Engineering Director

Engineering Director – West Palm Beach, Florida

Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions to many of the world’s top-recognized brands and companies, is actively seeking an Engineering Director to join our Building & Construction team in West Palm Beach, Florida
. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow a versatile career in Building Products with our Building and Construction team.

Intertek's Building and Construction division is a suite of Intertek brands that are industry leaders across multiple architecture, engineering and construction disciplines, developing the most innovative product and project solutions. Intertek's project-related assurance, testing, inspection and consulting services are the risk management and quality assurance partner you need to ensure the reliability, safety and performance of your new developments, existing assets and facilities.

Intertek is continually innovating and evolving to reduce risk for consumers, brands and organizations in every sector and industry around the world. We go beyond Testing, Inspection and Certification of products: we are a Total Quality Assurance Provider to industries worldwide. Our

Purpose:

Bringing quality, safety, and sustainability to life.

What are we looking for?

The Engineering Director is responsible for the day-to-day management of multiple teams of project engineers, senior project engineers and P.E.s including managing the operational budget and assisting with the development and direction of strategic plans and growth initiatives.

Our engineering group is an essential part of our global certification team as it develops testing, evaluation and certification solutions for our building products customers globally.

Additionally, the Engineering Director will be responsible for industry engagement and participation at technical committees and industry associations.

Individual compensation packages are based on a variety of factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other job-related reasons.

In addition to competitive compensation packages, when working with Intertek you can expect benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k) with company match, generous vacation / sick time (PTO), tuition reimbursement and more.

• Manage and direct personnel in the assigned evaluation services teams performing product evaluations for building products in support of product certification
• Manage our Code Compliance Research Report Program
• Develop our Evaluation Services offering in Canada
• Provide technical guidance to our engineers globally and ensure compliance with SOPs
• Manage budgeted costs and exceed monthly production/revenue and profit goals
• Assess, monitor, report, and improve on lab productivity
• Identify and develop processes to enhance and maximize efficiencies and margin/expense
• Coordinate with other working groups (laboratories, certification team, etc) to effectively reach and exceed targeted goals and manage customers and project expectations
• Mentor and develop staff by setting appropriate goals and objectives
• Maintain facility assets in accordance with Intertek Safety, Health, Quality and Compliance Policies
• Attend technical trade or association meetings and
• Serve as a technical resource to employees and clients
• Make recommendations on improvements to operational processes to maximum efficiencies
• Interact with clients, accreditors and/or Authority Having Jurisdiction
• Provide support to engineering and sales
• Make business recommendations on capital expenditures and other initiatives
• Promote new business opportunities
• Perform other work as required such as Project reviews.
• Perform billable projects

This position outline is a general guideline and does not represent all encompassing details. The position assumes that the incumbent has both the mental and physical requirements to carry out the above defined duties.

• College Degree in engineering and/or business administration.
• Minimum of 12 years technical management experience in an engineering environment, preferably within a testing,…