Assistant Manager-Product Engineering

Description

• Continuous Learning: Promote a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and collaboration, promoting cross-functional interactions and knowledge sharing among team members. Drive continuous improvement initiatives for process improvements, gathering feedback, analyzing data, and implementing enhancements to optimize performance and efficiency.
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with quality assurance and production operations to ensure product designs meet quality and manufacturing standards. Offer technical support and guidance to engineers on smaller projects, assisting them in meeting engineering and operational goals.
• Compliance: Understand and comply with all applicable Company policies and rules.
• Continuous Product Improvement: Drive initiatives to reduce costs, simplify designs, and implement product recommendations that align with business strategy. Help drive product improvements by supporting cost reduction, design simplification, and other short-term initiatives to improve product lines.
• Attend in-person or virtual meetings as requested or required.
• Day-to-Day Leadership: Support the oversight of product engineering activities for assigned product lines, focusing on short-term operational goals and ensuring work is scheduled and completed on time.
• Customer Feedback: Assist in managing product feedback and issues that arise from Salesforce or other sources, ensuring that the team addresses customer concerns promptly.
• Documentation and Reporting: Generate technical documentation, procedures, and reports to document processes.
• Goal Setting: Set and manage short-term operational goals for the product engineering team, ensuring alignment with tactical plans set by senior leaders.
• Leadership & People Management: Manage the day-to-day operations of the product engineering team, including scheduling work, tracking progress, and ensuring timely delivery of projects. Manage departmental administrative team member processes, including but not limited to recruitment, induction, vacation management, performance reviews, performance improvement plans, and workforce/succession planning.

Requirements

• Ability to plan and manage short-term goals, scheduling, and day-to-day team operations.
• Sound knowledge of product lifecycles, manufacturing processes, and industry trends within electrical manufacturing.
• 5-7 years of experience in product engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or a related engineering field.
• Leadership experience.
• Communicate effectively and respectfully with others.
• Ability to travel.
• Rounded knowledge of S&C's products or similar product offerings.
• Great interpersonal skills to establish meaningful relationships built on mutual trust and respect, navigate and resolve conflict, moderate behaviors, and foster collaborative working relationships amongst a diverse audience.
• Rounded project management skills with the ability to lead projects and product implementations.
• Expertise in problem-solving methodologies such as 4SPS, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Rounded communication skills (written, verbal, listening, and presentation); able to liaise with internal and external stakeholders at and present compellingly.
• Sound business sense and analytical skills with the ability to use and analyze data to drive informed decisions, solve complex problems, and drive learning.

Benefits

• Leave Benefits: Vacation Time, Sick Time, Paid Holidays and Company Shutdown days, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves, Paid Parental Time and Military Leave
• Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical & Prescription, Dental, Vision, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, , Health Savings Account (HSA), Group Life Insurance, optional Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance, Wellbeing Resources including Employee Assistance Program and Family Forming Benefits (i.e., Adoption and Fertility support)

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance