BRIEF: Genuine technical leadership role in the area of electrical critical facilities design that includes the full spectrum design department management from leadership as conceptual solutions developer and design engineer to project and program management. The job involves management of a team, client interface responsibilities, hiring and mentoring responsibilities. You will be joining the firm as a principal.

HIGHLIGHTS:Substantial remuneration, ESOP structure, access to first tier domestic and international clients by introduction, extraordinary positive performance legacy, quality team.

SUMMARY OF OBJECTIVE:The focus of this particular practice within the larger organization is the design of power systems for mission critical facilities such as data centers, central offices or network operating centers. You are an engineering leader with technical depth and imagination. We are often asked what the key point of differentiation between our firm’s engineering culture and that of most competitive firms and if forced to identify just one engineering cultural difference it would be reasonable to say that we do the work of thorough engineering for every client which means that we are not bent upon recycling our old work. We are engineers, and we sell that inventive and unbiased expertise.

Our firm is a large multinational firm staffed with talented and passionate people. We have been in the business a long time and with our success come stability and the access offered by our historic reputation and our ability to staff and finance huge projects.  This segment of our business emphasizes the delivery of unique electrical engineering services, and we are increasingly selling those services by themselves, while continuing with the more traditional combined services formats (architectural, MEP, electrical, communication & systems integration).

We have offices all over the country and locations internationally, but we need help in the Baltimore Washington corridor that is focused on servicing the needs of a vast array of private commerce that has sprung up in the region and the needs of local and federal government along with the myriad agencies tied to the Federal system. There are always very challenging and often bleeding edge projects many of which are funded by tax dollars in the Balt-DC megalopolis and those government based funding sources help make business in that region strong and stable. It might be a good time to become the benefactor of the governmental spending that makes our job more a matter of meeting demands than fighting to locate the work.

Engineering firms all over the country have targeted this marketplace but the reality of our sixty years of intimacy with these clients, sixty years of success for these clients, physical proximity to them, and quality staffing makes us a dominant force. Known, trusted, respected, with a list of local success stories on major projects in hand, our history remains the winning combination in support of the pursuit of new work. A significant portion of the work we do is “invited” work, and is never seen at all by the competitive engineering firms at all.

We offer professional working environments and an open management style that is unique and your freedom to impact policy and strategy is a rewarding benefit for a capable professional leader going beyond our inherent competitive edges. While we are in a good position by history, proximity, staff size, professional credentials and other certifications, we are also a marketing driven company. Strength in a professional marketing department enhances our competitive position and also your personal equity. We will explain that.

We have worked at the maintenance of positive morale in the highly demanding world of critical facilities engineering by purposefully targeting staff with personality that supports teaming efforts and leadership with emotional intelligence. We have hired self-disciplined and driven people that have allowed our management style to be mission centric rather than micro-management. You may be provided with the mission, and the essential intent of design goals with the expectation that you and will organize a plan for a great engineering effort and efficient execution. As your career here evolves, YOU will define the missions. Despite the fact that we are a very large firm there are remarkably few of administrative procedures and policies. The only highly structured arena is financial reporting and you want the firm you will call home to be one that runs under financial control regardless.

We have office locations at the vital economic points in the nation and around the world for this mission critical electrical engineering work and there is no firm with a better platform for getting it done. If you were selecting a team for your mission critical endeavor, we would pass muster.

PROJECT TARGETS

Mission critical work in our world includes the obvious data center market, but also includes all manner of highly reliable electrical systems required for NOCs, command control centers, call centers, surgical centers, high-tech manufacturing, large banking institutions, specialized laboratories, clean rooms and containments, specialized critical process (semiconductor, electronics manufacturing) defense installations and security operations, and fundamental government infrastructures. These unique applications result in lots of “out of the box” thinking that accompanies classic high reliability engineering. Part of this has to do with facilities size and part of it client vision for reliability, system status reporting and ease of maintenance. The essence is robust power services, medium voltage primary system designs, UPS systems, complex power transfer systems, SCADA, tough mechanical obstacles and critical human engineering/interface considerations. The work is challenging and if you have a passion for it, our work may be some of the most exciting work you will ever undertake. If high profile critical power engineering work that demands an exceptional engineer along with department leadership is how you wish to apply your talents, you will enjoy working with us here.

OUR FIRM IN PARTICULAR

An intimate environment within a first tier firm characterizes our local office environment. We are a big firm (10,000 + internationally, 1,500 domestically). We have well more than a half a century of local service in the markets we have discussed. We have and continue to serve the giants, but for all of that the engineering groups are self-contained, largely self-directed and intimate. Your experience will be the experience of working for a small company in a very open working environment, but the resources you can tap into and leverage are very large. You will be able to harness the history, knowledge base, reputation, location, talent pool, technology, resources and capital assets of a top 10 International firm in the process of doing your work. Day to day, the size and power of the organization do not add overhead or process burden to the work you will do personally, but when you need our power, it is there.

Critical facilities Engineering is a small practice that we have recently (last 10 years) elected to promote and market very heavily. It had become quite robust without a specific charter from above, but with the commitment and staffing allocated to do rainmaking work in critical facilities, it has become fast and furious, and there is significant short-term career growth opportunity for outstanding professionals. As a director and principal you will not have to wait for any incumbents to retire or expire to move your personal career ahead and there is room for a vice president if you stand out.

We have the best benefits package in the business. We have nice professional spaces, and a willingness to move or expand them as is necessary. We have a culture that allows for Rapid career advancement. We have and will continue to support professional education at every level. We are a culture that looks for personality, passion and a willingness to collaborate and our focus on fit has resulted in a group of nice folks to work with. Our location and sales efforts have resulted in lots of work of an interesting and exciting nature.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

We market our staff. We promote our individual staff members, write articles and secure speaking engagements. We have brought personal prominence to key staff members.

The board of directors has agreed to provide specific personal introductions to our largest international clients.  These are companies the firm has spent decades courting, penetrating and serving at many levels. Introductions at the “C” levels in many of these companies are virtually impossible to achieve without significant prior political connections. You will be introduced and have the advantage of pre-established legitimacy and credibility.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

You are a registered professional electrical power engineer that has designed tier III and IV facilities. You have project management experience and can lead a team. You have the ability to be the designer, presenter and leader in executing the work.

The department is chartered to design very reliable electrical systems. Some will have dual utility feeds. Some will have redundant generation. Generally there will be sophisticated automatic transfer equipment, large capacity UPS systems, chunks of raised floor, serious cooling equipment, SCADA, controls and a well-designed failure response system. It is possible to see generation paralleling a utility grid for a very large facility.

Most of this takes place in a building or campus, and it is very helpful to have ordinary facilities distribution experience and even life safety, communications and electronic security experience because every facility has some of it and we do that mundane work along side of the exotic project elements. A project is smoother running and easier to manage and control if we keep a whole facility project (at least the electrical and mechanical) in the group and not parcel out the switches and lights because it is less exciting.

You have some experience with environmental considerations. Cooling and thermal rejection, the realm of the mechanical engineers, are synergistic elements in a critical power system. You are an expert in the considerations for and the design of failure response mechanisms. People seem to be the culprits bringing down critical facilities, and if you have experience managing HMI and guiding human response in these environments, that will help us.

Consulting engineering is a unique business. Your critical power systems expertise has to be very wide and reasonably deep, which means you have to know what you do not know, how to get to data you do not have on hand and extract precisely the correct elements of expertise you do not apply every day. We are not a facilities company or a construction company. Our products are studies, proposals, design and contract documents and drawings, RFP generation and contractor review and selection and support by way of construction administration and commissioning. We have a stunning commissioning team for critical facilities to support your efforts and clients.

You have participated in conceptual analysis and feasibility studies, and have produced all manner of contract documents. If we had to do the entire as-built set for a huge datacenter, the CAD department is doing that work, but all of us participate in day-to-day CAD markup activities (yes all the VPs can do CAD), and we need some CAD experience and the get it done what ever it takes spirit for those time where you need to have your personal hand in the mix.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILTIES

This is a corporate executive director’s position reporting directly to a Senior Vice President

• Conceptual and feasibility work
• Budgetary estimation
• Systems design and specification
• Contract document production support
• Electrical engineering team leadership
• Critical path scheduling
• Work delegation
• Project Management
• Construction administration
• Commissioning support (we have a dedicated team)
• Proposal development
• Presentation
• Hire/Fire
• Mentor/Train

CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION

We have retained a consultant to screen applicants. Our motivation here was to assure confidential communication for YOU.  The consultant is a subject matter expert instructed to move none of your personal or employment information whatsoever without your expressed consent. You can collect preliminary details without fear of exposure.

COMPENSATION

Base salary in the range of $155- 195K. Great benefits. We are an employee owned corporation. Our ESOP format reduces politics and interdepartmental competition providing positive morale, opportunity for advancement, and equitable bonus (by stock option) compensation. Wonderful benefits. We will assist in moving a right fit candidate. You can get rich working here.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: powerhero@hughes.net