Plans, designs, and controls the progress of complex project work within the technical department to meet member/client objectives; prepares and presents research reports.

• Manages small to medium level projects without direct people management responsibilities.
• Assumes responsibility for highly specialized technical objectives or problems where the relationships between cause and effect are difficult to establish and little or no precedence exists, and the use of creative imaginative thinking is required.
• Influences project teams in the engineering aspects of the technical work.
• Provides input into configuration management and documentation for engineer related projects.
• Leads proposal efforts and new promotional work.
• Maintains familiarity with the progress and problems in assigned technical areas.
• Prepares proposals, technical publications, and delivers presentations.
• Leads national and international technical networks with manufacturers, consultants, academia, and research organizations.
• Works independently on technical activities without direct supervision

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field or equivalent experience required

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• 8-10 years of engineering experience or comparable work/educational experience.
• Ability to recognize strategic issues and build collaborative projects.
• Required limited supervision and guidance
• Responsible for the success of individual projects
• Works closely with members, contractors, staff to manage projects
• Experience in successful proposal preparation, and marketing activities.
• Manages multiple projects
• Responsible for project budgets, schedules, deliverables, and technology transfer
• Shows maturity of technical expertise and assumes responsibility for highly specialized technical objectives
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Individual contributor
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Increasing technical depth/breadth to become a subject matter expert