Manager - Data Centers Structural

About the Position

As a Manager in Data Centers Structural Engineering, you will lead engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals supporting structural engineering for Substation and BESS yards. The role is accountable for team development, workload and resource planning, technical quality, project delivery, and accurate and timely completion of assigned work. In this role, an employee will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in the essential functions outlined below.

Essential Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, mentor, and develop engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals supporting the assigned specialty.
• Maintain accountability for the accurate, timely, and quality completion of engineering and design scopes assigned to the team.
• Establish clear expectations and support employee development through coaching, feedback, training, performance management, individualized development planning, and succession planning.
• Assess team strengths, development needs, and technical capabilities and coordinate appropriate training, mentoring, and work assignments.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, inclusive, and high-performing team environment focused on quality, safety, professional growth, and continuous improvement.
• Lead workload forecasting, resource planning, staffing decisions, team scheduling, and project performance monitoring to maintain appropriate project coverage.
• Maintain visibility into active projects, milestone dates, resource assignments, estimate-to-complete information, and workload constraints.
• Coordinate project assignments and team priorities with Project Managers, technical leaders, operations, and organizational leadership.
• Monitor team-level project budgets, estimate-to-complete information, and financial performance in coordination with Project Managers and organizational leadership.
• Identify and address workload, resource, schedule, quality, safety, and project-delivery risks before they affect project continuity or client commitments.
• Drive improvements in standards, workflows, tools, and team practices that enhance quality, consistency, efficiency, predictability, and project performance.
• Oversee structural engineering scopes for substations and BESS yards, including piles, foundations, slabs, structural loading, steel and concrete details, bills of material, and supporting calculations.
• Provide or coordinate QA/QC reviews of structural calculations, models, specifications, drawings, submittals, and construction documentation.
• Ensure designs apply applicable structural loading, foundation, steel, concrete, material, building-code, and authority-having-jurisdiction requirements.
• Support field inspection, construction services, submittal review, technical issue resolution, and multidisciplinary project coordination.
• Support equipment and material specifications, estimates, schedules, proposals, and value-engineering or commercial considerations.
• Support project planning and execution to help ensure assigned work is delivered within established scope, schedule, budget, technical, safety, and quality requirements.
• Support development of technical scopes, assumptions, estimates, schedules, proposals, and documentation for new work and project changes in coordination with Project Managers.
• Partner with Project Managers and technical leaders to coordinate multidisciplinary work and maintain appropriate coverage across project scopes.
• Support proposal development, marketing activities, client pursuits, and business development through technical input and resource-planning support.
• Support client relationships by helping resolve technical and delivery concerns and promoting consistent, responsive service.
• Perform other job-related responsibilities as assigned.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, develop, and hold accountable multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Ability to maintain accountability for team deliverable quality, schedule performance, work efficiency, and adherence to established processes.
• Strong workload-planning and resource-forecasting skills, including team assignments, project coverage, milestones, and estimate-to-complete information.
• Working knowledge of project budgets, financial performance, estimates, project controls, and operational performance measures.
• Strong technical-review and QA/QC capabilities with the ability to identify quality, constructability, compliance, coordination, and execution concerns.
• Ability to investigate and resolve technical, workload, resource, safety, and project-delivery concerns and escalate issues appropriately.
• Ability to support technical scopes, estimates, schedules, assumptions, proposals, and project-change documentation.
• Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, coaching, conflict-resolution, and stakeholder-communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Project Managers, Technical Advisors, leaders, clients, contractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Advanced knowledge of structural engineering for Substation and BESS yards, including loading, steel, concrete, piles, foundations, equipment support, applicable codes, and construction practices.
• Proficiency with engineering, design-review, project-delivery, workload-planning, and business productivity tools applicable to the assigned specialty.
• Demonstrates commitment to Atwell quality and safety standards, employee development, ethical conduct, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Structural Engineering, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution required.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
• 6-10 years of experience in structural engineering or related technical field.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, or other technical professionals.
• Experience managing team workload, resource assignments, schedules, project coverage, and technical deliverables across multiple projects.
• Experience supporting QA/QC, project budgets, forecasting, risk management, proposals, project planning, and operational improvement.

Additional Position Details

• Work is performed in a professional work environment, with work location and reporting expectations determined by business needs and position requirements. Some field work may be required.
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods and operate a computer and other office productivity equipment.
• Frequently communicates and collaborates with clients, engineers, designers, contractors, vendors, and project stakeholders.
• Must be able to move around project sites and work in indoor or outdoor environments as required.
• Travel may be required based on client and project needs.

Cultural Fit

• Independent yet Collaborative
• Dependable
• Creative Problem Solver
• Natural Communicator
• Flexible
• Results Oriented
• Client Focused
• Enthusiastic

Fair Labor Standards Act

• Exempt | Overtime pay is not required.

Disclaimer

• The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to perform the job.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the USA.
• If current job responsibilities differ from assigned duties, please contact Human Resources.