Description

What you will do

This position manages activities and allocates resources within the Manufacturing Engineering – Fabrication function to meet Divisional, Site, and Value Stream goals. He/she/they will lead a group of Manufacturing Engineers and Technicians to design and develop tools, controls, equipment, and processes to support manufacturing fabrication operations of HVAC light commercial units. A significant portion of the manager’s time is dedicated to team development, performance management, and organizational leadership responsibilities.

How you will do it

• Serves as the manufacturing engineering lead for Norman’s Manufacturing Engineering team. 
• Provides direction and guidance to technician and engineering staff who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments.
• Aligns resources and identifies opportunities for improvement within the existing processes and systems.
• Builds strong relationships and collaborates with cross-functional teams including Operations, Maintenance Quality, R&D, Supplier Engineering, and Continuous improvement functions.
• Ensures that inputs from all internal and external customers are understood, plans are appropriately developed, and drives accountability and execution to plans.
• Utilizes excellent communication skills, demonstrating leadership communicating both up and down the organization.
• Influences, guides, and manages internal/external resources to achieve program goals.
• Provides significant guidance and approval regarding technical strategies and approaches.
• Recruits, coaches, and develops organizational talent.
• Fosters a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• Creates an entrepreneurial environment.
• Keeps the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action.
• Demonstrates effective change leadership.
• Develops and executes organizational and operational policies that affect one or more groups by utilizing technical/professional knowledge and skills.
• Monitors and ensures compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Makes decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules to achieve department objectives.
• Develops, monitors, and appropriately adjusts the annual budget for assembly department.
• Strong Capital Planning skills: budget, application and project management

Requirements

What we look for

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline
• 10+ years of related work experience with metal stamping, welding, bending, punching, painting, cutting and foaming.
• 5 + years of supervisory / management experience
• Demonstrated track record of project management execution.
• Proven successful leadership experience.
• Experience with manufacturing process improvement and production tools (i.e. LEAN, DMAIC)

Preferred

• Master’s in engineering or business administration
• Experience leading teams through culture change.
• Ability to communicate at various levels of the organization. 
• Hands on management style