SVP of Electrical Engineering
industrial_energy_operations › Electrical Engineering · E2 — E2 — Senior Director (Executive) · Executive
Executive leader overseeing the entire electrical engineering function, including power systems, high-voltage infrastructure, and enterprise engineering strategy.
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$322,728 USD
▲ +90.4% vs E1 on this ladder
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What this role is
Executive leader overseeing the entire electrical engineering function, including power systems, high-voltage infrastructure, and enterprise engineering strategy. At the Senior Director (Executive) (E2) level, the role owns multiple functions or a major area, multi-function strategy and risk, and drives major-area outcomes. Leads function leaders.
What this level does
- Leads multiple engineering functions or divisions through VPs — extending beyond electrical design into the adjacent development, production, and equipment-lifecycle functions that depend on it
- Makes cross-functional trade-off decisions on abstract, high-consequence issues (platform architecture, make-vs-buy on electrical subsystems, production ramp risk) where a wrong call can impact program viability
- Consolidates and arbitrates technical estimation and resource plans across divisions, resolving contention between electrical engineering and the installation/production functions it feeds
- Establishes the enterprise-wide standard for how electrical designs are evaluated for technical adequacy and compatibility, harmonizing quality gates across divisions
- Negotiates critical technical and commercial matters with top company leaders and strategic customers on the electrical engineering portfolio
- Knowledge applied
- Cross-functional application of engineering knowledge across electrical, development, and production functions — reasons about abstract, high-consequence platform and architecture trade-offs, not single-discipline execution.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Solves abstract cross-functional problems where decisions may impact company viability, such as make-vs-buy on electrical subsystems or production-ramp risk across divisions.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Leads multiple functions/divisions through VPs (E1–E2); negotiates critical technical and commercial matters with top company leaders and strategic customers.
- Typical experience
- 15+ years, including strategic leadership of engineering functions or significant business units.
Skills at this level
- Electrical engineering portfolio strategy
- — Sets the multi-year technical direction for the design and development of electrical equipment, systems, and the structures or facilities that house them, aligning platform and architecture choices with enterprise business needs.
- Engineering technical-standards governance
- — Establishes and enforces the technical standards, design guidelines, and quality gates that the electrical engineering discipline builds to, ensuring consistency across teams, divisions, and business units.
- Technical-adequacy evaluation at scale
- — Owns the enterprise regime for evaluating project work to ensure effectiveness, technical adequacy, and compatibility in the resolution of complex electrical engineering problems.
- Engineering estimation and resource governance
- — Directs how the function determines resource, size, cost, time, and material requirements for electrical development and production projects, and defends those estimates in executive budget decisions.
- Installation and production direction
- — Governs the direction of installation, industrial-production, and equipment maintenance/repair activities that flow from electrical designs, arbitrating contention between engineering and production functions.
- Enterprise technical risk ownership
- — Holds the enterprise position on electrical-equipment reliability, safety, and production capability where systemic design or quality failure carries critical strategic and corporate consequence.
- Board and external technical representation
- — Represents the electrical engineering discipline to the board, CEO, industry bodies, standards participation, and major customers on the portfolio's direction, risk, and investment case.
- Cross-functional executive negotiation
- — Negotiates critical technical and commercial matters on the electrical engineering portfolio with top company leaders and strategic customers, resolving high-consequence cross-functional trade-offs.
- CAD/CAE capability investment
- — Directs investment in and organizational adoption of computer-assisted engineering/design toolchains used to perform electrical engineering design and analysis at scale.
- Engineering knowledge advancement
- — Sponsors the review of engineering principles and theories to further the field's knowledge within the enterprise and connects that advancement to long-range business direction.
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