Senior Functional Safety Technical Lead

Strong technical expertise and excellence in project delivery, with a client-centric approach to drive increased sales, while collaborating with client’s  Consulting and Base Business to develop integrated offerings will be required. This role covers Canada, US and LATAM business.
 

• Support the Regional leadership and Digital COE to adopt and deploy our Functional Safety vision and strategy in key markets.
• Play an integral role in the development of a Functional Safety Center of Excellence within the marketplace by building and marketing best practices, gaining recognition in the industry and striving to build key customer partnerships.  
• Manage a team with a focus on strong technical expertise and quality for project delivery excellence
• Strong Doer / Seller focus is critical to the growth and success of our team and business.
• Collaborate and develop integrated offerings with client, particularly in O&M.
• Delivering short to mid-term complex digital customer engagements, typically of multiple weeks duration, that may involve identification of user requirements, solutioning, implementation, change management, value realization and the potential involvement of other digital practices and/or other client’s consulting practices.
• Responsible for leading and managing teams of varying sizes depending on scope, including a mix of full-time employees, contractors and global workshare team to successfully execute projects.
• Responsible for navigating the client decision-making process, involving and interacting with decision-makers and influencers, and overseeing and preparing proposals and contracts.
• Always looking for opportunities to meet customer needs and improve client’s financial position.
• Responsible for assisting with sales pursuits, including, but not limited to, sales meetings attendance, assisting in responses to RFP, and conducting short engagements designed to frame a client’s problem statement, plan and sell an engagement, develop client relationships, and demonstrate credibility.
• Strive for continuous improvement in all aspects and actively looking for opportunities to digitally enable how the practice operates

• Must have 10+ years of experience in delivery of projects involving application of Advanced Automation technologies in Functional Safety and develop and integrate multi-technology solutions as mentioned above.
• Exida (CFSE), TUV or similar Functional Safety certification preferred
• Recognized Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Engineering, Electrical, Chemical, Electronics, or Mechanical or related field from an accredited College or University.
• Project management experience, with a focus on performance improvement and operations strongly preferred.
• Facilitating workshops, client discovery meetings, strategic advisory / consulting with client is expected for successful work execution. Alarm Rationalization/Management experience is highly preferred.
• Driven, high energy, presence/gravitas, intelligent but practical, people person.
• Demonstrable experience with selling through networking.
• Excellent analytical and research skills, attention to detail, intellectual rigor.
• Excellent communication and listening skills.
• Able to interact at any level of a client organization, including Executives and Staff.
• Able to think outside of the box; innovative; flexible and decisive.
• Keeps informed on ongoing technological developments with a keen sense of when evolving technology is ready to be implemented at scale.
• Willing to travel an average of 35-50%.