Assistant Department Manager - Substation (San Juan, PR)

• Advocate for safety within the department.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and direction to the team.
• Coordinate team and mentor assignments of engineers with the Substation department manager, project managers and project engineers for the efficient, cost-effective utilization of staff. Approve timecards and ensure that billable time goals are met.
• Demonstrate creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in anticipating and solving problems.
• Responsible for fostering a healthy and vibrant employee-owner culture within the team through the leverage of sound team-building practices, the promotion and administration of effective conflict resolution, the promotion of ownership mentality, a healthy work-life balance, and community engagement.
• Assist the Substation Department Management team in developing business initiatives to improve profitability and/or efficiencies.
• Actively foster a culture based on our MacCulture principles, quality, diversity and inclusion, and team cohesion and camaraderie.
• Recruit, develop, train, and retain interns, designers, and engineers.
• Review employee performance and conduct development meetings (90-day and annual performance appraisals, mid-year reviews, coaching sessions, performance improvement, etc.).
• Identify training needs for engineers and support/develop training programs for the department. Collaborating with other departments on shared training.
• Assist with developing new clients and maintaining existing clients.
• Assist with developing and reviewing proposals.
• Develop and foster an innovative culture that challenges the norm and utilizes tools, technology, and processes to drive continuous improvement and efficiency.
• Provide input into areas of concern and direction to enhance the achievement of productivity goals, budgets, and quality.
• Interpret policies, purposes, and goals of the organization to staff.
• Work closely with project teams to ensure deliverables and services meet client expectations and follow internal QA/QC guidelines and processes. Perform design quality reviews.
• Develop design deliverables for greenfield and brownfield high-voltage (13kV to 765kV) electrical power substations.
• Serve as a technical liaison to clients; support field inspections for substation facilities.
• Meet and correspond with clients and external partners to build and maintain key relationships.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, environmental science, construction management, or related field from an accredited program
• 5 years of related professional experience.
• Demonstrated excellent written & verbal communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must possess strong project management skills and a strategic perspective
• Must be an expert in the use of computer software (i.e., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

• Recruiting experience.
• Ability to clearly and effectively present complex information to all levels of employees, management, and clients
• Experience in giving and receiving performance feedback for those they work with.
• Familiarity with tools/technology such as Pivot Tables, Data Models, Office 365 apps, and other efficiency/data tracking tools.
• Ability to influence, lead, and manage change thoughtfully and positively.

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