Mechanical Discipline Manager
Dewberry
- Raleigh, NC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Growing, mentoring, and developing the staff within discipline area to allow each person to achieve their maximum potential.
- Minimum annual evaluations for each direct reports.
- Providing technical guidance/leadership for discipline area.
- 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 very active role in recruitment of staff in discipline area including networking, recruitment, interviewing and “deal closing”.
- Technical and Quality oversight of all project work for discipline area.
- Establishing/improving standards for discipline area.
- Adherence to project design schedule.
- Notification to Project/Client Managers if established project design schedule cannot be met. Notify in enough time to appropriately handle the situation, preferably at the latest 2 weeks prior.
- Adherence to discipline 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 staff performing design of the project, along with a senior staff member if required.
- Identify Engineer of Record.
- 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 of the disciplines involved, including outside consultants.
- Work schedule for discipline showing:
- Project assignments and priorities
- Delivery due dates for group project commitment’s
- Workload/Capacity
- Simply put – Discipline Managers control all production resources and all commitments must come from Discipline leaders. Conversely – accountability for our deliveries comes from Discipline Managers.