Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager, Data Centers

Enercon Services, Inc.; Naperville (IL); On-site; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Enercon Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager - Mechanical for its Data Center Mission Critical Group. The role leads the mechanical engineering team on greenfield and brownfield data center projects, ensuring schedules, budgets, and quality.

Responsibilities include staff development, client relations, proposal leadership, and resource planning; travel up to 20% is required; PE license and 10+ years in mechanical engineering with 5+ years in data centers preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum 10 years of total experience in mechanical engineering with 5 years in data centers.
• Data Center Mechanical Systems Design expertise with knowledge of sustainability, energy, and CFD modeling.
• PE License required.
• Strong coordination and team building skills; demonstrated ability to work across disciplines, divisions, and teams.
• Ability to motivate team members and achieve goals through a positive, winning attitude and effective leadership style consistent with ENERCON’s Defining Excellence fundamentals.
• Activities at client sites may require pre-job briefs and walkdowns at the site, including occasional climbing.
• Excellent verbal communication skills; comfortable and effective communicator with staff, clients (internal and external), management, etc., choosing the right mode of communication for the situation and relaying the right message.
• Strong technical writing, attention to detail, and human performance skills.
• Required to travel up to 20% of the time to client sites (expected at least one time per month) for project and/or marketing meetings.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the Engineering Unit staff maintain schedules, budgets and quality of deliverables. Work with Project Managers to define the scope of work. Direct and assign work to the Engineering Unit to balance activities. Assign Lead Responsible Engineer (LRE). Maintain responsibility for the Unit’s quality; establish and enforce quality standards for the Unit through the Work Group Leads and Supervisors. Maintain, update, and execute Unit Continuous Improvement Plans. Accountable for ensuring project budget and schedule are met for Unit’s assigned projects. Responsible for the approval of engineering documents produced by the Unit.
• Hire, develop and retain staff. Identify and promote opportunities for site work. Identify and promote training opportunities (ex: owner’s groups, manufacturer, professional society). Utilize the review/approval process of deliverables as technical training opportunity for staff. Provide timely and appropriate performance feedback and coaching. Promote professional development (ex: professional license, certifications, and client qualifications). Support, follow, and enforce company policies and procedures. Identify and develop future leaders of the organization. Demonstrate technical leadership, providing resolution to technical issues either through own knowledge or by coordination with Subject Matter Expert. Drive continuous improvement in the organization utilizing lessons learned and corrective action programs.
• Aggressively support marketing efforts and business planning. Lead proposal preparation with input from discipline supervisors for scope and budget and review final proposals with Project Managers. Develop and maintain professional relationships with client counterparts. Assist with development and execution of business plan development and implementation, market assessment and planning, contract negotiation, product and service development. Attend conferences and meet with clients in person when required.
• Responsible for the assignment of engineering resources to projects through Supervisors and Work Group Leads. Maintain short- and long-range staffing projections based on work projections. Approve timesheets and expense reports of assigned personnel and other direct reports. Conduct annual performance appraisals, appropriately documenting regular performance and ensuring performance on both ends of the spectrum, both positive and negative, is managed effectively.
• Meet applied time goals for self; in addition, ensure that staff meet their applied time goals.

Skills

Mechanical engineering

Leadership

CFD modeling

Project management

Client communication

PE license

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering

Job description

Enercon Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager - Mechanical for its Data Center Mission Critical Group. The role leads the mechanical engineering team on greenfield and brownfield data center projects, ensuring schedules, budgets, and quality.

Responsibilities include staff development, client relations, proposal leadership, and resource planning; travel up to 20% is required; PE license and 10+ years in mechanical engineering with 5+ years in data centers preferred.