Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Title: Senior Engineering Manager – Electrical Distribution
Location: Chicagoland Area (Mostly Remote)
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $145,000 - $160,000
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401(k) with Company Match, Generous PTO, Paid Volunteer Time Off, Paid Holidays, Continuing Education Reimbursement, and more.
Location: Chicagoland Area (Mostly Remote)
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $145,000 - $160,000
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401(k) with Company Match, Generous PTO, Paid Volunteer Time Off, Paid Holidays, Continuing Education Reimbursement, and more.
Sterling Engineering is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager – Electrical Distribution for a growing engineering services firm. This is a mostly remote opportunity, but candidates must be able to commute to the Chicagoland office as needed.
Job Duties:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers and designers supporting electrical distribution programs.
- Oversee electrical distribution projects from planning through execution, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to quality standards.
- Manage overhead and underground distribution design projects, system upgrades, and new business work.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for utility clients, providing project updates, resolving issues, and building strong client relationships.
- Review and approve engineering deliverables for accuracy, constructability, and compliance with utility standards.
- Coordinate with internal teams, clients, and stakeholders to ensure successful project execution.
- Support resource planning, forecasting, proposal development, and workload balancing.
- Drive process improvements and standardization initiatives across engineering teams.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field required.
- 8+ years of electrical distribution engineering experience within a utility or consulting environment.
- 3+ years of leadership experience managing engineering teams and/or projects.
- Experience supporting investor-owned utilities (IOUs), preferably ComEd or other Exelon utilities.
- Strong knowledge of overhead and underground electrical distribution systems (4kV–34.5kV).
- Experience with utility design tools such as GIS, CAD, and work management systems.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license or the ability to obtain one preferred.
- Excellent communication, client management, and leadership skills.
- Valid driver's license and willingness to travel to project sites as needed.
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 | Wheaton, IL (Remote) |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $145,000–$160,000 Per Year |
| 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
- Budget Managementunmatched
- CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing)unmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Consultingunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Distribution Managementunmatched
- Driver's Licenseunmatched
- Electrical Designunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- Engineering Managementunmatched
- Forecastingunmatched
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)unmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Professional Engineerunmatched
- Project Executionunmatched
- Project Planningunmatched
- Proposal Developmentunmatched
- Quality Metricsunmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- Sales Managementunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
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