Engineering Manager in Palm Bay

Job Description

• Champion and fully support integration of customers quality flow down requirements.
• Partner and collaborate with technical engineers, project engineers, manufacturing engineers, CNC programmers, estimators, and shop floor employees to ensure program goals, requirements, and needs are understood and achieved.
• Monitor project plans and execution to ensure technical and work scope requirements, schedule, and budget are well defined and maintained.
• Ensure engineering efforts are planned and executed in accordance with company policies, procedures, processes, and best practices.
• Provide the coordination between the engineering team, functional managers, and product line supervisor, to ensure all necessary reviews are conducted and approvals are received.
• Assure and verify compliance of manufacturing methods as defined on customer purchase order, drawings, and specifications requirements.
• Approve new and revise customer purchase orders during the purchase order review and validate compliance.
• Collaborate with other management personnel to develop and maintain new products and design change milestones.
• Manage and prioritize tooling and program requests to appropriate CNC programmers and manufacturing engineers.
• Review and approve all BOM’s, manufacturing routers, fixtures designs and CNC programs.
• Lead efforts pertaining to customer product reviews to include production readiness reviews when applicable.
• Responsible to ensure First Article and Production Process Approval tasks are completed and approvals are obtained for deliverable products as applicable.
• Reviews and approves all estimators quotes for accuracy and compliance to customers flow down requirements.
• Review and disposition product repairs, reworks, and MRB’s.
• Investigate and oversee root cause and corrective actions on assigned programs.
• Lead efforts pertaining to customer escapes utilizing all other engineering members to ensure accurate data is quickly available for review by the Quality Manager.
• Participate in assigned customer communication pertaining to technical, quality, schedule, and cost.
• Recommend safety and ergonomic improvements in our material handling devices, manufacturing tools, and workstations to accommodate best practices for shop floor personnel.
• Participate in discussions with customers and suppliers as required.
• Occasional traveling to customers and supply chain may be required.
• Build our relationship and partnership with assigned customers to grow our business and sales according to management’s business plan.
• Support all internal and external audits.
• Other duties may be assigned as necessary.

• Ability to effectively make complex decisions with limited time and information and can determine decision making criteria based on priorities.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple disciplines with internal and external resources.
• Strong analytical capabilities, with a basic understanding of statistical analysis techniques.
• Strong people skills, independent problem resolution, proven leadership ability, and the ability to manage the requirements of others.
• Comfortable leading discussion and debate both within peer group and with matrix business partners, operational partners, and leaders.
• Working knowledge of ERP systems.
• Minimum 2 years leading Engineering efforts on the Department of Defense (DoD) programs.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field.
• PMP certified (Project Management Professional)
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in manufacturing and/or cost estimating.
• Must have working knowledge of the CAD/CAM system use, shop mathematics, sheet metal fabrication, machining, welding, inspection methods, and coatings.
• Must be proficient using Microsoft Office products, including Project.
• Proficient in guiding and mentoring team members.
• Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and on a team.
• Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Must be able to communicate and read English proficiently.

• Must be able to lift, move, transport and…