Engineering Manager

Sonny's Enterprises is the world's largest manufacturer of conveyorized car wash equipment, parts, and supplies. We are the industry leader, recognized and awarded by the International Car Wash Association for innovating new technologies to advance the industry with products proudly designed and built in the USA. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We embrace change and the opportunity it produces to maximize the potential of our most valuable resource — our PEOPLE!

We invite you to explore our opportunities and grow your career with us.

• Launches new equipment into production and sustains reengineering of existing equipment quality, cost and delivery improvement.
• Maintain inventory of equipment/tools/spare parts, setup/work instructions, and TPM maintenance to benchmark the organization’s knowledge base.
• Leads and directs the engineering and maintenance teams.
• Manages and directs the timely execution of projects, from inception to completion.
• Leads and advises teams, gathering and analyzing manufacturing process to identify key issues and bringing corrective action, to drive toward Company objectives.
• Technical problem solving, with the ability to exercise independent judgment.
• Identifying, investigating and implementing innovation technology solutions.
• Development and management of design changes and/or upgrades.
• Provide training and direction in the development and implementation of production and process improvements through root cause analysis and corrective action.
• Innovative and creativity motivation of staff, creating a culture and passion of continuous improvement.
• Drives and supports continuous improvement initiatives, supporting strategic and operational initiatives.
• Participates in annual strategic budgeting and planning process, with department budgeting responsibility.
• Focus design efforts on delivering cost effective, manufacturable solutions
• Lead activities to identify and development new materials and technologies
• Support component manufacturing and sourcing activities
• Define engineering specifications and test protocols
• Support new product production launch activities
• Monitors employee performance to track progress
• Monitors scheduled vs. actual work to ensure that targets are met
• Analyzes and reports on KPIs
• Responsible for ensuring proper employee training is in place and documented.
• Addresses problems or concerns immediately (e.g., service, operations, scheduling, personnel) and gets appropriate parties involved.
• Developing 12-month plan with staffing levels and skills based on forecast, seasonality and historical needs. Developing and creating job requisitions that will meet our needs. Working with Operations Manager to create an interview process that will adequately evaluate the candidate’s qualifications, skill level and aptitude.
• Provides expert technical guidance for engineering initiatives.
• Develop a rolling 6-month cross training plan to provide all personnel with the skills needed to perform their jobs with a focus on further development.
• Consistently complete employee reviews on schedule. Focusing on specific areas of improvement, goals ranging from 1 month to 1 year with specific deliverables and actions. Goals should reflect the mission and vision of operations department specifically for that employee’s role. Soliciting and utilizing employee feedback for their own development.
• Create/modify work instructions.
• Create/modify technical manuals.
• Mechanical Design Changes.
• Create/ modify 2D Mechanical Drawings
• Create/modify 3D parts & assemblies
• Create/ modify 2D Mechanical Drawings
• Other Duties as assigned

• Engineering and Technology
  - Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
• Design
  - Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• Mechanical
  - Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Mathematics
  - Knowledge of arithmetic,…