The Site Leader key responsibilities include overseeing daily operations of the project-based revenue business stream, optimizing processes, managing resources, ensuring quality control, developing strategies, and leading teams to achieve organizational goals. The site leader will ensure the safety and efficiencies of the facility are upheld, while collaboratively executing the methods and principles of the Dorsett Controls workflows and best practices. In addition, the Site Leader will manage and enhance the automation engineering processes and procedures employed by all teams in the execution of their project tasks. A culture of continuous improvement is desired in this position.
REPORTS TO: Director of Operations
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Leading, directing and organizing the efforts of the project implementation and engineering workforce, ensuring standards compliance and quality outcomes.
- Support the integrated and single-source SCADA growth expansion efforts through facilitating effective engineering leadership, training and support to other engineers and staff.
- Identify critical technical roadblocks and risks, while providing the resources to navigate through situations.
- Coach/mentor other members of the team.
- Directly manage the engineering process and the implementation of objectives and overall activities to facilitate standardization of design, execution strategy/methods, and support approaches.
- Supports technical efforts by leading and/or participating in the product selection, design, or evaluation as required and applicable.
- Drive standardization, continuous improvement, and financial performance for the site.
- Contribute operations information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; prepare and complete action plans; implement production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolve problems; identify trends.
- Analyze and improve organizational process and workflow.
- Communicate customer issues with automation engineering team and devise ways of improving the customer experience, including resolving problems and complaints.
- Serve as primary point of contact when there are customer issues related to equipment quality, customer service, or accidents and mishaps on-site.
- Work closely with project managers and management team to set and/or implement policies, procedures, and systems and to follow through with implementation.
- Provide input and feedback to product development teams for future development projects, products and solutions.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, or related field of study.
- 5+ years' experience in project engineering with 2+ years in similar role with business and financial experience is required.
- "Big picture" thinking to address top-level concerns.
- Interpersonal skills to communicate with executives and staff employees.
- Understanding of financial and budgeting processes and principles.
- Strong personal and professional judgement.
- Adaptability to respond quickly to a shifting reality and adjust initiatives and priorities.
- Organizational skills and the flexibility to jump from priority to priority.
- Comfortable with legal and regulatory processes to ensure company compliance.
