Engineering Manager

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Lippert is a leading, global manufacturer and supplier of highly engineered products and customized solutions, dedicated to shaping, growing and bettering the RV, marine, automotive, commercial vehicle and building products industries. We combine our strategic manufacturing capabilities with the power of our winning team culture to deliver unrivaled customer service, award-winning innovation and premium products to all of our customers.

At Lippert, Everyone Matters. This is not just a tagline or empty promise; it is who we are. We have intentionally created a culture that values and celebrates our team members’ unique and varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We strive to give our team members a deeper sense of purpose at work, and we continue to build a better work environment by aligning our cultural and business strategies with the needs of our team members.

• A unique, inclusive and supportive company culture.
• Comprehensive benefit offerings including medical, dental, vision, 401k with employer match, vacation, and more!
• Fair and competitive compensation.
• Career development and mentoring and opportunities to grow.
• Holiday, personal and vacation days.

Effectively lead the Chassis Engineering team to ensure the successful execution of the core and peripheral functions.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Lead engineering department and processing documents for all fabrication.
• Oversee programming of all machinery.
• New SKU creation, routes, and BOMs.
• Training the programming team on all aspects of new and existing machinery.

• Recruit and onboard new team members
• Oversee a 30+ member team
• Directly manage 4-6 Team Leaders
• Develop current and potential team leaders to become more effective at their current or future roles
• Communicate/cooperate with Operations on product or process improvement initiatives
• Communicate/cooperate with Sales to effectively field requests or complications from OEMs
• Communicate/cooperate with OEMs to effectively field requests or complications
• Uphold, develop and implement Engineering standards and practices to maintain and/or further the advancement of the Engineering department through how it operates or the product it manages
• Oversee and assist in team member engagement strategies
• Advocate on behalf of team members by securing adequate resources for success

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Primarily working indoors, office environment.
• May sit for several hours at a time.
• Prolonged exposure to computer screens.
• Repetitive use of hands to operate computers, printers, and copiers.
• Travel to customer or other Lippert facilities may be required
• Floor time at customers or other Lippert facilities may be required which may include walking, kneeling, crouching, sitting, standing

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
• Auto CAD
• Solid Works
• Sigmanest
• Robowave
• Lantek
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications

• Must be able to work as a part of a team to achieve the company’s overall goals.
• Ability to work with and apply mathematical concepts.
• Ensure all SKUs are programmed for all machinery.
• Responsible for all training within the department.
• Ensure that all machines are programmed in a timely manner.
• Delegate the workload between team members.

• Act as a leader of the group, but also perform similar work.
• Supervise: assign work to be done, methods used and take responsibility for all of the group’s work.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

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