Seeking an Engineering Manager to join our fast-paced leadership team – someone who loves to lead Engineers in transforming design concepts and customer needs into elegant, practical designs. In our fast-paced manufacturing environment, our ideal Engineering Manager leads our team of design Engineers in meeting and exceeding internal and customer requirements, feels a strong sense of ownership of the full product designs, and works proactively with the rest of our leadership team for rapid, continuous improvement.
Wants
- Presentation Skills – comfortable and effective in presenting technical aspects of Company’s product to non-technical customers at any level from buyer to C-suite
- Demonstrated success leading teams of design Engineers in mechanical and electromechanical products
- Fanatical customer-focus to ensure we exceed their needs and wants
- Finely tuned sense of cost and value – in design cost estimating and driving continual cost reduction
- Passion for configuration management and configuration controls
- Effectiveness in translating between Engineering and business-oriented communications
- An adaptable, flexible, high-energy personality
You will be managing several design Engineers and other Engineering support staff to get the job done, every day!
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Working knowledge of SolidWorks or other 3D modeling software
- Solid working knowledge of PDM, and ERP systems. Experience with Abas ERP highly desired
- Estimating – quick, reasonably accurate, repeatable cost estimation
- Team leadership – guidance and growth for Engineers, resource and capacity planning. Ability to guide and coordinate Engineers and make decisions when necessary
- Technical project management – organization, tenacity, scheduling, attention to detail
- Sales support – Responsive to sales with info, guidance and support presales and immediately after the sale
- Multidisciplinary technical competence – sheet metal, additive manufacturing, electrical, displays/computers, systems integration
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple simultaneous tasks, and to assess and prioritize tasks
- Strong record of successful engineering design project execution
- Significant experience designing electrical and electromechanical systems
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to communicate highly technical issues to non-technical audiences from direct hourly labor to C-Suite level
- Ability to effectively discern business priorities and business/customer needs, translate these into technical requirements, and effectively communicate these requirements to design engineers
Benefits
- Health insurance (Kaiser HMO, Blue Shield HMO, Blue Shield PPO)
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- 401k with employer match
- Paid vacation
- Paid holidays
