Engineering Manager

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This role does have supervisory responsibilities. ESSENTIAL DUTIES & KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: - Manages and coordinates the activities of the engineering department. - Discovers potential problems, solves problems, implements changes, and continuously monitors progress. - Attends production meetings on a regular basis for status updates and product launches. - Leads quoting process - Oversees the development of Engineering Masters. - Attends and participates in on-site client visits. - Budget responsibilities for engineering department including all software seats, training, travel and identifying new opportunities for continuous improvement in operations. - Develops and monitors policies and procedures for department. - Develops and presents updates in management meetings, such as management review meetings. - Directs department in scheduling workload and status of available hours. - Maintains and enforces compliance of directory structure. - Determines needs and cross-trains all employees to ensure backup in all areas. - Monitors programming machining times to quoted times. - Effectively and proactively manages continuous improvement on existing programs. - Sets goals for each employee and monitors their activity. - Responsible for employee development, including programming skills, problem solving, teamwork, and identifying team members for program management projects. - Facilitates good working relationships among subordinates and across all departments. - Monitors creation of set-up and tear-down documentation. - First line of engineering assistance for operations. - Responsible for all project schedules and projects within the department. - Conducts regular staff meetings and one on ones with staff. - Works with other functional areas (Sales, Purchasing, Manufacturing, etc.) to obtain cooperation, agreement or assistance as required to get the job done correctly within budget and on time. - Responsible for Performance Management, including selection, training, employee development, performance reviews, and disciplinary action. - Support manufacturing process in varying capacities, as required. SKILLS & COMPETENCIES: - Strong personnel leadership skills leading a team while developing leaders within the dept. - Strong communication and presentation skills up and down the organization. - Project Management skills to monitor and manage programs to meet internal and customer need dates. - Good organizational skills, ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize in a fast-paced environment. - Strong problem solving, decision making and process improvement skills. - Ability to develop and implement key engineering metrics to monitor dept. performance and ID gaps. - Must be an analytical thinker to think outside the box to come up with solutions. - Must be a team player that can work x functionally within the organization to come up with solutions. - Knowledge of manufacturing process - Knowledge of Microsoft Office, CAD (solid works) – knowledgeable with CAM software (AutoCAD Part Maker, SurfCam, Mastercam, etc.) - Must be able to develop and modify work instructions for the Mfg. engineering dept. along with the programming team. - Ability to multitask and prioritize needs in a fast-paced environment - Willing to do other things as required.