Design Manager Jobs in Madison, WI (NOW HIRING)

The Design Engineering Manager’s department is comprised of diverse discipline expertise including mechanical / electrical / I&C /civil / stress engineering. These responsibilities include the direct management of Mechanical / Civil / Stress Design Basis; Electrical / I&C Design Basis; Minor Modifications, and Design and Drafting groups. The Design Engineering Manager provides specialized support to other organizations and assistance in the management decision-making process related to these areas. Additionally, the management of budget, schedule, staffing, and planning is required to support the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of Columbia Generating Station.

• Managing – Manages a department consisting of Design Engineering supervisors, engineers, and designers and drafters.


• Hires direct and contract employees.


• Determines personnel performance expectations, ratings, promotions, salary changes, transfers, and terminations.


• Performs all manager level functions such as salary administration, personally reviewing deliverables produced, staffing changes, and disciplinary actions when required.


• Continuously removes work process obstacles such that department staff can effectively complete assigned responsibilities in a timely manner.


• Leading - Provides engineering direction and technical counseling to supervisors and staff as well as other organizations regarding analysis techniques, technical requirements, and acceptable conclusions to engineering related problems.


• Assists staff in successfully completing department responsibilities and assignments by establishing clear, achievable expectations, facilitating teamwork, and monitoring performance to agreed standards.


• Maintains contact with industry groups to ensure operating experiences, technological advances, and regulatory changes are considered in all department activities.


• Developing - Ensures that appropriate management controls are established and implemented to allow programs to be conducted professionally in compliance with NRC and industry regulations, policies, procedures, instructions and standards, ensuring appropriate control, monitoring, accountability, and completion.


• Provides plant operability assessment to establish a basis for plant continued operation when degraded equipment is discovered.


• Develops all levels of department staff by providing needed training, varied assignments, depth in staff capability, and increasing staff responsibility on a continuing basis.


• Prepares budgets, schedules, long range plans, priorities, staffing requirements, and subsequent monitoring to ensure success of the department.


• Planning - Establishes policies, plans, schedules, and goals for the department based on interaction with other managers and staff, ensuring that priorities and resources are utilized to the maximum benefit of the company, consistent with Corporate direction.


• Scheduling – Assures resource loaded department schedules are developed and maintained.


• Assures proper progress and focus through frequent interface with direct reports.


• Reviewing - Supports the Plant by maintaining accurate, complete, and up-to-date drawings, preparing specifications for procurement of plant components, approving design packages, and preparing technical reports to regulatory agencies and to management.


• Engineering employees are expected to be available and to support the following activities as a condition of employment with Energy Northwest: Emergency Response Organization (ERO) including being on-call (24/7) during your required team duty (2 weeks out of every 8 weeks). 12 hour work shifts during outages as part of our overall Outage support (24/7) including Outage Command Center and Engineering Outage Center Engineering duty cycle support (24/7) including call-out availability during your responsible duty assignment (typically 1 week timeframe with requirements similar to ERO)

Requires Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, in engineering or physical science and ten years of engineering, maintenance, or operations experience, with at least seven years in the nuclear industry; a minimum of five years at an operating nuclear power plant; a minimum of three years management experience dealing with significant engineering, operations, maintenance, and/or construction programs.

• Active or previous SRO license, SRO certification, or BWR Management Certification. If selected candidate does not meet this, he/she must attend and satisfactorily complete the next Management Cert class provided by EN. This requirement may be waived by the Site Vice President.


• Previous experience in an organization outside of the Engineering team such as Maintenance, Work Management, Operations, Chemistry/RP ETC. This experience should be evaluated by the hiring manager.

Pay Range $192,178.00 - $288,268.00 Annual Midpoint: $240,223.00 Typically, selected candidates are hired between the minimum and midpoint of the range, based on applicable experience and qualifications, market rate, internal equity, and budgetary allowances. Offers will be negotiated based on each candidate's qualifications.

This role may be eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan. Incentives are earned based on employee performance against defined metrics and company goals.

Energy Northwest (EN) provides a phenomenal benefits package. Washington State also has no state income tax, and the Tri-Cities provides a cost-of-living lower than the national average. EN offers substantial retirement benefits through three retirement programs including the Washington State Public Employees' Retirement System pension plan (PERS), a 401(k) savings plan with an employer match component, and a 457(b) savings plan. EN also offers multiple options for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverage. Other voluntary benefits may include flexible spending accounts (FSAs), tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment, childcare subsides, health reimbursement arrangement (HRA VEBA), health savings account (HSA), supplemental life insurances, credit monitoring/identity theft insurance, and more! Qualifying employees will typically start a personal time accrual rate of 160 hours per year and EN provides nine paid holidays throughout the Calander year; personal time accruals grow significantly at various service intervals.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate due to race, color, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimantion is illegal.

Energy Northwest is a Washington state joint operating agency comprised of public power member utilities, serving more than 1.5 million customers. The agency continually explores new generation projects and solutions to meet its members’ needs.