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Description The Protection Applications Department Manager is responsible for the managerial direction, leadership, development, and growth of the Protection Applications (PA) Department within Burns & McDonnell's Midwest Region Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Global Practice. This role is responsible for developing a high-performing team, supporting and executing business strategy, promoting Burns & McDonnell's MacCulture principles, and ensuring the department delivers high-quality technical work while supporting the needs of our clients and business.

The Department Manager will maintain an active connection to Protection Applications engineering and project execution while carrying full accountability for the leadership and management responsibilities of the department.

Specific areas of responsibility include:

Leadership & Culture

+ Provide overall leadership and direction to the Protection Applications Department through clear expectations, accountability, effective communication, empowerment, and sound decision-making.

+ Advocate for Protection Applications staff with T&D and Burns & McDonnell leadership and help ensure the needs of the department and its employee-owners are understood and appropriately addressed.

+ Maintain an accessible and approachable leadership presence and provide timely follow-up on employee, project, and organizational needs.

+ Communicate department priorities, decisions, expectations, and business context with transparency and consistency.

+ Foster a healthy, collaborative, and inclusive employee-owner culture grounded in Burns & McDonnell's MacCulture principles, safety, quality, integrity, accountability, teamwork, and outstanding service.

+ Promote equitable and consistent people practices and decision-making across the department.

+ Drive a culture focused on safety and compliance with company, regional, project, and client safety requirements.

+ Develop and foster an innovation culture that challenges existing approaches and leverages tools, technology, and processes to improve quality, efficiency, and the employee and client experience.

+ Interpret and support company and T&D policies, procedures, initiatives, and strategic objectives within the department.

+ Develop leadership capability within the department and create opportunities for employees to grow their influence, ownership, and leadership skills.

Career Development & Performance Management

+ Meet regularly with department staff to understand career interests, development needs, performance, workload, and short- and long-term goals.

+ Provide employees with coaching, guidance, feedback, and opportunities that support their continued development.

+ Educate employees about career paths and opportunities throughout T&D and help them develop the knowledge, skills, experience, and relationships necessary to pursue their desired career path.

+ Lead and conduct the annual performance appraisal process and support other performance and development conversations throughout the year.

+ Establish clear performance expectations and provide timely, candid, and constructive feedback.

+ Work with Human Resources and appropriate leaders to identify, prepare, communicate, and monitor performance improvement plans when additional performance support or accountability is needed.

+ Identify technical, project delivery, leadership, and professional development needs and coordinate training opportunities with technical teams, business line leadership, and other departments.

+ Promote mentoring, knowledge sharing, succession planning, and development of future technical and people leaders within the department.

Collaboration & Communication

+ Establish effective and consistent communication practices for the department, recognizing that employees may require different methods and levels of communication to remain informed and engaged.

+ Proactively share relevant business, staffing, project, organizational, and Global Practice information with department staff.

+ Coordinate and collaborate with T&D business line leadership, project managers, account managers, and other department leaders to align the needs and development of our people with the needs of the business.

+ Develop a strong partnership with Substation leadership and other closely aligned T&D disciplines to promote coordinated project delivery and team cohesion.

+ Communicate and coordinate regularly with Protection Applications leadership throughout the T&D Global Practice regarding staffing, workload, clients, pursuits, technical initiatives, training, and overall business line strategy.

+ Build strong relationships across offices and regions to support resource sharing, knowledge transfer, consistent practices, and successful project delivery.

+ Support T&D and regional initiatives and effectively lead the department through organizational and business change.

Recruiting, Onboarding & Retention

+ Develop and maintain an annual personnel and workforce strategy aligned with department workload, anticipated growth, succession needs, and the broader T&D business plan.

+ Partner proactively with Human Resources and Recruiting to identify and attract candidates who align with Burns & McDonnell's MacCulture principles and the department's technical and business needs.

+ Participate in recruiting through appropriate channels, including experienced-hire recruiting, employee referrals, university recruiting, internships, internal transfers, and other talent pipelines.

+ Lead thoughtful and consistent candidate assessment practices designed to identify the qualifications necessary for success while providing candidates with professional and equitable experience.

+ Support diverse candidate pools and interview teams and utilize structured interview questions tied directly to the qualifications and expectations of the position.

+ Lead and coordinate onboarding for employees transitioning into the department, including interns, new graduates, experienced hires, internal transfers, contract employees, and converted contract employees.

+ Promote employee retention by creating meaningful development opportunities, maintaining appropriate workloads, recognizing contributions, addressing concerns, and fostering an environment in which employees can build successful careers.

Resource & Business Management

+ Regularly review department workload, staffing, utilization, and employee assignments to ensure resources are effectively deployed and employees have opportunities that support both project needs and professional development.

+ Coordinate staffing assignments with project managers, project engineers, and T&D leadership to support efficient, cost-effective project execution.

+ Monitor department chargeability, staff loading, and workload forecasts and take appropriate action to support established business and financial objectives.

+ Balance project demands with employee strengths, technical development needs, c...

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