Manager - Data Centers Structural

atwellgroup; Atwell (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Atwell, LLC is seeking a Manager in Data Centers Structural Engineering to lead engineers, designers, drafters, and technicians on Substation and BESS yard projects. You will drive team development, workload planning, quality, and on-time delivery while coordinating with project managers and leadership.

The role requires strong leadership, accountability, and the ability to manage budgets, schedules, and technical scope across multiple concurrent assignments in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams with accountability for deliverables.
• Strong skills in coaching, performance feedback, and development planning.
• Robust workload planning and resource-forecasting capabilities across multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineers, designers, drafters, and technicians.
• Ensure timely, high-quality completion of engineering scopes.
• Forecast workload, plan resources, and manage project staffing.
• Coordinate with PMs and leadership on priorities and budgets.
• Support QA/QC reviews of structural calculations, drawings, and submittals.
• Ensure compliance with codes, loading, foundation, steel and concrete specs.

Skills

Team leadership

Coaching

Performance management

Resource forecasting

Workload planning

Job description

Who We Are

Atwell, LLC is a bold leader in the consulting, engineering, and construction services industry, delivering a broad range of creative solutions to clients in the real estate & land development, and energy markets. We have a strong national presence and a diverse, award-winning project portfolio. Atwell is a privately owned company, with 2,000+ passionate team members across 75+ locations and growing!

Atwell, LLC is a proud recipient of the following 2025 awards:

• Ten consecutive years in a row as a "Best Place to Work" by Zweig Group (#11)
• Recognized as #70 in the ENR Top 500 Design Firms, ranked in every region
• Recognized in Crain's "Fast 50" as one of the fastest-growing companies (#14)
• Recognized as the 2025 ENR Design Firm of the year for the southeastern US

About the Position

As a Manager in Data Centers Structural Engineering, you will lead engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals supporting structural engineering for Substation and BESS yards. The role is accountable for team development, workload and resource planning, technical quality, project delivery, and accurate and timely completion of assigned work. In this role, an employee will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in the essential functions outlined below.

Essential 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.

Must-Have 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 covera