cost and schedule targets.

Qualifications

• PhD with roughly 15 years of experience
• MS with roughly 17 years of experience
• BS with roughly 21 years of experience
• BS in Engineering or current PE registration

Responsibilities

• Provide staff augmentation, integrating and managing engineering activities for assigned projects
• Establish design criteria, resource forecasts, schedules, and priorities
• Manage project tasks and deliver results against cost and schedule targets
• Provide overall engineering and design direction, leadership, and management for assigned projects/tasks
• Oversee administration, document control, project controls, and quality engineering functions through section supervisors
• Resolve conflicts between project direction and functional/technical direction
• Build project teams by requesting, evaluating, and developing engineering expertise
• Evaluate subcontractor performance to ensure design output meets objectives
• Establish design baselines and authorize subcontractor changes
• Evaluate cost/schedule variances and implement corrective actions (EVMS experience required)
• Define project scope of work, ensuring firm customer requirements are established

Skills

Technical Leadership

Project Management

EVMS

Mentoring

Communication

Education

PhD + ~15 years experience

MS + ~17 years experience

BS + ~21 years experience

BS in Engineering or PE registration

Tools

EVMS

Job description

Employment Type: 12 Month Contract with a strong possibility of extension

About the Role:

Client is seeking an experienced Advisory Engineer to serve in a Project Engineer working capacity, providing staff augmentation support and engineering leadership on assigned projects. This is a senior-level technical role for a candidate who can initiate independent technical programs, resolve highly complex engineering problems, and provide project management leadership across engineering, design, and construction activities.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

• Initiate technical programs and advise management based on analysis of customer needs and technology trends
• Resolve the most complex technical problems within area of expertise and influence solutions in adjacent disciplines
• Apply advanced technical practices to complex requirements, special materials/processes, and difficult coordination challenges
• Recommend and help plan research, development, testing, and quality assurance programs
• Communicate results through reports, manuscripts, and presentations to oversight groups and professional societies
• Mentor less senior professionals in technical and communication skills
• Champion Total Quality (TQ) initiatives at the Division and Department level

Project & Program Management

• Provide staff augmentation support, integrating and managing engineering activities for assigned projects
• Establish design criteria, resource forecasts, schedules, and priorities
• Manage project tasks and deliver results against cost and schedule targets
• Provide overall engineering and design direction, leadership, and management for assigned projects/tasks
• Oversee administration, document control, project controls, and quality engineering functions through section supervisors
• Resolve conflicts between project direction and functional/technical direction
• Build project teams by requesting, evaluating, and developing engineering expertise
• Evaluate subcontractor performance to ensure design output meets technical, cost, and schedule objectives
• Establish design activity baselines and recommend subcontractor authorizations and baseline changes
• Evaluate cost/schedule variances and implement corrective actions (EVMS experience required)
• Review cost accounts for procurement of engineered materials
• Define project scope of work, ensuring firm customer requirements are established

Required Qualifications:

Education & Experience (one of the following):

• PhD + approximately 15 years of experience
• MS + approximately 17 years of experience
• BS + approximately 21 years of experience
• BS in Engineering or current Professional Engineer (PE) registration

Experience:

• Providing overall engineering/design direction, leadership, and management for assigned projects and tasks
• Integrating engineering resources including design criteria, resource forecasts, schedules, and tools
• Providing administrative guidance to leads and managers
• Managing project administration, document control, project controls, and quality engineering
• Working with diverse teams and resolving cross-functional conflicts
• Experience with Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS)

Other Requirements:

• Ability to perform field walk-downs at job sites, including uneven surfaces, active construction areas, walking distances over a half mile, climbing ladders, wearing protective clothing/respirators as needed
• Strong attention to detail in producing quality technical documents
• Excellent communication skills across management, engineering, facility, operations, QA, and test personnel
• Ability to mentor junior team members

Preferred Qualifications:

• Registered Professional Engineer (PE) license in any state
• Prior experience supporting DOE/NNSA-regulated environments