Director of engineering Jobs in Clearwater, FL

Our Clearwater, Florida based client is in search of a Director of Engineering. The Director will be responsible for the safe design of quality equipment on time and on budget for significant and complex client projects.This includes the development of design / product standards as well as delivering custom-engineered integrated systems to meet both end-user and engineering client demands.

The role is supremely focused on technical analysis, design and guidance for the department. Through shared learning, transparency and success promoting a culture of lean. The position focus on coaching, training and developing the engineering team form a technical standpoint. This role will also be responsible for documenting process, solving challenging issue and most importantly memorizing lessons learned.

Job Responsibilities

• Build and lead a responsive engineering team to work with internal and external customers from the time of receipt of customer order through delivery of equipment and final commissioning.
• Build a whole-team oriented culture of excellence leveraging shared learnings, transparency, and success recognition throughout the whole of the business.
• Develop and deploy equipment, component and design standards grounded in customer expectations and best practices.
• Provide continual improvement to current equipment, including water heaters and heat recovery equipment, as well as wastewater equipment, design standards, manuals, and engineering procedures and evaluate new wastewater treatment technologies, design, and process.
• Construct the company's technology roadmap and implement a plan to realize it.
• Support field inquiries on technical and operational concerns.
• Develop and utilize the team to build efficient business systems and processes to deliver equipment without waste and utilize appropriate KPIs to measure success.
• Build a culture of lean through shared learnings, transparency, and success.
• Drive lean training and implement a lean toolkit utilizing PDCA, value stream mapping, kaizen, standard work, problem solving and 5S throughout the business.
• Manage assigned employees, plan and coordinate team activity / workload, monitor employee performance, provide feedback, complete performance reviews.
• Encourage growth, development and training of staff; interview, hire and train new employees; develop and maintain positive employee and inter-department relations.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or science. Master's degree in engineering or science preferred.
• PE or other certifications preferred.
• 10+ years of experience leading Engineering team(s).
• Mastery of the principles of heat transfer, combustion, and wastewater treatment.
• Working knowledge of process equipment instrumentation and controls.
• A minimum of ten years' experience in progressive engineering roles with at least three years in an engineered-to-order environment.
• At least five years of leading a multidiscipline team of engineers.
• Six Sigma and Lean experience preferred.
• Project Management experience preferred.
• Excellent verbal / written skills.
• MS Office Suite.
• Knowledge of ASME, AWS, UL, NSF, NEC, NFPA, IEC preferred.

Travel Requirements :

• Travel is required, as necessary; must have the ability to travel across borders. (valid passport)

Meet Your Recruiter

David Vieregge

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