Job Description
Title: Director, MEP
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Compensation: $160k - $185k (Based on Experience)
Benefits: Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision), PTO, 401(k), and Tuition Reimbursement
About the Opportunity:
Sterling Engineering is partnering to identify an experienced Director, MEP to join their executive leadership team. This is a strategic leadership position responsible for driving business growth, developing client relationships, leading engineering teams, and overseeing the successful execution of projects. The Director will serve as a Principal in Charge (PIC) for key clients while also functioning as a Senior Project Manager on select projects. This role offers the opportunity to shape the firm's long-term vision, mentor engineering staff, and influence company-wide initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide executive leadership and contribute to the firm's strategic planning and long-term vision.
- Serve as Principal in Charge (PIC) for key client accounts and develop new business opportunities.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships while leading capture plans and proposal efforts.
- Lead and mentor engineering managers, team leaders, and technical staff.
- Allocate engineering resources to support project workloads and staffing needs.
- Oversee project profitability, quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC), and operational performance.
- Supervise hiring, performance evaluations, professional development, compensation recommendations, and employee growth initiatives.
- Manage select projects as a Senior Project Manager while ensuring client satisfaction and project success.
- Participate in Executive Leadership and Leadership Council meetings to support company growth and operational excellence.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree from an accredited institution.
- Professional Engineering license (or applicable discipline license) required.
- Demonstrated leadership experience within an MEP consulting engineering environment.
- Proven experience managing engineering teams, project managers, and technical staff.
- Strong business development, client relationship management, and strategic planning experience.
- Experience overseeing staffing, resource allocation, project profitability, and operational performance.
- Excellent organizational, communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Software:
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Proposal and project management tools
- Experience preparing RFP responses and marketing materials preferred
Schedule:
- In office (4) days a week, (1) day remote
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Indianapolis, IN |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Business Developmentunmatched
- Business Growthunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)unmatched
- Customer Satisfactionunmatched
- Develop and Maintain Customersunmatched
- Engineering Consultingunmatched
- Engineering Managementunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Marketingunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Performance Reviewsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Profit & Lossunmatched
- Project Management Softwareunmatched
- Project Trackingunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Proposal Writingunmatched
- Quality Assuranceunmatched
- Quality Controlunmatched
- Resource Managementunmatched
- Sales Managementunmatched
- Staff Requirementsunmatched
- Strategic Planningunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
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