Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Welty Energy is expanding its engineering team to support growth in electric utility distribution engineering. The Distribution Engineering Manager will lead a high-growth team while overseeing technical quality, project lifecycles, client relationships, resource planning, financial accountability, and team development.
Responsibilities
- High-Growth Team Scaling & Lifecycle Management through capacity and pipeline forecasting to develop predictive staffing and resource models ahead of and in line with your utility client's needs
- Strategic Management & Client Advocacy; includes Client Relationship Management to foster and maintain a highly customer-centric relationship with designated utility clients, serving as a primary advocate for the firm's engineering capabilities
- Operations, Resource & Financial Management through workload coordination and utilization
- Technical Oversight & Standards Authority as the Subject Matter Expert and the primary technical lead on client construction standards, regulatory codes, material specifications, and engineering software tools (e.g., DDS, CREWS). This includes dispute resolution and project consulting
- People Management, Training & Culture responsibilities from career development, to hiring and onboarding as well as continuous process improvement to elevate your team and quality of work
- Administrative Compliance to enforce strict adherence to internal workflows, ensuring that weekly timesheets and expense submittals for the entire distribution engineering team meet strict approval deadlines
Skills
- Experience: Minimum of 10 years of progressive utility distribution design or electric utility construction experience
- Management Experience: Minimum of 5 years of direct experience managing people and leading technical teams
- Leadership Skills: Proven ability to manage resource constraints, resolve complex technical or interpersonal conflicts, and build an encouraging, high-performing team environment
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal skills tailored for conveying clear project objectives to internal teams and presenting confidently to external utility stakeholders
- Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering, engineering technology, or construction management is preferred
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