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DLB Associates

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1980

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Construction • Consulting • Logistics

DLB Associates is a company that offers a unique, fully interactive gamified experience for users, allowing them to choose how they want to engage with the content. Whether users prefer a fun and challenging approach or a straightforward presentation of facts, DLB Associates caters to diverse preferences in user experience.

📋 Description

• Direct the CFD team’s day-to-day activities, quality, staffing, client engagement, and performance • Manage direct reports through 1:1s, performance reviews, career development planning, hiring, PTO approval, timesheet and expense review, staffing, and workload balancing • Mentor team members and promote delegation, ownership, and continuous improvement • Provide technical oversight for CFD analysis scope, methodology, modeling strategy, meshing, boundary conditions, and modeling approaches • Coordinate and oversee QA/QC reviews of CFD reports and deliverables • Maintain and evolve CFD standards, templates, calculators, and SharePoint documentation • Serve as escalation point for unresolved technical challenges • Evaluate competing software platforms, licensing needs, industry trends, and emerging analysis techniques • Represent the CFD team in client meetings and maintain and grow key client relationships • Identify opportunities for expanded CFD scope and support proposal development with scope, schedule, and budget input • Develop marketing materials, whitepapers, and conference presentations • Track project financial performance, profitability, resource utilization, schedules, deliverables, and software-license costs • Provide the Design Director with a concise weekly summary of team status, risks, and priorities • Contribute to long-term CFD capability planning and departmental strategic planning • Leverage AI-enabled and digital tools to improve efficiency, processes, and work quality • Complete assigned tasks and deliverables on time and on budget • Perform other related duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a similar relevant engineering field and at least 3 years of consultancy experience; OR Master’s or PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar relevant engineering field and at least 2 years of consultancy experience • Strong understanding of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and hydraulics, including pump, valve, pipe-network, and control impacts • Knowledge of organizational objectives, company policies, budgeting, and financial management principles • Strong leadership, tactical decision-making, communication, interpersonal, mentoring, and people-management skills • Demonstrated experience managing people, including performance management, coaching, and career development • Ability to establish operational objectives and work plans, delegate assignments, evaluate technical work product, and identify quality concerns • Working knowledge of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and CFD fundamentals • Familiarity with data center mechanical systems and cooling technologies, including CRAHs, fan walls, in-row coolers, direct-to-chip cooling, and rear-door heat exchangers • Familiarity with CFD tools such as Cadence Reality DC Design, Star-CCM+, or ANSYS Fluent sufficient to review modeling approaches • Ability to interpret CFD results and reports and identify gaps, inconsistencies, or quality concerns • Interest in staying current with CFD industry trends, software platforms, and analysis techniques • Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite: Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams • Familiarity with project and resource tracking tools is a plus • Ability to work successfully in a remote environment with effective communication, organization, self-motivation, proactiveness, and resourcefulness • Ability to analyze and prepare documents, reports, and correspondence • Ability to communicate technical and non-technical information orally and in writing • Ability to work under pressure, meet close deadlines, and manage multiple concurrent priorities and direct reports • Ability to work in a distraction-free workspace • Must be able to remain frequently in a stationary position, move through office/facility environments, and occasionally move equipment weighing up to 25 pounds

🏖️ Benefits

• Choice of comprehensive medical plans, including two PPO-style plans and a HDHP with HSA option • Flexible spending accounts (FSA) • Dental and vision plans • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits extended to spouse/domestic partner and dependent children up to age 26 • 401(k) with company match and self-directed brokerage account option • PTO including additional paid time off during the last week of the year • Company-paid life insurance coverage for employees and eligible dependents • Short- and long-term disability and AD&D coverage • Professional development opportunities • Tuition reimbursement • Professional licensing assistance • Paid parental leave after one year of employment • Approximately 10% business travel, including client sites, meetings, business development activities, errands, and industry conferences