How to organize the work of a design institute
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I have been transferred to work at a design institute due to work requirements. This institute holds Class B qualification for pharmaceutical and chemical engineering design, but currently it has no employees at all. I am tasked with organizing and building a team to carry out business activities. I have over a decade of experience in chemical production technology management, but I’m completely unfamiliar with the process of organizing and building a design institute. Anyone with experience in this area could please offer some advice to help me get up to speed as quickly as possible and start carrying out related tasks.
Go and visit a chemical engineering design site in person and communicate with the professors. Go for a walk
There have to be designers first, a chief engineer, reviewers, and people who handle business matters……
There need to be projects; with projects, there’s no worry about a lack of people to do the work
Is there no one? Where did that qualification come from?
My experience is similar to yours. I also moved to a design institute after managing production in a factory for many years; now I work in design.
In addition to having the qualifications of a design institute, there must also be staff members who match those qualifications; these staff should hold registered credentials as well as professional titles at various levels, and possess the appropriate qualifications for different specialties. For any given specialty, there should be at least designers, proofreaders, reviewers; for more complex projects, there are also needs for approvers and technical supervisors. There also need to be managers and logistics staff. . .
I suggest you find deputy general managers, deputy chief engineers, and senior project managers from other design firms to assist you with your work. The deputy general manager will assist you with taking on projects, conducting negotiations, handling recruitment, and ensuring safety; the deputy engineering manager should have expertise in processes and piping. I will assist you in managing quality and standards; senior project managers will help you set up template project teams, train project manager staff, and then work on projects one by one.
A design institute is not a school; it usually has senior instructors but no professors.
It’s the question of whether the chicken came first or the egg. It’s not possible to have projects without people, nor is it possible to have people without projects.