Lead Data Center Structural Engineering Manager

Atwell, LLC; North Carolina; On-site; USD 100,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible work schedules

Tuition assistance

Student loan repayment

Job summary

Atwell, LLC is seeking a Manager in Data Centers Structural Engineering to lead engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other professionals supporting substation and BESS yard structures. You will ensure quality, schedule adherence, and professional growth across the team.

The role requires a PE license, a bachelor's in structural engineering, and 6–10 years of relevant experience, with strong leadership, budgeting, and client coordination. Travel to projects may be required.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, develop, and hold accountable multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Ability to maintain accountability for team deliverable quality, schedule performance, work efficiency, and adherence to established processes.
• Strong workload‑planning and resource‑forecasting skills, including team assignments, project coverage, milestones, and estimate‑to‑complete information.
• Working knowledge of project budgets, financial performance, estimates, project controls, and operational performance measures.
• Strong technical‑review and QA/QC capabilities with the ability to identify quality, constructability, compliance, coordination, and execution concerns.
• Ability to investigate and resolve technical, workload, resource, safety, and project‑delivery concerns and elevate issues appropriately.
• Ability to support technical scopes, estimates, schedules, assumptions, proposals, and project‑change documentation.
• Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, coaching, conflict‑resolution, and stakeholder‑communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Project Managers, Technical Advisors, leaders, clients, contractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Advanced knowledge of structural engineering for Substation and BESS yards, including loading, steel, concrete, piles, foundations, equipment support, applicable codes, and construction practices.
• Proficiency with engineering, design‑review, project‑delivery, workload‑planning, and business productivity tools applicable to the assigned specialty.
• Demonstrates commitment to Atwell quality and safety standards, employee development, ethical conduct, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Structural Engineering, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution required.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
• 6-10 years of experience in structural engineering or related technical field.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, or other technical professionals.
• Experience managing team workload, resource assignments, schedules, project coverage, and technical deliverables across multiple projects.
• Experience supporting QA/QC, project budgets, forecasting, risk management, proposals, project planning, and operational improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, mentor, and develop engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals supporting the assigned specialty.
• Maintain accountability for the accurate, timely, and quality completion of engineering and design scopes assigned to the team.
• Establish clear expectations and support employee development through coaching, feedback, training, performance management, individualized development planning, and succession planning.
• Assess team strengths, development needs, and technical capabilities and coordinate appropriate training, mentoring, and work assignments.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, inclusive, and high-performing team environment focused on quality, safety, professional growth, and continuous improvement.
• Lead workload forecasting, resource planning, staffing decisions, team scheduling, and project performance monitoring to maintain appropriate project coverage.
• Maintain visibility into active projects, milestone dates, resource assignments, estimate-to-complete information, and workload constraints.
• Coordinate project assignments and team priorities with Project Managers, technical leaders, operations, and organizational leadership.
• Monitor team-level project budgets, estimate-to-complete information, and financial performance in coordination with Project Managers and organizational leadership.
• Identify and address workload, resource, schedule, quality, safety, and project-delivery risks before they affect project continuity or client commitments.
• Drive improvements in standards, workflows, tools, and team practices that enhance quality, consistency, efficiency, predictability, and project performance.
• Oversee structural engineering scopes for substations and BESS yards, including piles, foundations, slabs, structural loading, steel and concrete details, bills of material, and supporting calculations.
• Provide or coordinate QA/QC reviews of structural calculations, models, specifications, drawings, submittals, and construction documentation.
• Ensure designs apply applicable structural loading, foundation, steel, concrete, material, building-code, and authority-having-jurisdiction requirements.
• Support field inspection, construction services, submittal review, technical issue resolution, and multidisciplinary project coordination.
• Support equipment and material specifications, estimates, schedules, proposals, and value-engineering or commercial considerations.
• Support project planning and execution to help ensure assigned work is delivered within established scope, schedule, budget, technical, safety, and quality requirements.
• Support development of technical scopes, assumptions, estimates, schedules, proposals, and documentation for new work and project changes in coordination with Project Managers.
• Partner with Project Managers and technical leaders to coordinate multidisciplinary work and maintain appropriate coverage across project scopes.
• Support proposal development, marketing activities, client pursuits, and business development through technical input and resource-planning support.
• Support client relationships by helping resolve technical and delivery concerns and promoting consistent, responsive service.
• Perform other job‑related responsibilities as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Team development

Structural engineering

QA/QC

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Structural Engineering

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Job description

Atwell, LLC is seeking a Manager in Data Centers Structural Engineering to lead engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other professionals supporting substation and BESS yard structures. You will ensure quality, schedule adherence, and professional growth across the team.

The role requires a PE license, a bachelor's in structural engineering, and 6–10 years of relevant experience, with strong leadership, budgeting, and client coordination. Travel to projects may be required.