We have an awesome opportunity for an Engineering Manager to join a growing 60-year-old Tier 1 company manufacturing highly engineered parts for OEM electric and fuel-powered vehicles. This is your chance to become part of a team that believes in servant leadership, collaboration, safety, and quality. This team works hard, values lasting relationships, and most importantly, they have fun doing it!

We need an Engineering Manager who can:

• Lead all Engineering activities and team members
• Provide technical leadership for all engineering programs.
• Ensure customer requirements are met
• Participate in strategic business planning and lean initiatives
• Include the company’s Operating Values in daily activities

We offer you:

• A strong salary and quarterly bonus program
• Relocation support provided
• Located in scenic Eastern Missouri in an area that is a short drive to St. Louis
• Close to multiple colleges/universities
• Relocation support is provided. The area has a cost of living that is 25% lower than the US average!
• Strong Package includes Medical Insurance/ Prescription, Dental Insurance, Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Account, Retirement Plans, Quarterly Bonus Opportunities
• A tuition assistance program
• Have a work environment that values creativity, innovation, empathy, and collaboration
• A company that provides team members with opportunities for career advancement.

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DUTIES

• Leads a department of engineers accountable for managing all customer-driven and internal product changes and product launches.
• Managers projects and ensures project cost/budget, performance, and timing commitments are met.
• Leads implementation of engineering standard practices as defined by the New Product Review process
• Keep projects on time and task
• Reviews tooling, process, and document changes associated with the requested customer changes.
• Works with Program Management in a cross-functional product team environment.
• Leads quality management responsibilities within the engineering team, including,
• o Selection of special characteristics
• o Capacity analysis
• o Ensuring quality objectives are set and attained
• o Monitoring quality issues, identifying the root cause of quality problems, and identifying areas of improvement in the design process
• o Ensuring corrective and preventative actions are in place and followed when quality and nonconformance issues arise
• Implement lean manufacturing initiatives
• Provides technical leadership in the development of die-cast, M&A, and material flow processes.
• Engage in reviews for new products, tools, processes, and equipment and perform risk assessments.
• Ensure processes comply with quality management system procedures and standards
• Provides technical support to the Operations Team
• Support succession planning and talent development strategies by:
• o identifying successor candidates through recruitment and internal talent assessment
• o evaluating individual and team needs
• o creating development plans/goals
• o providing ongoing feedback and mentoring
• Ensures each team member understands their job roles, responsibilities, and expectations and by regularly providing feedback on performance.
• Articulates company goals and strategies and how team and individual goals/performance fit into these goals/strategies.
• Facilitates collaboration within the team and between other teams in the company.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related field.
• 8 years of progressive work experience in Engineering in a manufacturing environment
• 5 years of management experience
• High-volume automotive with automated machining, assembly, and tooling experience.
• Previous experience in die-casting operations with knowledge and expertise in mold flow modeling simulations and interpretations.
• Experience in lean manufacturing processes
• Advanced skills in CAD, PQ2, GD&T, and 5s and visual factory concepts.
• Skilled in the following:

1. Gating, runner design, PQ2 diagrams, atomization, gate velocity, and tool design;
2. Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques and programs
3. Blueprint/part print reading skills.
4. Strong knowledge of lean manufacturing concepts.