What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Operations Manager position at Hyliion?
Hyliion is committed to creating innovative solutions that enable clean, flexible and affordable electricity production. The Company’s primary focus is to develop distributed power generators that can operate on various fuel sources to future-proof against an ever-changing energy economy.
Job Purpose
As the Engineering Operations Manager, you will be at the core of our engineering organization, ensuring operational and technical excellence while executing high-priority initiatives from the CTO and Program Management offices. This role requires a strong foundation in engineering fundamentals, exceptional decision-making skills, and a highly energetic and collaborative personality to drive continuous improvement, development, and growth within our teams. This role requires a blend of operational expertise and leadership capabilities to drive both engineering performance and team development.
Duties and Responsibilities
Operational Execution
- Oversee and optimize hour-by-hour engineering operations, ensuring smooth execution of projects, incident response, and prioritization of critical tasks.
Strategic Initiatives
- Lead and implement special operational and strategic objectives from the CTO’s office to enhance efficiency and performance.
Decision-Making & Problem-Solving
- Utilize strong engineering fundamentals and data-driven insights to make informed operational decisions.
Operational Excellence
- Drive a culture of operational excellence across engineering, operations, supply chain, and other teams, ensuring high standards of efficiency, quality, and execution.
Servant Leadership & Employee Growth
- Foster a culture of servant leadership, mentorship, and professional development for engineers. Assist engineering managers with development, goals and execution within their teams.
Collaboration & Communication
- Act as a key liaison with program management team between engineering, product, supply chain, and other cross-functional teams to streamline workflows and improve alignment.
Qualifications
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Qualifications include:
- Education, Experience and Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- At least 5 years in engineering operations, engineering leadership, with a track record of developing and scaling engineering teams, or a related role.
- Proven experience in leading cross-functional teams, managing complex projects, and driving operational efficiency, and team growth and development.
- Skills and Abilities
- Strong engineering fundamentals with the ability to understand and support complex technical initiatives.
- Ability to make sound operational and technical decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- A proactive and engaging approach to problem-solving and team collaboration.
- Passion for developing teams, mentoring engineers, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Ability to translate high-level goals into actionable operational initiatives.
- Strong ability to communicate across all levels of the organization, ensuring alignment and clarity.
Role Classification and Working Conditions
This is a salaried, exempt-level position. This position typically works in an office environment; and given the nature of our business is also exposed to operations/warehouses/production environments.
Physical/Other Requirements
- Ability to travel, as needed (approx. 10% of the time, mostly between Cincinnati, Ohio and Austin, Texas offices).
Benefits:
- Medical Plans, with PPO or HDHP options
- Dental Plans, with buy-up option
- Vision Plan
- Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Plans, with buy-up options
- Short Term Disability, paid for by the company
- Long Term Disability, paid for by the company
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 401k/Roth 401k
- Voluntary Accident Plans
- Voluntary Critical Illness Plans
- Hospital Indemnity Plan
Hyliion is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, disability, veteran status. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to otherwise participate in the employment selection process, please direct your inquires to Hyliion’s human resources department at HR@hyliion.com.
