Engineering Manager - Protection & Control | Build and Grow a New Team

Qualus is hiring a Protection & Control Engineering Manager to lead and grow an engineering team supporting project demands and department goals. The role provides technical oversight, supervises engineers, and contributes to engineering strategy and client relationships in the power and energy sector.

Responsibilities:

• Accomplishes human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures
• Achieves operational objectives by contributing engineering information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining administrative system improvements; implementing change
• Provide oversight, technical and procedural direction to ensure proper engineering processes are followed throughout projects
• Developing, nurturing and maintaining trusted relationships with senior level engineering, managers, and executives with current or prospective clients
• Ability to coordinate work with engineering offices where shared resources might reside
• Work with department to cross-train employees on multi-client standards for efficiency and scale, working towards more of a team concept
• Actively coordinate with Business Development to ensure a more consistent pipeline and backlog of workflow
• Confidently and comfortably present technical solutions to key customers respond in real time to technical concerns and answer questions in a knowledgeable articulate manner
• Delegating, planning, prioritizing, and forecast upcoming engineering requirements/needs including non-job-related training schedules
• Direct and/or participate in client meetings/job site visits to collect or deliver design and engineering data
• Provide technical support for quotes/estimating as it relates to engineering, project management and client management input
• Review and approve employee time sheets and expense statements for accuracy
• Ensure project cost, quality, and schedule requirements are met
• Conduct audits to ensure all design packages follow Qualus’ QA/QC process
• Oversee internal training program by identifying staff’s needs and coordinating resources that will perform training
• Attend Project Kickoff meetings to discuss in detail work scope, project specifications, budgets, schedules, and safety requirements with project team

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited school
• Minimum 5 years in management, within the energy sector
• Experience in Utility protection and control engineering
• Master's Degree in Engineering Management or MBA, is a plus
• Professional Engineering (PE) license, preferred