Digital Buildings Engineering Manager

Mission: We are looking for a GEC Engineering Manager to drive the strategic transformation of the engineering function within the Digital Buildings systems & project business. The aim is to increase our competitiveness & improve our margins through establishing a collaborative working relationship between the countries and our Global Engineering Centre for BMS based in India. This is a key integration position, and the successful candidate must work well within a multi-cultural team. The key requirement is to unlock the many possibilities in business improvement/efficiency and growth by facilitating, driving change and providing support. You will be an excellent communicator at all levels, proactive and exhibit strong collaborative qualities.

Responsibilities:

• Working with the GEC Leader and Country DB Management create an action plan for growth of offshore hardware design, software and graphics engineering, from the Country to GEC.
• Working closely with the VP of Digital Energy Systems Europe & France to identify & engage key operation, tendering & sales country leadership to bring them onboard with GEC delivery within identified projects.
• In collaboration with country stakeholders create clear sales opportunities appropriate for GEC support and support local tendering teams with accurate costing and saving plans of delivery by GEC teams.
• Work with country operation leaders to identify appropriate GEC opportunities from live backlog projects.
• Through identification of sales & backlog pipelines agreed with country teams build monthly and yearly forecast of GEC man hours to be delivered in each region.
• Build labour savings forecasts and monitor against as delivered projects via the GEC to present to country leadership teams monthly/yearly savings from delivered projects.
• Provide programme management to all GEC projects within Europe & France delivered by the GEC team, ensuring progress reporting, timely delivery & accurate invoicing is carried out.
• Track & monitor GEC estimation requests, ensuring timely costs for engineering resources are accurate and competitive delivered to country teams.
• Manage quality process of delivered projects, identified country standards are adhered to and lessons learned on projects are carried out.
• Build & report monthly KPI dashboard to European leadership team clearly identifying qty of hours delivered per country, cost savings achieved and forecasted hours vs targets.
• Agree with Country VPs yearly targets on delivered hours via the GEC and scope of projects to suit their business and sectors.
• Support GEC engineering community in identifying training needs and linking in the appropriate SMEs from in country to support development of GEC engineers.
• Work with the GEC leader to ensure the appropriate resource management and capacity planning is in place.
• Support local team during tendering process to ensure we build a competitive and realistic offshore cost model.
• Drive & monitor on time delivery from GEC to Country.
• Actively measure quality & internal customer satisfaction. Ensure corrective actions are rapidly put in place if necessary.

The Engineering Manager role would report to the GEC Leader in India, with a dotted reporting line into the Digital Buildings Country management team.

Skills & Experience:

• Experience working with global teams will be important, different nationalities & cultures.
• Strong team interaction & collaboration skills.
• Self-driven & passionate about efficiency and growth.
• Strong technical, business & financial acumen.
• Good understanding of tendering/estimating and cost management for BMS hardware design, software, and graphics.
• Working knowledge of pre-sales activities and project execution environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to influence and convince at engineer, manager and leadership level.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to implement new initiatives.
• Highly focused & results oriented.

Highly Desirable:

• Experience in managing change and leading transformation.
• Experience in project portfolio management (PMO type of role), project manager and/or engineering manager of BMS systems.
• BMS industry competence & proven track record.
• PMP certification or any other project management, program management certification is a plus.

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