Manfuacturing Tooling and Design Manager

Engineering Manager for Fasteners Business.

Fulton River Partners is excited to be working with a client based west of Chicago to hire an Engineering Manager to focus on both design and tooling for their Fasteners business. This role requires Cold Forming/Cold Heading experience.

Job Duties:

• 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.
• Languages Used EN
• Leads quoting process.
• Oversees the development of Engineering Masters.
• Attends and participates in on-site client visits.
• 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 and Abilities:

• Must have tool design experience with cold header machines and fasteners.
• Hands on in manufacturing environment
• 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.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, engineering technology or similar degree – master's degree is a plus.
• Must have experience in the production of fasteners.
• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment, specifically in metal working, automotive or other high tolerance industry required
• Five (5 ) years' experience leading a small group of technical engineers.
• Experience with working with customers on a technical basis – DFM, DFA, blueprint reviews, model reviews, routing development, etc.
• Strong experience in 3D Cad Modeling
• Strong experience with machining metal background
• Project management and organizational skills preferred.