Engineering Manager

Job Description

Job Summary

This vital position leads a customer-facing team of project and design engineers, collaborating with internal and external customers to develop industry-leading designs for various products. The role involves design and engineering leadership, ensuring best practices for cost and manufacturability, and overseeing the transition from design through pre-production to full manufacturing. Additionally, the position includes providing customer support, making ongoing recommendations, and implementing plans for improved product quality and cost reductions. The ideal candidate will execute at a high level with known deliverables, cast a vision for the future, and plot the path to achieve it.

Essential Job Functions

• Lead an engineering team, managing the PDP process to develop products on time and on budget for our customers.
• Apply, prepare and present innovative problem-solving solutions to progress new product concepts, technologies and materials.
• Coach, mentor, develop and grow direct reports, holding the team accountable to organizational policies and procedures.
• Identifies, partners, and manages internal and external design programs and resources.
• A visible and engaged leadership style that empowers and promotes involvement, communication, clear expectations, accountability, and a passion for excellence.
• Foster an environment that aligns with Company’s core beliefs and values and builds upon a culture that is in service to our people and community.
• Assumes a leadership role of projects with strategic scope and complexity, overseeing the overall development and delivery of design and engineering.
• Initiates and maintains good working relationships with cross functional teams of the business to support and facilitate program design completion.
• Partners and leads business partners through the design process and final execution.
• Be a product visionary, driving industry trends and providing unique brand and product experience.

Minimum Requirements