Engineering Manager-2

We offer:

   Career Development
•    Competitive Compensation and Benefits
•    Pay Transparency 
•    Global Opportunities
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Tasks and Qualifications:

What You Will do in This Role:

·        Ability to partner with remote team members to track progress, success, and personal and project performance gaps.

·        Ability to identify, align and manage skills and development target goals.

·        Ensure compliance with local and supported authorities for visa management.

·        Maintain a schedule for individual contributors for the direct team, while coordinating with a large team to ensure the level-loading of team members.

·        Managing scope, budget, and schedules per SoW request.

·        Build cross-functional partnerships with regional managers to maintain consistency and standards.

·        Project support and initiative to push and support high-priority demands; including technical support and training as needed.

·        Understand the scope of technical responsibility to support team growth and focus.

·        Maintain team tools, including but not limited to, laptops, PPE, etc.

Project Delivery:

·        Continuous monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of team status.

·        Assigns the appropriate technical resources to projects.

·        Ensuring adherence to standard work and quality processes.

·        MTY - Participate in cross-functional technical reviews to ensure alignment of technical specifications and customer requirements.

·        MTY - Participates in design review with sales and solution development for a project quotation.

·        MTY - Reviews solutions development quotes for technical and costing accuracy.

·        Implements effective engineering methods and provides technical guidance and acts as a resource for engineers.

·        Workload balancing and forecasts.

·        Working cross-functionally with other disciplines (all Project Execution disc).

·        Skills gap assessment - looking across multiple projects (could also be Director) - looking across a program.

·        Responsible for approving project schedules and holding teams accountable, reviewing, reject & offer solutions.

·        Working with internal partners to proactively clear potential project delivery roadblocks.

·        Issue resolution or conflict resolution.

·        Ensuring the project is going through quality gates/process adherence.

·        Maintain safety & compliance standards and communication.

·        Provide resource support and prioritize resources with One Dematic in mind, not at the expense of other projects.

Financial Accountability:

·        Managing Team and Individual expenses.

·        Awareness of the cost impact of direct vs indirect labor.

·        Forecasting workload and managing indirect hours.

·        Awareness of the relationship between Statements of Work and inputted forecasts (YLF).

People Leadership:

·        Responsible to ensure that engineers are technically trained to meet project requirements.

·        Effectively recruit, onboard, and integrate new hires into the team.

·        Talent development - coaching/mentoring.

·        Train and/or align training for a rotational onboarding need at several skill levels and key functions.

·        Supervisory responsibilities include monitoring the performance of your direct engineering team.

·        These responsibilities include making decisions on staffing needs; disciplinary actions; development and evaluation of work objectives and their effectiveness; and realigning projects and associate assignments as necessary.

·        Provide effective coaching and technical guidance, and communicate as necessary with all levels of management, customers, and subcontractors on the program team

Strategic and Tactical Initiatives/Projects: - Track status, steering committee, report out status.

What We’re Looking For:

·        Required: Bachelor's Degree (Electrical, Mechanical, Controls).

·        Advanced degree a plus

Knowledge and Experience:

·        Minimum of 3-5 years of successful experience in a directly related field. Demonstrated leadership capabilities in current role. Previous mgt experience is not required.

·        Advocates and recommends changes in processes and/or procedures to improve processes, projects, and teams.

·        Anticipates trends, and problems and enthusiastically searches for resolutions.

·        Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.

Skills:

·        Excellent leadership, teamwork, influencing, mentoring, coaching, and interpersonal skills.

·        Excellent analytical, organization, and time management skills.

·        Effective communication skills include demonstrated stand-up presentation skills, group facilitation, and effectively interacting with customers.

·        Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively in a team-based organization and with employees of all levels and backgrounds across all functions.

·        PC skills with demonstrated knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project. Ability to work individually and under minimal supervision to include a mixture of remote and office environments leading a distributed workforce.

·        Travel up to 50% to the customer site, other Dematic offices, or identified locations for meetings, training, and business needs.