The Engineering Manager, will build, lead, and improve an engineering organization which is responsible for the design, development, validation, improvement and/or support of products, systems or applications. The incumbent generally reports to an Engineering Director or Site Leader and is relied upon to provide a high level of technical expertise in guiding design efforts, customer interactions, and other engineering related matters such as quality problem solving.

Essential Functions:

• Drive robust design culture through continuous systemic improvements
• Responsible for creating, maintaining and improving design standards that result in high quality and compliant products
• Conceives and implements continuous improvement initiatives in his or her group to improve product development velocity and cost efficiency
• Root cause determination and/or corrective action of current quality issues where design support is required and drives lessons learned into future designs
• Develops, maintains, and improves a highly effective and well skilled staff to carry out actions to complete planned objectives      
  1. Utilizes the talent management system
  2. Completes review process and salary planning
  3. Maintains and executes a training matrix
  4. Appropriately staffs the group to meet business demands and objectives
• Develops budget to support profit planning activities and manages within the approved budget constraints to support achievement of the company's profitability objectives
• Utilizes his or her group as well as the full extended enterprise to improve the customer-perceived value of products through the use of structured and best practice methods (risk analysis, Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), Lean, dimensional analysis, formal problem solving , etc.). Anticipates, identifies and resolves project risks
• Possesses and provides technical product expertise to the extended enterprise (Suppliers, CoE, Customers, Sales & Marketing, and other divisions) as required to support the growth of the business
• Assigns resources as required
• Looks for and drives new proven technologies and concepts into current design practices in an effort to provide design solutions that are significantly more competitive

Other Functions: 

• Assures leverage of all groups and assets
• Develops and maintains training matrix for his or her group
• Responsible for goal flowdown from the Corporate level to actionable activities
• Supports other groups or segments within company with expertise and manpower to the extent possible when critical situations arise
• May author and/or approve organizational documents and operating procedures
• May attend external events, such as trade shows, conferences, etc. to seek out, evaluate and deploy new methods to improve the company's overall competitiveness
• May participate on committees to the extent required (such as innovation and patent committees)
• May directly manage Project Managers/Coordinators

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: 

• Excellent people, time management, and project management skills
• Expert knowledge of the product life cycle, especially related key deliverables
• Strong leadership skills
• Highly refined communication and presentation skills
• Excellent technical savvy and ability to reach consensus on technical direction
• Significant product expertise and organizational knowledge
• Demonstrates expertise and commitment to Design for Six Sigma practices, lean product development and waste elimination
• Significant technical toolbox (trade-studies, brainstorming, design evaluation matrices, risk management, CAD systems, CAE systems, test methods and systems, configuration management, ECR management, DFMEA, GD&T, or other appropriate design and analysis tools)
• Ability to coach, mentor, and motivate individuals to perform beyond their comfort zone
• Superb risk management skills for robust design
• Strong understanding of financial analysis tools
• Good strategic thinking skills (specifically relating to the corporate strategic planning and execution)

Education/Training: 

• 4 year technical/science degree or International equivalent required
• Masters, PhD or International equivalent preferred
• Greenbelt or Blackbelt experience preferred
• Champions training required within 1 year

Experience: 

• 8-12 years engineering experience in an identical or closely related field
• Previous management experience preferred
• Lean experience preferred