Principal

Principal, Electrical Department Manager
About Us
At AlfaTech we believe in more than just engineering solutions; we believe in promoting a culture of agility, collaboration, and inclusion. As a leading consulting engineering firm, we provide thoughtful engineering design that is technologically forward thinking, innovative, and environmentally conscious, ensuring that our contribution to our built environment is flexible, sustainable, and lasting across all the market segments we serve.
If you're driven by a passion for engineering, innovation, and making a difference, if you thrive on challenges and adapt quickly to change, and if you are looking to be part of a dynamic team of empowered, smart, energized, professionals, then AlfaTech is the place for you.
Job Summary
This position is for an outgoing leader with extensive engineering experience and a desire to pass along this experience to the balance of the San Jose office electrical department. In addition to acting as a lead electrical engineer/project manager on a variety of projects, the tasks for this position include providing leadership, mentoring, and workload assignments for the department of approximately 15 engineers/designers as well as recruiting and staff retention responsibilities. The department manager will work with the company leadership to establish and maintain the engineering standards and quality assurance procedures for production.
Core Responsibilities
Annual performance reviews of staff
Recruiting and interview of potential candidates for hire
Review and negotiation of legal contracts and terms and conditions with oversight from Corporate staff
Managing staff and allocation of resources to meet project deadlines
Effective meeting minutes and action item tracking.
Development of fee proposals and project scopes of work
Development and implementation of quality assurance standards
Supervision of design production including Quality Assurance procedures
Assign electrical project management and support engineering roles on new projects
Manage weekly meetings to convey staff assignments and balancing workloads
Review, Mentor, Train, Promote and where necessary, terminate department staff
Develop and maintain training programs and resources for staff growth
Serve as Lead Electrical Project Engineer or AlfaTech Project Manager
Project Financial Management including coordination with in-house accounting staff
Process plans through a variety of Plan Check agencies and obtain their approvals
Perform Contractor Submittal Review, RFI responses, and Construction observations
Preparation of detailed designs including calculations and specifications
Communicate directly with clients (presentations, proposal preparation, meetings, etc.)
Job site investigation and construction observation
Preparation of Due Diligence, Feasibility, and Basis of Design reports in addition to project manager skills, successful candidate must have a demonstrated skill level at Electrical engineering including:
Power, lighting and low voltage system design and component selections
Completing project tasks within established design budgets.
Coordination of equipment with architectural/structural designs and with in-house M/P engineers
Coordination with equipment vendors and suppliers for selected equipment.
Recognized as technical expert, self motivated to keep up with industry changes.
This is meant to summarize the role’s responsibilities and provide some information and structure. At AlfaTech we encourage our staff to think outside the box and explore opportunities beyond the confines of ones stated responsibilities to bring new thoughts, ideas and innovations to our company.
Ideal Candidate
Minimum 12 years direct experience with Consulting or Design Build Electrical firm
Knowledge of codes, standards, and construction/engineering processes.
Excellent oral and written communication skills. Excellent computer skills (EE analysis programs, Microsoft Office programs, AutoCAD and Revit)
Electrical Engineer Registration (PE) preferred
LEED Accreditation desired
Essential Requirements
Project Management experience.
Direct Supervision of support staff experience
Salary Range
This is a hybrid role. It is anticipated that the working days in the office will be done at our San Jose, CA office. The expected salary range for candidates who will work in San Jose, CA is $160,000 - $190,000 annually. The final offer to our new team member will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the length, breadth, and depth of experience within the job and the industry, education, etc. ATCE is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states.

Employment type
Full-Time

Work arrangement
No