Engineering Manager

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Cantrell - Gainco
2579 Monroe Drive
Gainesville, GA 30507, USA

• On-site
• ENGINEERING
• Full-Time

All job requirements listed are requirements for the core responsibilities of this position. This position may require other activities and duties as assigned by their manager.

• Lead the team:
  Direct and develop the multidisciplinary Sustaining Engineering team through coaching, training, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance.
• Prioritize work and set deadlines:
  Establish clear work priorities, assign ownership, allocate resources, and set achievable deadlines for tasks and deliverables. Balance urgent production and field issues, customer orders and engineering-to-order work, strategic initiatives, and planned product improvements.
• Support existing products:
  Resolve technical issues and eliminate recurring failures to improve equipment reliability, performance, manufacturability, serviceability, and cost.
• Control engineering output:
  Ensure drawings, bills of materials, specifications, and product configurations are accurate, complete, and released on time. Manage engineering changes through impact assessment, approval, release, implementation, and verification.
• Drive on-time execution:
  Establish scope, schedules, milestones, and risk mitigation for multiple engineering assignments, projects, and initiatives. Hold the team accountable for meeting agreed deadlines, review progress regularly, remove barriers, and take timely corrective action when delivery is rdinate priority or resource changes and communicate schedule risks early to meet quality, cost, and delivery commitments.
• Verify changes:
  Oversee requirements definition, design reviews, prototyping, testing, and validation of equipment modifications to meet applicable safety, quality, performance, and industry standards.
• Improve engineering practices:
  Establish standards, tools, engineering analysis methods, and structured problem‑solving practices. Use daily and visual management to drive measurable improvements in engineering quality and efficiency.
• Coordinate across functions:
  Work with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, service, sales, product management, and customers to resolve issues, clarify requirements, and support equipment throughout its lifecycle.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field from an ABET-accredited program.
• At least five years of engineering leadership and management experience, including product improvement.
• At least three years of experience designing and supporting capital equipment or industrial machinery. This experience may overlap with the leadership requirement.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary mechanical, electrical, and controls engineering teams; coach engineers; and develop technical capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize competing demands, and allocate resources to meet schedule, quality, and cost objectives, balancing urgent support with planned improvements.
• Strong analytical, communication, cross-functional collaboration, customer interaction, and financial decision‑making skills.

Knowledge/Skills

• Technical expertise:
  Strong knowledge of equipment design, engineering analysis, materials, manufacturing methods, control systems, testing, and applicable industry standards.
• Production and field support:
  Experience resolving engineering issues affecting manufacturing, assembly, installation, service, and installed equipment.
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