Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager is responsible for leading a team of manufacturing engineers who are dedicated to acquiring, installing, qualifying, and supporting the equipment necessary to produce high volume automotive products.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Manage and ensure the accuracy of all manufacturing engineering activities.
• Identify, develop, and deploy new manufacturing methods (or refine existing) to improve quality, reduce cost, and optimize build schedule.
• Ensure discipline related technical processes, procedures, and best practices are defined, documented, and followed in daily engineering activities.
• Ensure realistic project plans are developed and successfully executed within approved budget, scope, and quality goals.
• Maintain departmental day-to-day manufacturing engineering activities; monitors and achieves KPI’s and prioritizes assignments, workflow and scheduling of those activities.
• Provides manufacturing operations support daily.
• Supervises the modification of production processes, and the assessment of manufacturing abilities.
• Apply robust, consistent, and reliable engineering fundamentals and processes to ensure the highest quality of manufacturing.
• Ensures all manufacturing instructions and procedures for new and existing products are accurate and complete.
• Lead PFMEA studies to strengthen the feedback loop between design, build, and test.
• Establishes and takes ownership of departmental master plan.
• Works closely with the Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Maintenance Managers.
• Resolves problems by evaluating solutions that involve new techniques, technologies, or concepts.
• Confers with management, and production to determine engineering feasibility, cost effectiveness, and customer demand for new and existing products.
• Strong coaching skills to provide training and development for the organization.
• Strong capability to be the bridge between product development and manufacturing teams.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate others and achieve high quality results.
• Demonstrated commitment for product and process improvement, first time quality improvements, and reduction of scrap.
• Customer-focused in defining quality and establishing priorities.
• Drive the organization or process to achieve Key Performance Indicator’s (KPI’s) used to evaluate the success of an organization or a particular activity in which it engages.
• Coordinate team communications to ensure clear understanding of performance expectations and emerging issues.
• Work closely with each direct report to develop goals, career paths, and ensure professional development.
• Manage employee performance, conduct performance reviews, and provide constructive feedback.
• Involved in all recruiting efforts for the team.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree (Master’s degree preferred) in Engineering or Engineering Management required
• A minimum of 10 years management experience managing direct reports and projects or programs in a multi-disciplinary leadership role, preferably in automotive electronics assembly.
• Experience in leading and managing a multi discipline team of 15+ manufacturing engineers to support high volume production.
• Demonstrated ability in project management to be able to track the delivery and installation of equipment.
• Must have the capability to make the difficult decisions.
• Ability to manage multiple teams globally to deliver on a set timeline and escalate as required.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of Project Management methodology and associated project tracking.
• Ability to operate, make decisions, lead and make forward progress in fast moving environments.
• Proven experience and successful track record developing/starting new manufacturing processes and new product introductions.
• Motivated / Persistent individual that strives to succeed
• Must be self-managing and proactive.
• Must have the “Can Do” attitude.
• Must be highly flexible regarding work schedule and responsibilities.
• Must be a team player and want to succeed.
• Must be able and willing to overcome obstacles.
• Excellent English verbal and written communications skills.
• Excellent Interpersonal communication skills with expertise in communicating complicated topics to a broader audience