Electrical Engineering Department Manager

AECOM's Roanoke, VA office is hiring an Electrical Engineering Manager to work on various designs of high-performance buildings within multiple sectors including Corporate Workplace and Commercial buildings, Federal Civilian and DoD, Healthcare, Mission Critical, Justice, and Higher Education projects.

This role will be an integral part of the AECOM's B+P Practice, we are seeing inviduals with a passion for people management, technical expertise and interest in marketing and business development.

Responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to:

• Performs various management and leadership responsibilities for the Electrical Engineering Department. Has full responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating technical assignments.
• Requires multi-disciplinary knowledge of engineering. Plans and develops engineering tasks concerned with unique or controversial problems. This involves exploration of a subject area, the definition of scope, and the selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.
• Maintains liaison with units within the organization and individuals inside and outside of the organization.
• Responsible for acting independently on technical matters pertaining to the field.
• Works under minimal supervision. Supervision received is essentially administrative with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.
• Supervises a group of engineers and/or technicians, coordinating activities of the unit.
• Acts as a Senior Engineer leading the design and engineering efforts for various projects.
• Assist in business development activities
• Assist in proposal preparation in conjunction with the senior leadership of the office
• Writing reports for internal and external purposes based on findings
• Works cooperatively with managers and other employees to achieve company's mission
• Ensures discipline plans that are created meet overall project team requirements for project scope and schedule
• Stays current on codes and technologies appropriate to the electrical and fire alarm disciplines
• Ensures conformance with standards, established design practices, applicable codes, and technical adequacy of design and construction
• Develops designs within a BIM design environment
• Review junior team member's work for quality and recognition of training requirements
• Lead junior engineers in engineering design development and professional growth

About AECOM
At AECOM, we believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. 

We take on the most complex challenges and pioneer innovative, iconic solutions that push the limits of what’s possible – the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge, record-breaking sports events, the largest greenfield port development mega project, life-sustaining disaster recovery programs, and the tallest tower in the Western Hemisphere.

On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, energy and the environment, we deliver professional services throughout the project lifecycle.

We are proud to be recognized for excellence:

• Named one of Fortune magazine's "World's Most Admired Companies" for the sixth consecutive year

• Ranked #1 in Engineering News-Record’s 2020 “Top 200 Environmental Firms”

• Ranked #1 in Transportation and General Building in Engineering News-Record’s 2020 “Top 500 Design Firms”

• VIQTORY 2020 Military Friendly® Gold Employer

Buildings + Places 

AECOM’s Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building engineering, workplace strategy, business transformation, asset advisory, economics and development planning, master planning, urban planning, and landscape architecture.
With a range of expertise from strategy and design through project realization, we create better outcomes to grow economies, protect natural systems, conserve natural resources, make societies more equitable and connect and engage people through innovative, sustainable design solutions.
Our teams have worked on signature projects such as the London 2012 Olympic Park and Legacy Framework, to the new plan for the LA2028 Olympics, to industrial facilities for GE and Rolls-Royce, to headquarters and workplaces for NASA, Unilever, Sony Music, DirecTV, Box, Inc. and many Fortune 500 companies.