Product Manager - Engineering Technology Integrations

Burns & McDonnell is seeking a Product Manager for Engineering Technology Integrations to shape enterprise strategy and provide hands-on tactical direction. The position focuses on integrating data and workflows across engineering and design application suites, coordinating with engineering and construction teams, and managing external vendor and partnership integrations.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain external vendor relationships, including evaluating how vendor solutions can integrate with other vendors’ offerings to enhance project processes and workflows across the BMcD enterprise.
• Evaluate external partnerships, licensing opportunities, and emerging applications that support middleware integration efforts.
• Research technical and industry expertise related to competitive solutions.
• Coordinate product demonstrations from external vendors.
• Review scopes of work for external services requests tied to application integration.
• Participate in technical committees, professional organizations, seminars, trade shows, and conferences to promote BMcD capabilities and experience.
• Understand emerging or disruptive technology and identify practical opportunities to support new and evolving business lines and operating models.
• Remain technology neutral and unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor.
• Lead coordination and planning for BMcD involvement in industry conferences, including writing and presenting strategies, technical papers, white papers, conference presentations, and business plans as required.
• Serve as the primary point of contact within BMcD for external product sales and support teams across multiple technology stacks.
• Define and present product strategy and roadmap across engineering applications to internal stakeholders.
• Architect, design, guide development, and actively implement software configurations and integration solutions across global practices and business lines to meet complex engineering application needs.
• Consult on application architectures and data practices supporting both Information Technology and Operations Technology domains.
• Develop technical requirements in partnership with internal and external stakeholders to ensure stakeholder and market needs are met.
• Coordinate with internal teams to align solutions with enterprise data governance, financial parameters, and risk analysis.
• Assess the business impact of new and existing technology investments.
• Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify opportunities to improve or replace technologies that are deficient or misaligned with business requirements.
• Bridge silos between engineering technology stacks.
• Develop and implement product metrics and tools to evaluate cross-platform performance and adoption.
• Collaborate across internal Community of Practices to encourage and highlight successes in cross-platform integration.
• Develop and implement marketing collateral with corporate and GP marketing teams.
• Coordinate with Corporate Quality for adherence to QA/QC processes.
• Coordinate with Corporate Change Management for large change initiatives.
• Comply with all policies and standards.
• Manage internal Community(ies) of Practice for individual technology stack collaboration.
• Develop and manage Objectives and Key Results.
• Coordinate with the IT software procurement team to review financial and usage information.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor Degree in engineering/architecture/environmental science/business (or related) from an accredited program.
• 7 years of relevant consulting experience, preferably in the transmission and distribution industry.
• Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA) or ability to achieve “Preferred”.
• Expert experience investigating, evaluating, selecting, and driving product development within an organization.
• Strong facilitation, collaboration, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Proven experience leading and completing projects from business proposal through post-production support preferred.
• Demonstrated success related to budget, savings, and/or profit margins in completed projects.
• Ability to filter and distill relevant information and communicate business and technical concepts to diverse clients and internal technical teams.
• Excellent planning and analytical skills.
• Broad knowledge of project management methodologies and tools, including use of Microsoft Project or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• 11 years of relevant industry and technology experience providing technology strategies and integration solutions leveraging various applications and technical platforms.
• Thorough understanding of multiple engineering and design application suites (including Autodesk, Bentley, Octave, and/or Esri, with flexibility to incorporate other emerging platforms) and how to integrate data, workflows, and business processes across and between them.
• Engineering and/or design experience utilizing more than one vendor’s software suite.
• Experience integrating across multiple software suites on client projects.
• Experience in enterprise transformation projects using industry-standard solutions and middleware technologies.
• Strong ability to influence or lead project execution and guide engineering teams through cultural and operational transitions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including application data analysis and transformation across architectural layers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong ability to understand customer concerns, consider alternatives, and guide customers in resolving questions.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills to interact with multiple customers with differing needs.
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and managers.

Technology Experience

• Microsoft Project
• Autodesk
• Bentley
• Octave
• Esri

Schedule, Location, and Travel

• Schedule: Full-time
• Primary Location: US-MO-Kansas City (onsite)
• Travel: Yes, 15% of the time

Additional Job Details

• Req ID: 264674
• Job Hire Type: Experienced (#LI-MJ, #COR)
• Minimum posting duration: 72 hours, and on an ongoing basis until filled