Senior Electrical Designer - Power Generation Job at Black & Veatch Family of Companies, Overland Park, KS

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  • Black & Veatch Family of Companies
  • Overland Park, KS

Job Description

Job Summary

Functions in a senior supervisory capacity. Well experienced in engineering design in multiple disciplines. Manages engineering and design schedules, design activities, and budgets for discipline(s) for a large project(s). May directly manage one discipline and/or coordinate activities involving multiple departments.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Standards:

  • Communicates and sets appropriate design and graphic standards 
  • Reviews project requirements and accurately determine the correct format and contents of the required deliverables  

Quality / Continuous Improvement:

  • Promotes quality within project/group/section  
  • Reviews design inputs in order to ensure consistency 
  • Ensures that design deliverables are prepared, coordinated among disciplines and issued in accordance with Black and Veatch Quality Assurance Procedures and project specific procedures 
  • Looks for ways to improve applications integration, coordination and communication across disciplines 
  • Contributes to the continuous improvement of guides and standards  
  • Participates in and leads process improvement activities and assignments 
  • Demonstrates personal accuracy and evaluates department design processes for improvement and drives continuous improvement and change management efforts  

Engineering Production:

  • Applies sound engineering fundamentals and established design practices in developing deliverables  
  • Continues to apply judgment, makes decisions with respect to the work and provides guidance to other professionals  
  • Coordinates deliverable presentations, delegate's production design, or other electronic applications 
  • Monitors production to assure consistency, budget and schedule of deliverables 
  • Establish the appropriate method for drawing control and historical records  
  • Programs control systems or participate in other plant start-up activities associated with a specialized expertise area 
  • May lead development activities relating to new/updated design applications or processes  

Project Coordination: 

  • Coordinates with other design group personnel to review and exchange project information necessary for design development 
  • May support field activities 
  • May manage multiple discipline area or groups  
  • Communicates project design requirements, progress and schedules  

Client Focus:

  • Responsible for determining identification of key client interests and drivers on projects 
  • Communicate client interests and drivers to project team members and develop approaches to accommodate these concerns  

Knowledge Sharing, Innovation and Technology:

  • Lead in the development and communication of appropriate design standards and process improvement activities 
  • Identify training and development needs for personnel they supervise and participate in training efforts 
  • Serves as the champion for project tool/application development and improvement for software tools  

People Management - (supervision - career development - developing professionals, mentoring):

  • May oversee functions including performance management process, career planning, learning and development, recognition, and corrective actions  
  • Supervises engineering technicians, including mentoring, instructing, delegation of work and providing feedback  

Resource Management - (staffing):

  • Monitors staffing levels and available skill sets for project(s), possibly involving multi-disciplines 
  • Identifies resource application needs and process requirements  

Administrative:

  • Reviews timesheets, expense reports, responsible for communicating the continual development of new hire recruitment, policy and procedure 

Management Responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications

  • Associate Degree in Drafting or an Engineering Design Related Technology preferred  
  • Bachelor Degree in an Engineering Design Related Technology preferred 
  • Typically a minimum of 15 years related work experience  

Preferred Non-Technical Skills:

  • Drive for Results
  • Self Development
  • Listening
  • Informing
  • Dealing with Ambiguity
  • Priority Setting
  • Planning
  • Delegation 

Preferred Technical Skills:

  • Ability to manage external client based meetings on CADD, information modeling engineering and resource topics
  • Advanced knowledge of engineering standards, systems, document control, departmental guides and Black and Veatch policies and procedures
  • Advanced industry knowledge and technology trends
  • Advanced knowledge of company quality program
  • Advanced ability to interpret engineering deliverable content as assigned
  • Advanced knowledge of other disciplines
  • Intermediate knowledge of construction and constructability practices and principles
  • Advanced knowledge of engineering design principles and applicable design guides related to assigned engineering discipline
  • Intermediate knowledge of procurement and contract administration . Intermediate knowledge of process, procedures for project controls and estimating
  • Advanced knowledge of management techniques and company/division HR programs, policies, procedures, and organization structure . Intermediate knowledge of technical aspects of the proposal process

Minimum Qualifications

All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Certifications

Work Environment/Physical Demands

Normal office environment

Job Tags

Contract work, Work experience placement,

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