Engineering Manager

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Stellar Industries is a leading manufacturer of direct bond copper and thin film ceramic substrates . We are a supplier to solve critical thermal challenges in the Aerospace, Photonics, Telecommunications, and Commercial industries. Stellar Industries is part of the TRUMPF Group.

The Engineering Manager leads Stellar Industries’ Engineering Department. Our manufacturing technologies range from high-temperature ceramic and metallurgic treatments, liquid resist and dry film photolithography, wet chemical etching and cleaning, and electrolytic plating to various CNC controlled high-precision machining operations. The Engineering Department establishes new, maintains, and continuously improves Stellar’s existing production processes. Processing uptime and yield are crucial to support manufacturing in a high-mix to mid-volume business model.

The Engineering Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Department, as well as the technical and professional development of the engineering team.

• Manage the day-to-day operation of the production engineering organization
• Responsible for maintaining the production capabilities to support yield, scrap value, and on-time delivery goals
• Establish processing time, throughput, and yield standards to support production costing
• Implement and maintain process control tools, such as SPC
• Lead the exception responses, including the engineering aspects of NCRs and CARs
• Identify and lead yield improvement and scrap reduction initiatives
• Develop and maintain product design guidelines based on process capabilities
• Lead the manufacturing introduction of new processes, production, and metrology equipment
• In cooperation with the Quality Department, establish and follow processes for engineering change management
• In cooperation with other Departments, develop capital equipment roadmap, and plan manufacturing equipment acquisition and commissioning
• Lead engineering team to excel, determine the need for, and execute staff training and talent development
• Provide regular status updates to management

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant Engineering or Science Discipline, for example, Chemical Engineering or Materials Engineering
• Ten or more years of experience as a practicing engineer. Three or more years’ experience managing and developing an engineering team.
• Track record of leading engineering teams to meet goals in a production environment
• Exceptional ability to communicate verbally and in writing with a wide variety of customers, vendors, and staff.
• Broad knowledge of ceramics and metal materials and processing, wet chemical etching and cleaning, thermal processing, photolithography, and related metrology methodologies.
• Expert knowledge in at least one of the disciplines above.
• US Citizenship or Immigration Status compatible with ITAR and EAR compliance.

• Employees (and their families) are eligible to participate in the company's medical, dental, employer paid vision, and employer paid basic life insurance and disability Insurance.
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 4-Day workweek (Monday – Thursday)
• Employees will initially accrue annually 128 hours of paid time off.
• Employees are eligible to enroll in the Company’s 401(k) plan.
• For informational purposes only, the range for annual base salary for this role is $125,000 to $165,000 US Dollar (USD), Salaried based on a variety of factors. For informational purposes only, this role is eligible to participate in the Company’s Bonus Plan based on the Company’s performance in the prior fiscal year.