Engineering Manager

We’re growing! Are you interested in a role where you get to be a hands-on Engineering leader working to provide medical solutions for patients suffering from diabetes? Then join us as the Engineering leader for a high precision reel to reel photo- chemical etching manufacturing operations in Attleboro, Massachusetts. You will be responsible for all aspects of the company’s engineering activities. You will focus on building a cohesive team; be involved from conceptualization to day-to-day management of simultaneous projects. You will deliver manufacturable designs to agreed specifications within time and budget constraints, while providing innovative solutions to our customers.

JOB DUTIES & ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Serve as a key member of the leadership team that sets the business’s strategic direction.
• Serve as primary expert for all stamping and tooling activities.
• Formulate long-term objectives and standards of performance for any department involved in stamping, secondary and automation activities.
• Communicate long-term objectives and performance standards to staff and provide frequent feedback on the department’s performance against those objectives and performance standards.
• Assure that department achieves objectives and project completion within budget and time frame.
• Investigate root cause and implement corrective action to restore performance to prescribed standards when required.
• Ensure implementation and refinement as required of formal process to support the engineering development process.
• Manage diverse, simultaneous projects of varying complexities and ensure that engineering is focused on meeting and exceeding the customer requirements.
• Develop, test, modify, implement, and validate solutions to technical problems and optimize existing programs including design of equipment, machinery, and processes.
• Present reports on applicable performance during Management Reviews.
• Participate in customer early involvement as needed, including estimating and project management.
• Participate in NPI, APQP, FMEA, processes as required.
• Ensure all process changes follow the ECN process and are documented.
• Participate with company teams in meeting customer quality and delivery requirements.
• Be a student of current industry trends, ensuring that the company maintains and expands its technology leadership position.
• Follow all International Standards that apply to our certification and QMS.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Engage your team and provide technical direction and guidance, as well as hands-on project management, recognizing that the role is that of both manager and support resource / mentor.
• Provide training, career path planning, & mentoring for all direct reports. Ensure that the team’s responsibilities are clear and aligned to business objectives.
• Continue to promote a pay for performance culture.
• Drive a collaborate and solutions-oriented culture.

EDUCATION / SKILLS / QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field.
• Highly attentive with attention to detail.
• Effective listening and communication skills, both oral and written with ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information, respond to questions, and interact with all levels of the organization.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business documents, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, customers, employees and the general public.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as tolerances, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic geometry. Ability to apply concepts of basic geometry and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Self-starter with passion and driven for continuous improvement.
• Intermediate computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft Word & Excel, Mini Tab, & other Advanced Statistical Software.
• Capable of conducting DOE’s.
• Ability to interface with customers, deal with difficult issues tactfully and professionally and build strong working relationships.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Intermediate to advanced math skills including ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, areas, ratios, circumference, and volume.
• Sound reasoning skills with ability to solve practical operational problems, define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions, and apply understanding to carry out instructions furnished in oral, written, or diagram form.