Senior Manager, Engineering and Design

Role Summary:
Our exclusive client has retained our team to identify a senior technical and design integrator, owning engineering execution from late-stage development through construction handover. You will act as both technical lead and design integrator, ensuring projects are fully coordinated, buildable, and ready for procurement, construction and are compliant with company’s standards.
Reporting to the Director, this role will help establish the engineering standards, processes, and technical rigor that will scale Company’s growing portfolio of travel centers and truck stops.

Key Responsibilities:
Establish and maintain Company’s engineering standards, Basis of Design (BoD), and quality assurance processes.
Manage all engineering consultants and Engineers of Record (EORs), ensuring coordinated, complete, and compliant design packages.
Track and manage design deliverables from concept through 30/60/90% and Issued-For-Construction (IFC).
Coordinate reviews across internal stakeholders and external partners.
Ensure compliance with AHJ, utility, and entitlement requirements.
Lead constructability reviews to validate efficiency, cost, schedule, and buildability- particularly for large, multi-use travel center and truck stop sites.
Evaluate and recommend technology selections in partnership with the Director, balancing cost, performance, and long-term maintainability.
Develop technical specifications and scopes of work for RFPs and contracts.
Review vendor drawings, submittals, and data sheets to ensure alignment with Company’s BoD and system architecture.
Maintain a design-to-procurement readiness checklist to ensure packages are technically and commercially executable.
Support system integration and interface validation (SCADA, EMS, CMS, building management systems).
Provide technical oversight during construction, including review of RFIs, submittals, and field changes.
Support the Construction Manager with technical issue resolution and change management.
Ensure commissioning results align with design intent and performance assumptions.
Review and integrate as-built documentation to support operations and long-term asset management.
Serve as the steward of design integrity from development through startup.

Core Competencies:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field preferred.
5+ years of engineering experience, ideally in civil infrastructure, site development, transportation, or travel center / truck stop environments.
Proven experience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams (civil, electrical, structural, architectural).
Strong familiarity with permitting, utilities, and entitlement processes (CUP/CEQA, grading, drainage, fire access, utility coordination).
Experience delivering projects from design through construction handoff.
Experience working in CAD based tools.
Ability to manage consultants, review plans and submittals, and enforce Basis of Design standards.
Strong communicator with an owner’s mindset who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment.
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