Job Description: |  | Position Summary
The Mechanical Engineering Manager directs and guides all activities relating to client mechanical engineering efforts. The selected individual must demonstrate strong leadership and inspire excellence by keeping teams focused on delivering world-class products. He/she shall exercise initiative and independent judgment in creating structured engineering design processes that promote effectiveness and efficiency as well as champion, develop, and implement continuous process improvements.
The Mechanical Engineering Manager provides strong technical direction by evaluating and guiding product strategy, design, development, and related activities across various projects. Ensures excellence and compliance in project execution through effective project management and inter-departmental collaboration. Guides change management, project planning, and resource allocation. Champions continuous process improvement.
Essential Job Functions
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
·Manages, plans, and directs mechanical engineering activities and staff with overall responsibility for delivering high quality products on time and on budget that meet/exceed requirements.
·Establishes high quality standard for department and promotes sense of urgency and accountability.
·Analyzes design, test, and feasibility studies of subsystems, assemblies, and their components to identify opportunities for design or time-to-market improvements.
·Establishes and implements structured engineering design processes and metrics that effectively measure and improve team performance.
·Continuously seeks innovative ways to improve development productivity through the introduction of new technologies, tools, systems, methods, and controls.
·Monitors and implements industry best practices to develop techniques to accomplish rapid execution of design related tasks, with a focus on getting things accomplished in the fewest calendar days possible.
·Works closely with key stakeholders to define new products and ensure products meet or exceed customer requirements.
·Ensures that proper documentation, such as test specifications, design changes and procedures, is provided to the appropriate functional areas.
·Selects, develops, and provides guidance, coaching, and mentoring to mechanical engineering staff, including performance management and evaluations.
·Acts as liaison with Marketing, Sales, Program Management, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, Customer Service.
·Responsible for resource allocation of staff within work level demands and budgetary constraints.
·Participates in developing and managing annual operating budget.
·Monitors project status and pursues corrective action, as required in terms of schedules, budgets, priorities, staffing, and work quality.
·Other applicable duties, as assigned or required.
Two Roads is an Equal Opportunity Employer: EOE M/F/V/D |