Machinery Team Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Drive revenue growth and maintain robust commercial performance by overseeing pipeline quality, proposal activities, conversion rates, and project margins.

• Cultivate and enhance client relationships through proactive outreach, consistent engagement, follow-up on proposals, and the pursuit of both new and repeat business.

• Increase market visibility through participation in conferences, delivering presentations, establishing thought leadership, leveraging social media, and utilizing current sales and marketing materials.

• Transform Becht’s credentials and subject matter expertise into clearly defined, repeatable service offerings that maintain expert judgment and ensure consistent quality.

• Recruit, engage, and retain top-tier subject matter experts to bolster the machinery practice.

• Supervise project quality, scope, scheduling, and financial health.

• Address obstacles, manage scope changes, and support justified change orders to ensure progress and instill client confidence.

• Provide technical leadership by assessing recommendations, questioning assumptions, and connecting the right expertise.

• Ensure that solutions are evidence-based, practical, and prioritized to align with client objectives, technical risks, budgets, and timelines.

• Guide execution project managers in maintaining delivery discipline and commercial stewardship, allowing SMEs to concentrate on high-value technical tasks.

• Act as a project manager or SME when appropriate based on the engagement and individual qualifications.

• Collaborate effectively, honor commitments, and resolve any stalled work.

• Seek growth opportunities, uphold high standards, and safeguard client funds by utilizing Becht resources judiciously.

• Balance business development, practice leadership, and project delivery to enhance the practice over time.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in rotating equipment, reliability, maintenance, or closely related industrial engineering fields.

• Capability to translate technical expertise into practical solutions that align with client needs and business goals.

• Proven ability to expand a technical support business through client development, proposal pursuit, relationship building, and improving market visibility.

• Strong commercial acumen, including the ability to identify scope growth, protect margins, prioritize resources, and pursue change orders when warranted.

• Excellent relationship and communication skills with client managers, client engineers, and Becht SMEs.

• Preferred: Experience in turbomachinery repair quality assurance.

• Preferred: Experience navigating competing stakeholder priorities, technical recommendations, available budgets, and organizational constraints.

• Preferred: Experience in recruiting and developing technical experts while building professional networks through industry conferences, client engagement, and professional relationships.

🏝️ Benefits

• A positive, collaborative workforce.

• Access to further training and development opportunities.

• Mentoring programs available.

• Company and family events.

• Community outreach initiatives such as Red Cross blood drives, Toys for Tots collections/volunteering, and United Way campaigns.

• Opportunities for career growth.

• Every other Friday off if you opt to participate in our 9/80 program.