Design Manager

The Design Manager acts as the group manager, reporting directly to the Engineering Manager. In this position, the Design Manager is responsible for the career development of the Design Engineers to include training/coaching (both internal and external), career pathways, and skill development. The Design Manager is responsible for overseeing the investigation, recommendation, and implementation of new technologies by the organization to best support both in-house processes and projects as well as those in support of end customer projects.

In this role, the Design Manager is expected to conduct regular one on one meetings with their direct reports while conducting team meetings bi-weekly.

A Design Manager collaborates with coworkers, customers, and suppliers to utilize the latest technologies while creating equipment for integration into distribution and production solutions and throughout the material handling industry. This involves understanding the customer's goals and objectives in order to develop and support smart engineered solutions. The Design Manager is responsible for overseeing team members through all phases of their projects.

These phases include research and concepting, applications sales support, component selection, system design and layout using standard components or custom engineering when necessary, drawing package creation and release, design and release review, testing and troubleshooting.

The Design Manager is a position for an individual with the experience to apply technical skills learned previously to provide value to Bastian Solutions' engineering teams through assignment and oversight of engineering duties for other team members. The Design Manager's responsibility is to help direct the work of the team and serve as a mentor for experienced team members as well as Team Leads.

A successful Design Manager will be able to teach and orchestrate larger teams, with a demonstrated ability to understand engineering effort required to meet deadlines and motivate teams to do so. The ability to transfer subject matter expertise and understanding to other employees and/or customers and vendors is required. An understanding of project management and delegation of independent and collaborative work tasks is required to succeed in this position.

The Design Manager will be able to critically think and make decisions to support the team and projects. It will be necessary to demonstrate the ability to troubleshoot and solve design and project issues independently.

Job Functions:

* Promote and drive the creation, modification, and testing of equipment designs and layouts per customer and Bastian Solutions specifications and standards

* Collaborate with engineering managers and leads to promote efficient creation and execution of simulations for reach studies, cycle time estimates, and offline programming

* Ensure ISO training occurs regularly, processes are followed, with improvements and additions considered as part of continuous improvement efforts

* Ensure drawing and release packages are created and reviewed by mechanical and automation teams as needed to provide quality releases with minimal defects

* Continue to improve and automate the creation and release of mechanical bills of materials per Solid Works and AutoCAD models, drawings and schematics

* Oversee the pre-release of system mechanical components in conjunction with Project Managers

* Ensure drawings are updated to create proper revision As-Built packages at project shipment and As-Installed packages at project completion for install and maintenance teams, including spare parts recommendations and preventative maintenance documentation

* Promote continued development, documentation and improvement of standard equipment and library items

* Effectively communicate schedules, plans, and training to internal and external personnel

* Review creation and modification of maintenance manuals, preventative maintenance procedures, and troubleshooting guides to ensure adherence to templates and ease of understanding and use by end customers or other Bastian Solutions team members

* Attend and encourage others to attend training and become…