Responsible for work force staffing, budgeting, quality control, standards development, and technical excellence within the department. Suggest, justifies and implements improvements and creative solutions for problems.

• Oversee and supervise discipline engineering and design staff. Overall technical responsibility for all discipline design activities. Overall responsibility for discipline design QA/QC, including technical discipline audits as required.
• Coordinate design resource/staffing requirements with project teams, including participation in weekly staff meetings. Coordinate design activities to be executed outside of office with direct and contract personnel. Responsible for recruiting, interviewing, and hiring discipline design personnel. Responsible for interfacing with HR, and promptly addressing personnel issues - including disciplinary action and termination where required. Evaluate technical requirements on projects, and support proposal activities with internal engineering cost and AFE estimates.
• Review project scoping documents, including design basis and deliverable registry.
• Coordinate discipline design specific technical training and development, including mentoring and technical support.
• Coordinate development of discipline design specific tools, standards, templates, etc.
• Evaluate and approve 3rd party applications used by discipline designers.
• Conduct performance reviews on staff personnel.
• Approve time and expenses for discipline design personnel.
• Manage department billability and control nonbillable expenses.
• Develop marketing materials specific to the Civil/Structural discipline.
• Participate in business development sales calls.
• Coordinate continuing improvement with other remote offices.
• Develop and execute employee development plans. Demonstrates a continuing consciousness of safety in daily activities and implemented in work designed.

• Required: BS in Civil or Structural engineering from an ABET accredited university.
• Required: 15+ years of progressive experience in the field of Civil/Structural Engineering, preferably in the oil, gas, or petrochemical industry.
• Required: Professional Engineering license in Texas.
• Required: Proficiency in RISA3D, STADD, SPColumn, AutoCAD, Plant 3D software suites.
• Oversee and supervise discipline engineering and design staff with technical responsibility for all discipline design activities and QA/QC including technical discipline audits as required.
• Coordinate internal, remote, and external design resource/staffing requirements with project teams, including participation in weekly staff meetings.
• Manage department billability and control nonbillable expenses, including self-billable workload.
• Language Skills : Ability to read, write, and comprehend instructions, correspondence, and memos, all in English. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization. Ability to comprehend and complete testing for Safety Orientations through either written, verbal or computer interaction, as required by tester
• Reasoning Abilities: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral and diagram form. Must possess problem-solving skills and the ability to resolve issues involving multiple variables.
• Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to touch, grasp, and feel; ability to reach with hands and arms; speak or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and sit; climb, balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision depth perception, and ability to focus.
• Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may periodically be required to travel to client jobsites, usually petrochemical production facilities and must have the ability to access all areas as required. Therefore, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; and the risk of electric shock. The noise level in the industrial workplace can be loud. The Engineer must exercise caution and use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), as specified by CDI and the Clients, to ensure their own safety and the safety of their co-workers.
• Expectations for All Employees: All CDI employees must demonstrate their support for the Quality as a Business Strategy and the following Quality Goals are a part of every job. Produce clear and organized output, with conformance to standards. Recognize that we all have internal and external customers who are dependent on the quality and timeliness of our output to meet their commitments. Coordinate assigned work to support all customers. While contributing to common goals, be open to new ideas and be able to subordinate individual preferences for the good of the customer, project, team, and company. Promptly act on established goals, understand constructive advice, and adjust to changing directions. Independently undertake actions, make recommendations, or provide notification when potential problems and opportunities develop, or additional assignments are required. Employees should utilize problem-solving techniques to improve CDI internal processes on an employee-to-employee basis where possible. Note: This job description is not a contract. The company reserves the right to alter the information provided based on changing job requirements.
• Leadership: Acts Wisely and Decisively, Self-Confident, Leads Proactively, Builds Best Teams, Coaching and Mentoring, Motivates Other, Drives for Results, resolves conflicts, Work Standards, Attention to Detail, Acting with Integrity, Analyzing Issues, Using Technical Expertise, identifying problem areas, Planning and Organizing, Continuous Improvement, Business Acumen, Customer Responsiveness, Leveraging Networks, Knows the business, Judgment, Innovative Thinking, Looks for new opportunities, Negotiating.

“Together We Make Life Better”. Our quality engineering, sustainable solutions and safety record inspire everything we do. Our diverse and inclusive workforce allows for all employees to feel valued and safe to give their opinions and improve our company.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

CDI Corporation is an EEO/An Affirmative Action M/F/D/V Employer.

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