🚀 Director, Engineering Projects
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Barry-Wehmiller
- 📍 Location: Kansas City
- đź“… Posted: Oct 28, 2025
About Us:
BW Design Group is a fully integrated architecture, engineering, construction, system integration, and consulting firm committed to helping our clients realize their most critical goals from Strategy to Commercialization. We combine deep domain expertise in the manufacturing environment with an approach that is built to serve the dynamic needs of our clients. Rooted in our distinct culture of Truly Human Leadership, we cultivate the leaders who will define tomorrow and partner with our clients in the food & beverage, life sciences, industrial, and advanced technology industries to build the future of manufacturing and technology.
Job Description:
Who You’ll Work With
You will join one of our 45 offices in the US, be part of a committed team of over 1500 professionals, and work in teams and directly with our clients doing work that is shaping the world around us. You will be welcomed into a rapidly growing business and team and empowered to make an impact.
When you join Design Group as a Director you are joining a team that will challenge you and position you for growth. In this role, you will work with a team of industry experts to help the world’s leading companies solve their most difficult problems.
What You’ll Do
As a Director, you will be responsible for leveraging your past professional experiences and industry relationships, along with Design Group’s engineering and construction offerings to expand our presence by developing client relationships and project opportunities. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team in the design and execution of food and beverage, life science, industrial, consumer goods and other industry sector manufacturing projects for our clients. We seek a passionate, high achieving professional who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, entrepreneurial environment.
Responsibilities
- Help secure new engagements as you begin to understand how we operate, our key areas of strength, how we price our services, etc.
- Develop a plan and approach required to engage new client relationships and opportunities.
- Lead and/or manage multiple projects in either the Food & Beverage, Life Science, Industrial or Consumer Goods market sector.
- Support the development and recruiting of Project Managers and Project Engineers to help grow the Design Group team.
- Leverage the extensive Design Group engineering team to deliver successful projects.
- Consistently seek new value-add opportunities for clients and Design Group.
- Lead with an uplifting entrepreneurial spirit.
- Inspire excellence in all aspects of performance and project execution.
- Display enthusiasm and excitement for client projects that lifts project teams to high levels of job satisfaction.
- Innovate and improve design and service delivery method and processes.
- Build and sustain long term client and internal relationships.
- Participate actively in relevant industry organization events and conferences.
What You’ll Bring
- 10+ years of operational & engineering consulting experience in the food and beverage, life science, industrial, consumer goods or other manufacturing sectors.
- Demonstrated experience leading successful conceptual design efforts.
- Demonstrated client development experience and excellent presentation skills.
- Experience in design, and qualification of manufacturing and distribution facilities ranging from pilot to full-scale production plants.
- Familiarity with GMP manufacturing design, including process technology evaluation, capacity analysis, GMP environmental classification, and operational analysis a plus.
- Knowledge of production capacity modeling and assessment, manufacturing flow analysis, manufacturing flow diagrams, and process logic diagrams.
- Knowledge of Validation, Commissioning and Quality programs as they relate to project and manufacturing requirements.
- Excellent time management skills and ability to multi-task on simultaneous projects.
- Travel as required for client development and project execution.
- Bachelor's Degree, preferred area of study Engineering, Construction Management, or related field.
Our culture and commitment to our people is what sets us apart. We foster an environment of mutual respect, integrity, and unconditional interest in the individual and collective success of our professionals. As Director, you will build a meaningful and fulfilling career with the support of professional development resources and mentorships.
At Barry-Wehmiller we recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. We know that our differences often can bring about innovation, excellence and meaningful work—therefore, people from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply to our positions.
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