Department Manager, Structural Engineering

Quick Facts

Department Manager responsible for functional, technical, and people leadership for the Civil/Structural/Architectural Department.

Description

Lead and manage Civil, Structural, and Architectural engineering talent to deliver safe, high-quality, commercially effective engineering and design services. Accountable for people leadership, technical capability, workforce planning, project support, execution excellence, and continuous improvement across the department. Promote engineering standards, technical assurance, constructability, sustainability, and the adoption of digital/data-centric and AI-enabled delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead Civil, Structural, and Architectural engineers, designers, technical specialists, and discipline leads
• Recruit, retain, develop, and engage personnel to meet business needs
• Set performance expectations and conduct regular performance and career development discussions
• Maintain succession and development plans for key technical and leadership roles
• Build capability via competency assessment, training, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and appropriate work assignments
• Ensure projects are staffed with personnel who have the right competency and experience
• Coordinate with Project Managers, Project Engineering Managers, Lead Engineers, and other Department Managers to support planning and execution
• Monitor resource, technical, quality, schedule, and execution risks and drive timely corrective action
• Ensure work complies with internal, customer, statutory/regulatory, professional engineering, and quality requirements
• Promote consistent application of engineering standards, specifications, work processes, checking practices, and lessons learned
• Promote safety in design, technical assurance, constructability, sustainability, and appropriate professional engineering oversight
• Support engineering estimates, schedules, staffing plans, execution plans, proposals, and technical qualifications
• Maintain workload visibility, utilization, staffing requirements, and forecast resource demand
• Collaborate across locations/regions to balance workload and access specialist capability
• Promote standardization, digital engineering, automation, data-centric delivery, and appropriate AI-enabled tools
• Support customer engagement and business development activities where discipline leadership is required
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and accountable environment focused on safety, quality, development, continuous improvement, and customer outcomes

Requirements

• 15+ years of relevant Civil, Structural, Architectural, or multidisciplinary engineering experience, including significant experience on complex engineering projects
• 5+ years of engineering management, discipline leadership, department management, or comparable people-leadership experience
• Demonstrated experience leading engineers, designers, and technical professionals
• Strong understanding of Civil/Structural/Architectural engineering and multidisciplinary project execution
• Working knowledge of applicable engineering codes, standards, statutory/regulatory requirements, quality processes, and technical assurance practices
• Demonstrated experience in workforce planning, resource forecasting, project staffing, and personnel development
• Experience supporting engineering estimates, schedules, and execution plans
• Strong leadership, communication, collaboration, and decision-making skills
• Ability to work effectively with customers, project teams, functional leaders, and geographically distributed teams
• Commercial awareness linking engineering performance to project performance and customer outcomes
• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Architecture, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution

Benefits

• Values-inspired culture focused on safety, quality, employee development, continuous improvement, and customer outcomes
• Reskilling support and transition planning toward low-carbon energy infrastructure and technology expertise
• Inclusive, diverse workplace focused on belonging, connection, and innovation