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Senior Electrical Designer - Power Generation

Date: Feb 11, 2025

Location:

Overland Park, KS, US

Company: Black & Veatch Family of Companies

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Company : Black & Veatch Corporation

Req Id : 107430

Opportunity Type : Staff

Relocation eligible : No

Full time/Part time : Full-Time

Project Only Hire : No

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

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

• Advancedknowledge of company quality program

• Advanced ability to interpret engineering deliverable content as assigned

• Advanced knowledge of other disciplines

• Intermediate knowledge of constructionandconstructability practicesandprinciples

• Advanced knowledge of engineering design principles and applicable design guides related to assigned engineering discipline

• Intermediate knowledge of procurementandcontract administration . Intermediate knowledge ofprocess, 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

Competencies

Collaborates

Communicates effectively

Courage

Directs work

Instills trust

Interpersonal savvy

Organizational savvy

Customer focus

Decision quality

Salary Plan

ENT: Engineering Technician

Job Grade

133

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