Plan Check Engineering Manager

Description

SINCE 1976, CANNON has provided creative solutions to clients in the energy industry, water resources, public infrastructure, and commercial and residential development. We work hard. We play hard. We have fun.

JOIN CANNON as a PLAN CHECK ENGINEERING MANAGER in IRVINE. Irvine offers warm weather, beautiful scenery, and is a top bicycling city with miles of on-road bicycle lanes and mountain bike trails. It is one of the safest communities and the public schools have consistently ranked among the best in California.

PLAN CHECK ENGINEERING MANAGER JOB SUMMARY

The Plan Check Engineering Manager is responsible for ensuring all private development of commercial, industrial, and single and multi-family projects meet all state and local codes, supervising, assign work to, and evaluating performance of the Plan Check Section staff, ensuring work quality and adherence to established policies and procedures. Assignments may include performing the more technical and complex tasks relative to assigned area of responsibility including serving as a technical resource to staff, and performing related duties as assigned. A successful Plan Check Engineering Manager must be highly proficient with code principles, possesses communication, technical writing and presentation skills, is effective when dealing with client communications and interactions, operates independently, confidently communicates the marketing message of the firm, develops expertise in clients’ business and the role that projects play in meeting clients’ goals, and develops and maintains strong relationships with ongoing clients and actively seeks to expand services to them. In this role, the Project Manager will also be responsible for obtaining new business (seller-doer).

PLAN CHECK ENGINEER MANAGER DUTIES

• Plans, organizes, supervises, and evaluates the work of assigned plan check staff. Develops, implements, and monitors work plans to achieve goals and objectives, supervises and participates in developing, implementing, and evaluating plans, work processes, systems, and procedures to achieve annual goals, objectives, and work standards.
• Ensures plan checks are submitted on schedule, within scope and on budget.
• Conducts business development and creates proposals and presentations.
• Establishes schedules and methods for providing plan check services, identifies resource needs, review needs with appropriate management staff, and allocates resources accordingly.
• Coordinates activities and plan review processing with City staff including, but not limited to, counter technicians, planners, inspectors, building officials, engineers, fire inspectors, and others. Assists other Divisions and Departments, including Planning, Public Works, and Finance, in providing information and answering inquiries regarding various projects, fees, plans examination, code interpretations, internal divisional policy and procedures, determination and calculation of valuations, permit costs, and related fees.
• Present plan check information both orally and in writing to client and external customers.
• Mentors plan check work of less experienced engineers and works with staff to ensure a high performance, customer service-oriented work environment that supports achieving Cannon’s mission, objectives and values.
• Makes code interpretations for, responds to more complicated inquiries from, and provides information to architects, engineers, contractors, building designers, owners, and the general public regarding plan review and other code-related items and issues
• Maintains current knowledge of new trends and innovations related to area of assignment including new and revised codes as well as new materials and products and attends and participates in job related seminars and professional group meetings.

Requirements

• Requires 15+ years experiencing in civil engineering industry.
• Requires a minimum of 5 years’ supervisory experience in plan checking for development projects.
• Requires a California P.E. license in civil engineering.
• Experience in business development.
• Candidate must be familiar with MS Office, Adobe Acrobat and Bluebeam Revu.
• Maintains a high level of understanding of departmental design standards, applicable engineering codes and policies, guidelines and standards.
• Communicates effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Demonstrates initiative and exercises good judgment in the performance of duties.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Professional appearance and interaction.

WE OFFER competitive salaries, relocation assistance, excellent benefits package, remote work flexibility, and an active and positive team building, work environment.

Equal Employment Opportunity, M, F, disability, protected veteran status