Electrical Department Manager

• Coordination with equipment vendors and suppliers for selected equipment.
• Serve as Lead Electrical Project Engineer or AlfaTech Project Manager
• Direct Supervision of support staff experience
• Coordination of equipment with architectural/structural designs and with in-house M/P engineers
• Supervision of design production including Quality Assurance procedures
• Project Financial Management including coordination with in-house accounting staff
• Managing staff and allocation of resources to meet project deadlines
• Process plans through a variety of Plan Check agencies and obtain their approvals
• Develop and maintain training programs and resources for staff growth
• Review and negotiation of legal contracts and terms and conditions with oversight from Corporate staff
• Preparation of detailed designs including calculations and specifications
• Recruiting and interview of potential candidates for hire
• Perform Contractor Submittal Review, RFI responses, and Construction observations
• Manage weekly meetings to convey staff assignments and balancing workloads
• Communicate directly with clients (presentations, proposal preparation, meetings, etc.)
• Annual performance reviews of staff
• Development and implementation of quality assurance standards
• Job site investigation and construction observation
• Assign electrical project management and support engineering roles on new projects
• Completing project tasks within established design budgets.
• Review, Mentor, Train, Promote and where necessary, terminate department staff
• Development of fee proposals and project scopes of work

This position is for an outgoing leader with extensive engineering experience and a desire to pass along this experience to the balance of the San Jose office electrical department. In addition to acting as a lead electrical engineer/project manager on a variety of projects, the tasks for this position include providing leadership, mentoring, and workload assignments for the department of approximately 15 engineers/designers as well as recruiting and staff retention responsibilities. The department manager will work with the company leadership to establish and maintain the engineering standards and quality assurance procedures for production.

• Preparation of Due Diligence, Feasibility, and Basis of Design reports in addition to project manager skills, successful candidate must have a demonstrated skill level at Electrical engineering including:
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Excellent computer skills (EE analysis programs, Microsoft Office programs, AutoCAD and Revit)
• Project Management experience.
• Recognized as technical expert, self-motivated to keep up with industry changes.
• Electrical Engineer Registration (PE) preferred
• Knowledge of codes, standards, and construction/engineering processes.
• Minimum 12 years direct experience with Consulting or Design Build Electrical firm
• Effective meeting minutes and action item tracking.
• LEED Accreditation desired