Fire Sprinkler Design Manager

Sprinkler Design Manager Make a difference, protect lives, and achieve your dreams. Build your career with the industry-leading fire, life safety and security company. This position is responsible for providing leadership for the team of Sprinkler Designers. The Sprinkler Design Manager is responsible for quality and timeliness of all design work performed by the department as well as providing support to the sales and operations teams. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: • Recruit, hire, train, lead, manage, direct, develop, and motivate individuals and the team. Maximize productivity of design personnel and manage staff performance and conflicts with successful outcomes. • Create and implement procedures, standards, and process improvements to enhance quality and timeliness of design work. Provide recommendations to executive management as needed regarding necessary equipment, personnel needs/changes, and the strategic direction for the department. • Ensure strict adherence to the Operational Excellence program. Assist designers in working with sales, operations, and other design staff as needed to interpret project specifications. • Develop project timelines, plan, schedule and assign sprinkler design work. • Oversee the production of detailed design documents from project specifications, architectural drawings, and code requirements using AutoCAD and other software. • Provide senior level technical assistance as needed. • Review of drawings and stock lists to perform quality and process checks and identify issues that need further discussion or modification. • Ensure proper reporting on design project progression. Facilitate weekly Design Department meetings and provide status updates, issues encountered, manpower, labor consumption, and percent complete vs. schedule. • Ensure the department provides timely and accurate entries into operating systems and updates Compa