What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Controls Manager position at FLANDERS Inc.?
Our Systems Engineering team is looking for an experienced Engineering Controls Manager who will serve as a senior level member of FLANDERS' Engineering management team and hold responsibility for managing a team of control system engineers. This position will be tasked to drive and participate in technical strategy, innovation, product delivery and continuous improvement. This selected candidate must possess a range of technical and leadership skills as well as business acumen.
This position will be based Indianapolis!
Essential Functions :
- Frequently communicate and interface with customers' engineering teams to discuss FLANDERS engineering capabilities, customer applications / requirements, and coordinate project activities.
- Possess a broad knowledge of controls, power conversion, and their application to the industries, equipment, and customers that FLANDERS serves.
- Demonstrate strong project management independently, or in cooperation with others, to diligently collect information to form cost estimates, labor estimates, contingency plans, materials and supply chain lead times, prioritization, and resource availability.
- Demonstrate proficiency at collecting voice of the customer and translating the information into actionable plans and results.
- Stay up to date on current technologies in the industry as well as emerging technologies and trends.
- Research and conduct competitive analysis, including pricing and product, of key competitors and customers.
- Assist in overall product strategies and product roadmaps.
- Own and develop product requirements / functional specification by working with customers, field engineering, sales, and other associated product stakeholders.
- Demonstrate excellent skills in problem solving and project management.
- Develop and maintain engineering processes and standards.
- Prioritize respective engineering group's project and manage category pipeline.
- Actively assist in promoting FLANDERS and FLANDERS Engineering and selling to customers, partners, and others.
- Play a critical role in defining the overall product and growth strategy, by partnering with Business Development and Product Development.
- Coordinate and execute new product introductions with other functional departments through Stage Gate Process and / or FLANDERS commercialization process.
- Demonstrate proficiency in planning and managing departmental budgets and projects costs.
- Execute work in effective and efficient ways to best serve customers and attain Corporate goals.
