Power Practice Lead - #2747.20

Overview

Lead power practice, driving tech innovation, operations, and business growth.

Key Responsibilities

• technical leadership
• design protocols
• innovation scouting
• talent development
• client presentations
• qa/qc support

Tasks

-Mentor/coach selected staff in area of expertise. -Provide input for strategy and messaging for proposal development, ensuring qualifications are optimized and technical approaches are clear, compliant, and focused to increase our chances of success. -Provide input to other Practice Leads to ensure best management practices are consistently applied to achieve our technology advancement goals. -Assist market segment in identifying skill inventory in practice of their expertise. -Develop “talent tree” for their practice area on an annual basis to assess depth of talent and bench strength to support MSLs in hiring technology-based hires. -Provide technical input on projects and initiatives. -Maintain a safe working environment. -Support and promote our DEI initiatives. -Participate as a member in the Office of Applied Technology by identifying and reviewing proposed specific investments in advanced technology and innovation to keep our company technically competitive compared to the competition. -Actively support the Standards Committee by developing and maintaining design protocols originating from their practice to enhance and standardize project delivery consistency. This includes leading the development of Design Guidelines not only for the Practice within Wade Trim but also for client specific Design Guidelines. -Lead an annual staff assessment and report to the Market Segment Lead to identify technical, training and project management needs within the market segment and the Practice. Drive the staff improvement process through the Market Segment Leads. -Seek out emerging and potentially disruptive innovative systems, methods and technology that will keep Wade Trim at the forefront of innovation and continuous improvement to provide the best solutions for our clients. -Work with the Market Segment Lead to drive growth by leveraging existing relationships while developing new relationships necessary to achieve sales goal. -Oversee and manage the business planning process and execution of market segment and Practice participation in technical training and conferences, including setting attendance criteria, defining learning or client engagement goals, ensuring post-event knowledge sharing, and tracking outcomes to assess value and attendee effectiveness. -Provide overall technical leadership, vision, and guidance to their practice area. -Develop and implement plans to apply innovation to the practice and our clients by engaging in internal and external activities necessary to deploy such innovations, such as preparing and hosting brown bag seminars for in-house client service management staff, general staff, and targeted clients. -Work closely with MSLs to develop hiring strategies for improving the depth and skills of our talent trees. Lead search for strategic technology-based hires. -Review technical paper requests, abstracts and papers. -Identify and appoint Technology Leads to advance the practice within the areas of their specific expertise and measure their performance through annual PDPs and goal setting. -Work with the Market Segment Lead, Project Directors and Quality Manager to assist in providing QA/QC support by ensuring appropriate skilled staff are reviewing projects and assigned initiatives. -Provide cross training for skills developed under their practice. -Participate in and/or provide technical input on client sales calls and presentations. -Support CBDO and CTO in development of strategic growth plans based on technology advancement. -Research and provide regulatory updates to practices covered by their technology. -Advance our branding strategy as thought leaders of our industry by participating in associations within their practice area and volunteering for leadership positions. This also includes participating in technology focus groups, writing for technical publications and make presentations at conferences. Encourage and support other members of their practice to do the same.

Requirements

• power distribution
• transmission
• substation
• bachelor's
• pe license
• 15 yrs

What You Bring

-Knowledge of Power Distribution, Transmission, and Substation required -Bachelor’s Degree in area of practice required -Professional Engineering License required -15 years of experience in the Power Industry required

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About Wade Trim

-Headquartered in Detroit, the firm designs and oversees projects like water treatment plants, roads, bridges and recreational parks. -Experts in civil engineering, landscape architecture, planning, surveying and environmental science collaborate across multiple disciplines. -Construction services include bid prep, scheduling, BIM, QA/QC, commissioning and close-out processes. -The firm specializes in stormwater management, sanitary sewers, water transmission pipelines, and traffic systems. -Innovation is encouraged through awards, an innovation hub, and AI tools like hydraulic-model autocalibration.

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