Assistant Electrical Discipline Manager

Dewberry’s Raleigh office is seeking an Assistant Electrical Discipline Manager for the MEPS Infrastructure team. This person will be responsible for knowing how to do the work committed to in proposals and assigning / leading the appropriate resources to do the work for the discipline area. Assist Project/Client Managers by providing engineering resources – a design team - to help meet the client’s desires and budget. Duties would also include some involvement in direct MEP sales and assisting with sales efforts for multidiscipline projects. In short, provide the design/engineering resources and guidance to accomplish our commitments. Reports to the Electrical Discipline Manager.

Dewberry has one of the strongest electrical teams in the Raleigh area with over 30 electrical design professionals. You will be joining a team of highly skilled, experienced, and dedicated electrical professionals focused on designing the electrical infrastructure that interconnects your healthcare, higher education, and federal campuses. At Dewberry you will develop your technical knowledge in microgrids, medium voltage distribution, SCADA, and power system studies as you execute a full range of services for our national clients. As part of the MEPS Infrastructure electrical team, you will shape the impact renewable energy has, as it is utilized by our clients in meeting their decarbonization and electrification goals. Your designs will combine co-generation, solar generation, battery energy store systems, and complex control systems to improve the reliability of our nation’s infrastructure.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Assistant Electrical Discipline Manager will assist the Electrical Power Distribution Discipline Manger in leading their department to effectively and successfully complete projects, including:

• Growing, mentoring, and developing department staff to allow each person to achieve their maximum potential.
• Minimum annual evaluations for each direct report.
• Technical and Quality oversight of all project work for department.
• Establishing/improving department standards.
• Adherence to project design schedules.
• Notification to Project/Client Managers if established project design schedule cannot be met.
• Adherence to department project budget. Review and provide updates on project budgets at milestone dates. Reviewing discipline budgets weekly.
• Attention to project scope during the design process to identify potential additional services.
• Identify department staff performing design of the project, along with a senior staff and EOR as required.
• Provide general updates of projects (status in the process, tasks to complete, percentage complete currently, etc.)
• Identify milestone dates when each discipline should provide information, at each phase, to allow sufficient time to good design coordination.
• Provide 'on-the-spot' advice and decisions, technical and cost estimates.
• Coordination with all disciplines involved, including outside consultants.
• Work schedule for discipline showing:
• Project assignments and priorities
• Delivery due dates for group project commitments
• Workload/Capacity
• Organizing staff in a way to allow career advancement, professional development, quality client service, and operational efficiencies to meet business and project financial goals.
• Taking a highly active role in recruitment of staff in discipline area including networking, recruitment, interviewing and “deal closing.”
• The Assistant Discipline Manager’s goal is to, when ready, become a Discipline Manager, leading their own department.

• Accomplished (7+ years of experience) licensed Professional Engineer
• Knowledgeable in construction process
• Familiar with AIA construction contracts
• Self-motivated with highly developed verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
• Experience assisting in staff management/department management.
• Experience supporting design of medium voltage systems and power systems studies. Including experience and understanding of document preparation utilizing both CADD and BIM/Revit platforms.
• Well organized, takes good notes.
• Good conceptual understanding of electrical systems with general knowledge of system operation, space requirements, cost.

Do not meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for our employees. So, if you are excited about this role, but your experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters: Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.

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