Akima Support Operations is looking for a Director of Engineering. To join our team of outstanding professionals, apply today!

Responsibilities

• Demonstrated ability to successfully oversee an annual budget of $300M.

• Demonstrated ability to lead a 150+ diverse engineering workforce.

• Manage engineering function with engineers matrixed into operations across multiple sites.

• Serves as Design Authority.

• Develop designs that are recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices in compliance with regulatory and permitting requirements, maintaining configuration control of all design documentation, including as-built drawings.

• Provide engineering services to maintain and optimize operations, including mechanical engineering, developing, and implementing system health monitoring and improvement plans, performing value engineering reviews and overseeing production of design products.

• Provide design and engineering services supporting site upgrades, modifications, and installations.

• Perform value engineering to reduce DOE’s real property asset ownership costs and perform cost benefit studies to evaluate alternate packaging and loading to reduce cost of waste disposition.

• Process engineering change proposals.

• Perform hazardous analysis and engineering services for balance of plant activities, including facilities maintenance and capital and general-purpose projects.

• Lead fire protection and security engineering.

Qualifications

• ≥20 years in engineering in DOE or similar oil and gas facility.

• ≥10 years design and maintenance engineering for hazardous chemical operations.

• Prior management of 150 people and budgets $$75M million/year.

• Previous leadership of a project/program engineering organization with matrixed staff across multiple facilities and locations.

• Demonstrated ability to improve site productivity through engineering innovations.

• Notable examples of successful delivery of site upgrades, modifications and installations resulting in improved production.

• Track record for improving project performance through value engineering.

• MS, Engineering (chemical, mechanical, electrical) preferred.

• BS, Engineering (chemical, mechanical, electrical) required.

• Training, Licenses, and Recognized Certifications.

• Preferred = Registered Professional Engineer (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), Root Cause Analysis (or other methodology).

• U.S citizen.

• DOE Q clearance (or ability to obtain).