DBM Global Inc. · 4 days ago
Director of Engineering
Houston, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
15+ years expDBM Global Inc. is seeking a Director of Engineering to oversee the Design Assist Group's engineering and sales efforts. This role involves managing engineering functions, fostering team collaboration, and ensuring the delivery of optimized designs within budget and time constraints.
Manufacturing
Responsibilities
Create and maintain partnerships with sales and estimating; pre-con and construction planning, on bids opportunities requiring engineering expertise. Participate in a partnership pulse survey and 60 day partner meetings in order to provide executive summary demonstrating business needs are being met and the deliver of a transparent schedule
Teach, coach, motivate, provide technical direction and guidance and evaluate team. Sets department policy and operating procedures, resolves scheduling and resource conflicts, and reviews and approves major department programs and projects. Build a team highly skilled, cross functional team, with bench depth, to support Design/Assist, construction engineering, construction design. Formulate long term objectives and standards of performance for the department
Align strategic objectives to the design/build team, guiding teams to develop solutions that build future capabilities
Build, create and sustain a design review QA/QC processes that is documented on all major design deliverables. Conduct and provide quarterly audits of review templates
Develop a method to forecast the level of completion for design of jobs against the pull schedule. Provide a job matrix for complexity/schedule to ensure efficiency
Ensure final work product is defendable whether it is the most basic or most innovative solution for a given project
Provide construction engineering services when the company requires the department to manage/perform the engineering. Monitor engineering services through field pulse surveys, tracking number of incidents and monitoring budget to target
Provide and manage connection engineering for bids and for awarded projects. Monitor and report through the connection material and piece count budget. Validate informational milestones are met per PSAR/pull schedule
Accountable for ensuring rational approach to design alternatives / VG. Options through auditing and tracking of number of times engineering is proactively sought out by the business and/or our customers
Provide a competitive advantage by differentiating SS through utilization of design structure that will allow for more cost-effective solution, ensuring each hit rate on target jobs are meeting the companies expectations
Provide oversite for erection procedures provided by third party erectors, reporting out the number of incidents as well as ensuring annual documented audit is completed and recorded in job file
Qualification
Required
Must have experience in structural modeling with at least three of the following analytical software RAM, SAP, ETABS, STAAD, RISA and others
A minimum of fifteen (15) years related industry structural engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a management role
A bachelor's degree in Engineering is required
BS Degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering
Must have a SE license in AZ and/or CA or equal
Must be extremely knowledgeable in Seismic Design and Analysis as well as Wind Design
Must have a working knowledge of the basics of Erection Engineering for support of our Erection Engineering staff
High attention to detail, accuracy, and thoroughness
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to read and interpret technical and legal documents
Familiarity of steel estimating systems
Leadership Abilities (Coaching & Mentoring)
Knowledge of Structural Steel fabrication and erection standards
Material Pricing
Workforce Planning
Continuous Improvement methodologies
Conflict Resolution
Teamwork/Collaboration
Budget Planning/Forecasting
Extensive knowledge of MS Windows 7 and/or MS Windows 10, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Outlook
Blue Beam PDF Software, SES (Schuff Estimating System) and AutoCAD
Preferred
A MS in Structural Engineering is desirable
Advanced education may be a substitute for additional years of the required experience
Company
DBM Global Inc.
Majority-owned by INNOVATE Corp.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$220MKey Investors
UMB Bank
2025-05-20Post Ipo Debt· $220M
1997-07-01IPO
Leadership Team
R
Rustin Roach
President & CEO of DBM Global, Inc
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