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Location: Sherwood Park, Alberta (with travel as required). In office.
Position Purpose
The Engineering Manager is responsible for the leadership, coordination, development, and performance of MSCP's Engineering Node. This role ensures engineering activities support the effective flow of work throughout the organization by providing timely, practical, and high-quality engineering solutions that enable manufacturing, project execution, field operations, and business growth.
This is a working leadership position. In addition to leading engineering personnel and managing engineering resources, the Engineering Manager is expected to actively contribute to engineering design, technical problem-solving, project support, product development, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Working within MSCP's systemic management methodology, the Engineering Manager is accountable for developing engineering capability, improving engineering processes, supporting organizational throughput, and ensuring engineering does not become a constraint to execution.
The Engineering Manager works closely with Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, Safety, Project Delivery, and Business Development to ensure engineering efforts are aligned with organizational priorities.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Leadership & Team Development
- Lead, mentor, coach, and develop engineering personnel across all engineering disciplines.
- Establish clear roles, responsibilities, expectations, and priorities within the Engineering Node.
- Conduct performance reviews and support employee development planning.
- Assist with recruitment, onboarding, workforce planning, and succession planning activities.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Develop technical and leadership capabilities within the engineering team.
- Ensure engineering resources are effectively aligned with organizational priorities and workload demands.
- Promote strong communication and collaboration across departments.
As a working manager, the Engineering Manager is expected to actively participate in engineering activities and provide technical leadership to the organization.
Responsibilities Include
- Prepare, review, and approve engineering calculations, designs, specifications, drawings, and technical documents.
- Participate directly in engineering design and development activities.
- Provide technical guidance and support to project teams, manufacturing personnel, and field operations.
- Support troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and technical problem-solving initiatives.
- Assist with estimating, planning, commissioning, and execution activities.
- Participate in technical reviews and risk assessments.
- Support product development, testing, validation, and commercialization efforts.
- Remain actively engaged in engineering work to maintain technical competency and organizational credibility.
- Balance leadership responsibilities with direct technical contribution based on organizational needs.
- Manage day-to-day engineering activities and engineering resource allocation.
- Establish priorities that support organizational flow and project execution.
- Monitor engineering workloads, schedules, and deliverables.
- Ensure engineering work is completed accurately, efficiently, and on schedule.
- Coordinate engineering support across manufacturing, field execution, project delivery, and business development functions.
- Identify and address resource constraints that impact engineering performance.
- Escalate technical, staffing, or scheduling risks that may affect organizational performance.
- Ensure engineering activities remain aligned with organizational objectives.
- Ensure engineering work complies with applicable codes, standards, regulations, and professional requirements.
- Establish and maintain engineering quality assurance processes and standards.
- Review engineering deliverables for technical accuracy, practicality, constructability, and maintainability.
- Support design reviews, hazard assessments, and technical risk evaluations.
- Maintain engineering procedures, standards, and documentation practices.
- Drive standardization and consistency across engineering activities.
- Support investigations involving technical failures, quality concerns, or operational issues.
- Ensure engineering records and documentation are maintained appropriately.
- Provide engineering support to MSCP's manufacturing operations.
- Collaborate with manufacturing leadership to improve quality, throughput, efficiency, and reliability.
- Ensure engineering designs support manufacturability and production scalability.
- Participate in the development and refinement of proprietary technologies, systems, and products.
- Support prototype development, testing, validation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Assist in identifying opportunities for innovation and process enhancement.
- Work with operations teams to resolve production challenges and improve operational performance.
- Support projects throughout estimating, planning, execution, commissioning, and closeout.
- Participate in project reviews and technical discussions.
- Provide engineering support to field execution teams.
- Assist in resolving technical issues encountered during project execution.
- Ensure engineering deliverables support project schedules and operational requirements.
- Support commissioning and startup activities when required.
- Participate in client meetings, technical presentations, and project planning sessions.
- Travel as required for project requirements.
MSCP operates using a systemic management methodology focused on organizational flow, interdependence, and continuous improvement.
The Engineering Manager Is Expected To
- Ensure engineering activities support overall organizational throughput.
- Identify and remove engineering-related constraints that negatively impact organizational performance.
- Participate in systemic management discussions and organizational improvement initiatives.
- Develop processes that improve engineering effectiveness and responsiveness.
- Support cross-functional collaboration between organizational nodes.
- Contribute to the evolution of management systems, standards, and operating practices.
- Promote fact-based decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with clients, consultants, suppliers, and technical partners.
- Participate in customer meetings, design reviews, and technical discussions.
- Support proposal development and business development initiatives.
- Provide technical expertise during project planning and contract reviews.
- Represent MSCP professionally and ethically in all external interactions.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from an accredited institution.
- Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering degrees are preferred.
- Other engineering disciplines may be considered based on relevant industrial experience and demonstrated leadership capability.
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in Alberta, or eligibility to obtain registration.
- Minimum 8 years of progressive engineering experience.
- Minimum 3 years of engineering leadership, supervisory, or management experience.
- Experience supporting industrial, manufacturing, maintenance, construction, energy, or sustaining capital environments.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams is considered an asset.
- Experience supporting field execution and manufacturing operations is considered an asset.
