Senior Manager - Engineering Services

Mini-Circuits designs, manufactures and distributes integrated circuits, modules, and sub-systems for high-performance radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications. With design, sales, and manufacturing locations in over 30 countries, Mini-Circuits’ products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications. Our products are also used in detection, measurement, and imaging applications, including military communication, guidance, and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific, military land, sea, and aircraft;

automotive systems, medical systems, and industrial test equipment.

Mini-Circuits sells its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, and sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website.

The Sr Manager of Engineering Services will be responsible for the management, development, and continuous improvement of the Corporate Engineering Services organization. Together with the Eng. Services team and it’s internal customers, this position will oversee the collaborative efforts to develop phased plans and improvement roadmaps for each sub-department in alignment with organizational goals, while prioritizing based on the most significant pain points and opportunities for efficiency gains.

The Director of Eng. Services must understand the existing Engineering Services capabilities, liabilities, and technologies, make necessary course corrections to ensure on-time delivery commitments of scheduling, capabilities, features, and development costs. The Director will determine technological needs for meeting demands (present and future) for Product Development, Engineering Services and Manufacturing.

Salary Range
: $175,000 - $200,000 per year

• Manage sub-departments of Engineering Services from a strategic perspective and evaluate the efficiency, quality, and effectiveness of contributions to ensure sustainability and alignment with organizational objectives
  • CAD/Doc organization:
    • Oversee management and team that collaborates with Product Development for new product releases and Manufacturing for ongoing improvements and Engineering Change Orders (ECO) within the PLM tool.
    • Initiate and close out all ECR/ECO, NPR/NPO documentation, along with generating the necessary documentation such as BOMs, assembly drawings, work instructions, etc.
  • RF Engineering Test:
    • Improve the efficiency and focus of management and team.
    • Ensure that key goals are achieved consistently and on time.
    • Develop metrics to evaluate use of resources and implement changes and drive improvements.
    • Assess and implement development opportunities for staff (Test Engineers)
  • Test System Strategy:
    • Define and implement a global company test system strategy that consists of hardware & software used to evaluate, characterize, and test products with the appropriate flexibility balanced with global consistency, revision control and efficiency optimization.
    • This test system needs to be properly planned and executed by
    • Evaluating to determine the appropriate external tools to consider within organizational priorities
    • Architecting the solution using modern software methods/standards
    • Implementing the solution, to be released in phases resulting in worldwide consistency
  • Mechanical & Printed Circuit Board Teams:
    • Evaluate these teams’ workload and priorities to drive better services to internal customers and efficiency.
    • Provide guidance and advisement where needed to smaller support teams
  • Product Development Operational Strategy
    • Introduce and oversee ongoing improvements to the product generation process (PGP).
    • Manage software subscription management, IT initiatives, audit preparation, patent admin, R&D Headcount/budget…