Brent Hess Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, US

• Manage all three Houston based divisions engineering teams along with one offshore engineering team, that includes 4 managers, 11 supervisors and 106 multi-disciplined engineers and designers
• The team produces over 23 unique products that generate over $300MM of revenue annually
• Control Powell standards for both Mechanical and Electrical designs along with standard buyout parts
• Implemented several organizational changes to better align staff talent and establish an expectation of accountability along with a can-do attitude with regular metric reporting by the managers
• Improved on-time delivery from 60% to 99% by implementing Primavera within the Powell engineering team as the main scheduling and project tracking software
• Introduced a Product Life Cycle (PLC) process (Agile), which cut commercialization costs by as much as 20%

Houston, Texas, US

• Reorganized the staff into four electrical teams and one electrical design team to promote consistency of our drawings to both our clients and our manufacturing facilities.
• Primary liaison between sales and engineering for all new projects.
• Assigned all new projects to one of four engineering supervisors for completion by their teams.
• Implemented an electronic specification sheet that tied every product produced on a single project to a communized specification thus reducing errors and improving efficiency.

Houston, Texas, US

• Rebuilt staff into a cohesive team increasing retention of both hourly and salaried employees.
• Ensured that projects were completed according to timeline and oversaw the completion of each phase of projects, providing any appropriate feedback to employees.
• Built client relationships while supporting the organizations business goals and objectives.
• Modernized the departments work instructions by moving from a paper system to an electronic website.
• Performed as the engineering departments SME as we moved from a “green screen” computer network to an Oracle business system.
• Developed new work instructions and trained the entire department on the new business system.

Houston, Texas, US

• Reviewed product design for compliance with engineering principles, applicable standards, contract requirements and related specifications.
• Provided engineering support and expertise required for the projects through the manufacturing, assembly, and testing process.
• Established superior track record of successfully completing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Delegated tasks and responsibilities to team members as Lead Electrical Engineer.
• Conceptualized and drove to implementation a method to move all of engineering from a paper Bill of Material process to an electronic Bill of Material process.
• Invented a shipping split junction box that has generated over 2 million dollars in savings.

• Skills developed in primarily three main areas; research and evaluation, electrical design and leadership.
• Designed the entire electrical system for a maximum security prison with three power sources, two primary utility feeds and a backup generator.
• Instructed and checked all of the work of a direct report electrical designer.