Engineering Manager
All job requirements listed are requirements for the core responsibilities of this position. This position may require other activities and duties as assigned by their manager.
- Lead the team: Direct and develop the multidisciplinary Sustaining Engineering team through coaching, training, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance.
- Prioritize work and set deadlines: Establish clear work priorities, assign ownership, allocate resources, and set achievable deadlines for tasks and deliverables. Balance urgent production and field issues, customer orders and engineering-to-order work, strategic initiatives, and planned product improvements.
- Support existing products: Resolve technical issues and eliminate recurring failures to improve equipment reliability, performance, manufacturability, serviceability, and cost.
- Control engineering output: Ensure drawings, bills of materials, specifications, and product configurations are accurate, complete, and released on time. Manage engineering changes through impact assessment, approval, release, implementation, and verification.
- Drive on-time execution: Establish scope, schedules, milestones, and risk mitigation for multiple engineering assignments, projects, and initiatives. Hold the team accountable for meeting agreed deadlines, review progress regularly, remove barriers, and take timely corrective action when delivery is at risk. Coordinate priority or resource changes and communicate schedule risks early to meet quality, cost, and delivery commitments.
- Verify changes: Oversee requirements definition, design reviews, prototyping, testing, and validation of equipment modifications to meet applicable safety, quality, performance, and industry standards.
- Improve engineering practices: Establish standards, tools, engineering analysis methods, and structured problem-solving practices. Use daily and visual management to drive measurable improvements in engineering quality and efficiency.
- Coordinate across functions: Work with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, service, sales, product management, and customers to resolve issues, clarify requirements, and support equipment throughout its lifecycle.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field from an ABET-accredited program.
- At least five years of engineering leadership and management experience, including product improvement.
- At least three years of experience designing and supporting capital equipment or industrial machinery. This experience may overlap with the leadership requirement.
- Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary mechanical, electrical, and controls engineering teams; coach engineers; and develop technical capabilities.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize competing demands, and allocate resources to meet schedule, quality, and cost objectives, balancing urgent support with planned improvements.
- Strong analytical, communication, cross-functional collaboration, customer interaction, and financial decision-making skills.
Knowledge/Skills
- Technical expertise: Strong knowledge of equipment design, engineering analysis, materials, manufacturing methods, control systems, testing, and applicable industry standards.
- Production and field support: Experience resolving engineering issues affecting manufacturing, assembly, installation, service, and installed equipment.
- Engineering change control: Experience managing change impact assessment, approval, release, implementation, and verification for production and installed equipment.
- Configuration and documentation: Working knowledge of CAD/PDM or PLM systems, ERP integration, bills of materials, drawings, revision control, and product configuration management.
- Reliability and corrective action: Experience using structured problem-solving and root-cause analysis to investigate failures and verify corrective actions using production, service, warranty, and customer feedback.
- Manufacturability and cost reduction: Demonstrated ability to improve manufacturing, assembly, serviceability, standardization, and product cost without compromising requirements.
- Supplier and component lifecycle support: Experience qualifying replacement components, resolving supplier-related technical issues, and managing component obsolescence.
- Safety and validation: Experience assessing design risks and defining verification and validation appropriate to the impact of equipment changes.
- Continuous improvement and judgment: Ability to establish effective engineering practices, implement measurable process improvements, and make timely, informed decisions that balance customer needs and operational goals.
Preferred
- Experience leading embedded systems engineering and development.
- Experience supporting standard equipment platforms and engineered-to-order configurations.
- Experience transitioning products from development into production and sustaining support.
- Experience using engineering performance measures such as change lead time, backlog aging, repeat failures, warranty trends, and cost-reduction results.
- Experience with hygienic equipment design and washdown environments, where applicable to the product portfolio.
Travel: up to 10% as needed.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Ability to work for extended periods of time at a workstation on a computer or similar device. Occasional extended periods of standing, bending, kneeling.
Working Conditions
This job operates in both an office setting and a manufacturing warehouse. This role routinely uses standard office equipment, hand tools, and material handling equipment.
Employment with Cantrell-Gainco is contingent upon successfully completing both a pre-employment background check and a drug screening. All candidates hired must be able to provide proper documentation of their eligibility to work in the US (I-9 form). Cantrell-Gainco is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities / Females / Disabled / Veterans (M/F/D/V)
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