Engineering Manager

With offices in Australia, Canada, USA, Southern Africa, Ghana, Philippines, Argentina and Peru, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

Lycopodium is currently recruiting for a Engineering Manager to join our growing Engineering team in Mississauga, Ontario.

Reporting to the Manager of Engineering - Americas the Engineering Manager - Is Project Based is accountable to manage and direct the multi-discipline engineering / drafting teams to produce outputs that are fit for purpose, in alignment with project requirements and produced in a timely and cost effective manner.

The tasks you'll perform

• Demonstrate creativity, foresight, and mature judgement in anticipating and solving design issues
• Design approval of drawings, standards, specifications and procedures.
• Monitor the progress and performance of the project design team and give input and provide feedback and support where necessary.
• Preparation of man-hour budgets and design schedules for Study /EPCM estimates.
• Facilitate design reviews through the development stages of the project design.
• Assist with pre-commissioning activities and manage field engineering.
• Manage subordinates’ review of vendor certified documentation (drawings, data sheets, manuals, lube lists, etc.) and the dissemination of vendor information to discipline engineers / drafting resources for interface checking.
• Management of and responsibility for multi-discipline design and drafting resources assigned to allocated tasks to achieve agreed deliverable dates and man-hour budgets.
• Follow and implement all relevant Company standards and procedures and ensure design drawings comply with all relevant Australian and International Standards.
• Compile project reporting requirements in accordance with Company and Client standards to a high level of accuracy and professionalism.
• Monitor the progress and performance of the project design team and give input and provide feedback and support where necessary.
• Contribute to engineers in trainings professional development by providing consistent mentoring and identify avenues of development.
• Provide technical support and input to proposals, customer presentations, and other marketing, business development activities. Prepare design scope, budget and schedule for written proposals.
• Develop and contribute to the delivery of improvement initiatives which support business priorities for continuous improvement.
• Suggest methods to improve operational efficiency.
• Ensure a high level of communication is attained with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide leadership, guidance and direction to the design team as required.
• Travel on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and its operations.

The expertise you'll bring

• Extremely well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Build and sustain positive relationships with all stakeholders, including clients, vendors and co-workers.
• Exemplify and encourage the core values and ethos of the business.
• Intuitive leader with the ability to initiate, lead and manage change in a complex environment.
• Provide mentoring and identify avenues of professional development and succession planning to personnel within your team.
• Capacity to delegate appropriately.
• Capacity to evaluate work practices, implement systems and suggest alternatives and refinements where necessary.
• Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision whilst consistently producing a high quality of deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve consistently high standards within both budgetary and schedule constraints.
• High attention to detail and exceptional knowledge of engineering drawings.
• Solid technical aptitude, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient understanding of business acumen with the ability to adapt to different business environments.
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility and commitment.
• Demonstrate a strict practice of…