Electrical Engineering Discipline Leader North Central Region

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients our communities and our planet. If this sparks your interest youre in the right place.

Electrical Engineering Discipline Leader North Central Region (Minneapolis MN / Chicago IL)

We are an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients our communities and our planet. If this sparks your interest youre in the right place.

Location

Minneapolis MN or Chicago IL

Position Summary

The Engineering team has an opening for an Electrical Engineering Discipline Leader to support our North Central Region.

As the Electrical Engineering Discipline Leader you will provide leadership for the regional electrical engineering practice guiding operations project execution team development and client engagement across a diverse portfolio of sectors including Higher Education K-12 Arts & Culture Justice Civic Workplace Retail Hospitality and more.

The successful candidate will:

• Lead operations execution and strategic direction for the North Central electrical engineering team.
• Develop communicate and implement operational plans including staffing scheduling and team objectives.
• Direct and coordinate activities of engineers designers consultants and vendors.
• Manage team assignments resource planning and workload balancing to support project and growth goals.
• Partner with sector and practice leadership on recruiting mentoring performance management and team development.
• Support business development efforts through proposal development client interviews and relationship building.
• Actively engage in professional and community organizations to strengthen the DLR Group brand and market presence.
• Foster a high-performing collaborative and inclusive team culture.
• Lead the design of electrical building systems from concept through construction administration.
• Prepare and oversee engineering calculations electrical system layouts reports and technical narratives.
• Coordinate closely with owners architects and multidisciplinary design teams to deliver integrated solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or Architectural Engineering.
• Licensed Professional Engineer (PE).
• 812 years of experience designing electrical building systems on complex projects.
• Prior experience leading engineering teams and mentoring technical staff.
• Experience with specification writing construction administration multidisciplinary coordination scheduling and management of multiple projects.
• Strong client relationship and communication experience.
• Experience with a consulting engineering or A/E firm designing systems for education civic workplace hospitality sports cultural or similar project types.
• Working knowledge of current electrical design software including Revit AGi32 and SKM PowerTools.
• Appreciation for architectural design and integrated project delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

Professional Engineer licensure in Minnesota and/or Illinois (or ability to obtain through reciprocity).

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture engineering interiors planning and building optimization for new builds renovations and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration open information sharing shared risk and reward value-based decision making and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge the ME2040 and the SE2050 and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values commitment creativity environmental stewardship fun integrity ownership sharing teamwork we elevate the human experience through design together.

DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.