Staff Engineer, Engineering Design & Technologists

Job Title Staff Engineer Position Overview

Company Overview:
Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is a leader in flooring and other surface solutions designed for residential housing, commercial spaces and outdoor environments. Leveraging strengths in design, innovation and operational excellence, the company takes a people-centered, customer-focused, and growth-minded approach to meet diverse market needs. It creates differentiated customer experiences through its expansive portfolio of brands:
Anderson Tuftex, COREtec, Shaw Floors, Patcraft, Philadelphia Commercial, Shaw Contract, Shaw Sports Turf, Shawgrass, Southwest Greens, Watershed Geo and more.

Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, Shaw is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with more than $6 billion in annual sales and 18,000 associates worldwide.

Shaw Industries Corporate Engineering (CE) provides engineering support for the corporation’s manufacturing, distribution, sales and administrative facilities. The department provides feasibility studies, high-level budgets, project development, detailed cost estimates, engineering, design, project management, consulting, and CAD services. CE has specialists to serve the needs of each segment of the business. Staff include mechanical, electrical, & civil engineers, project managers, interior designers, and CAD designers, as well as administrative staff.

Under the limited direction of the Engineering Manager, this position is primarily responsible and accountable for project development, design, and execution, with a secondary focus on technical support for manufacturing facilities. Work is often multi-disciplined and requires close coordination with manufacturing management, other corporate departments, and outside agencies. While project assignments may at times overlap into other disciplines such as mechanical systems and manufacturing processes, the primary focus of this position is electrical and power systems.

This position is responsible for collecting design criteria, preparing detailed schedules, preparing technical specifications, developing engineering designs, assembling project estimates, creating engineered drawings, and utilizing project management tools to ensure projects meet safety, quality, schedule, performance, and budget requirements.

• Project Development and Administration
• Develop and execute capital and expensed projects, sometimes large and complex, with detailed scopes of work, detailed schedules, and appropriations-grade budgets.
• Solicit detailed stakeholder design criteria and translate them into actionable technical designs, plans, and scope elements to ensure achievement of project objectives.
• Partner with project stakeholders to develop project options and proposals to facilitate decision-making by business leaders.
• Develop and submit detailed documentation required to solicit project approval through online project administration software tools.
• Maintain project files and publish periodic project reports.
• Project Management and Execution
• Consistently apply technical standards, engineering best practices, project management processes, and project management tools, and champion the use of the same with facility-level engineering teams.
• Track spending and maintain control of project cost performance. Act as the primary point of accountability for adherence to the project budgets.
• Manage onsite contractor activities, ensuring consistent enforcement of regulatory, corporate and plant policies such as safety, ethics, environmental, etc.
• Minimize project-related disruptions to normal plant activities and coordinate necessary disruptions with plant management in advance.
• Perform project-related quality control functions, inspecting vendor-supplied equipment and construction work to ensure compliance with specifications, drawings, timeline requirements, and other requirements as defined in contract packages.
• Provide an active onsite resource for project commissioning, startup, and optimization.

• Possess strong knowledge of the design of electrical systems in an industrial environment including 12470 Volt, 4160 Volt,…