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Engineering Manager
Job in
Spring Lake, Ottawa County, Michigan, 49456, USA
Listed on 2026-08-19
Listing for:
MillerKnoll
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-08-19
Job specializations:
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Engineering
Operations Management -
Management
Operations Management
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Why join us?
Our purpose is design for the good of humankind. It's the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of Herman Miller means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows Herman Miller to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.
GENERAL PURPOSE
- Responsible for leading and supervising a multi-functional team in the successful design, development, production launch, and/or maintenance of Herman Miller products.
- These efforts align with the product strategy and focus on support of the current and emerging product applications.
- Manages headcount, deliverables, schedules, and costs for multiple ongoing projects and programs, ensuring that resources are appropriately allocated and that goals, objectives, timelines, and budgets are met in accordance with program and organizational roadmaps.
- Participates in the planning of projects or tasks.
- Analyzes supply chain cost, value stream capabilities and economic principles, making appropriate recommendations.
- Assigns, monitors, reviews progress and accuracy of work, directing efforts and providing technical guidance on more complex issues.
- Builds and develops a strong team; distributes the workload equitably.
- Captures and effectively communicates in-depth technical knowledge.
- Conceptualizes, drives and executes solutions to the most complex problems.
- Identifies and implements changes in procedures.
- Identifies individual team member career development needs and resources/activities to address them.
- Identifies opportunities and owns improvements to products and processes.
- Maintains, applies and teaches engineering expertise with superior results.
- Makes decisions in a timely manner, sometimes with incomplete information and under tight deadlines and pressure.
- Manages major project budgets; accountable for expenses.
- Leads a cross-functional team.
- Mentors new talent by teaching engineering knowledge and skills.
- Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.
- Presents work output in a clear and concise manner.
- Regularly works on major projects or must solve very complex problems.
- Responsible for setting engineering quality standards.
- Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.
- Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.
- 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.
- Education/Experience - Not Parsed
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited program. Master's degree preferred.
- 10+ years of professional engineering experience
- Direct leadership experience preferred, but not required
- Proven track record of attaining success in engineering assignments.
- Possesses leadership qualities.
- Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication skills, including professional presentation skills.
- Strong business acumen including basic knowledge in accounting, finance, quality, marketing, and operations.
- Fluency in new product development processes with proven ability to lead teams in the conceptualization and implementation of new products.
- Must have basic understanding of engineering and quality tools such as Pro Engineer, PDM, ERP, Reliability, GD&T, QFD/House of Quality, DFMEA, PFMEA, DFA, Control Plans, and Statistical Process Control; and how they are utilized to improve business results.
- Thorough knowledge of project management concepts: scheduling, MS Project, scope management and control, resource management, and budgeting; proven ability to apply these concepts successfully to manage projects to achieve business results.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively use office automation, communication, software and tools currently used in the HMI office environment.
- Ability to perform all essential functions with or without accommodation.
- Additional
Skills and Abilities
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
- Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with or without accommodations.
Simply put, we hire qualified applicants representing a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. Herman Miller is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and…
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