Engineering Manager

Overview

The Engineering Manager is responsible for planning, designing, and overseeing projects, as well as managing finances and supervising the on-sight engineering team. The Engineering Manager is responsible for defining, maintaining, and supporting the battery manufacturing processes. This individual will lead process innovation and process enhancements to assure high quality and cost-effective products. The Engineering Manager will coordinate the integration of material processing equipment to ensure a safe and cost-effective manufacturing process. Supervise daily routines within the process engineering group; lead and assign individuals within scope of defined programs or projects. Support in the development of department budgets and supervisory control over expenditures. Lead and develop staff.

 

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Responsibilities

• Provides direction regarding company policies and enforces safety policies and practices.
• Maintain a zero-injury mindset.
• Determine the need for training and talent development of the engineering team.
• Provide clear and concise instructions to engineering team members.
• Check the engineering team’s work for technical accuracy and detail.
• Manage and direct all plant engineering activities, cost analysis, coordinate and evaluate all quotation activity.
• Lead team to create scope of work for all projects.
• Collaborate with production to improve throughput, ergonomics, and provide a safe environment for the team members to work.
• Establish a collaborative team to work cohesively to complete any task.
• Ensure the engineering team follows specified process and program management system to ensure projects are completed on time and on budget.
• Work with vendors and contractors to ensure projects are completed successfully and timelines are met.
• Responsible for managing all engineering changes and successful implementation, from quote to PPAP.
• Maintain a working knowledge of all engineering projects of the engineering team.
• Evaluates battery manufacturing processes for product performance, work force utilization, space requirements, and layout of equipment and workspace for maximum productivity.
• Collaborate with plant personnel to implement operating procedures and resolve system malfunctions.
• Collaborate with corporate engineering to determine product specifications to match with equipment, materials, or parts capabilities to meet product performance expectations.
• Work with corporate engineering individuals and teams to ensure that the plant is getting the best possible engineering support.
• Recommend revisions to methods of operation or material handling, alterations in equipment layout, or other process changes to improve safety, quality, delivery, and/or cost performance.
• Oversees capital project installation/implementation to ensure machines and equipment are installed and functioning according to specifications.
• Establish work measurement programs and analyze work samples to develop standards for labor utilization.
• Project planning for improvement opportunities and support kaizens to produce positive business results.
• Comply with current Quality Systems requirements.
• Follow Lean manufacturing concepts.
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience managing engineering teams.
• Understanding of manufacturing cost drivers and knowledge of continuous cost improvement processes
• Investigations and benchmarking activities with all the departments in order to know other standards and technologies and propose improvements based on this. Work with suppliers on equipment issues.
• Team building and teamwork activities intra and interdepartmental to share, clarify and track targets and results. Mentoring efforts have positive affect on plants overall performance. Experience in work orders.
• Experience setting and managing annual budget. Spend approval for engineering contracts with machinery and installations suppliers, look for improved prices for machinery, spare parts, etc. Cost estimating.
• Preparation of capital requests. Recognition and communication of both benefits and risks. Cash out preparation and managing.
• Knowledge related to legal regulations and contractual relationships which can affect performance and applications in the workplace.

Skills:

• Proven knowledge and demonstrated skills in Project Management, use of a structured approach to project leadership, project status management and oversight. Plan and communicate the scope of projects. Lead collaborators’ team. View priorities and creatively apply different types of resources to achieve the agreed objectives. Tracking of plans, results and new improvement proposals to the team and top management. Ability to manage multiple projects / priorities simultaneously.
• General technical knowledge in utilities, electronics, mechanical, chemical, pneumatic, hydraulics, installations designs, etc. General knowledge of Allen Bradley PLC software preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze data and metrics to create understanding, make sound decision making, problem solve and manage performance and progress over time. Experience in how to analyze the failed process.
• Skills in planning, organizing and priority setting, including resource allocation and management.
• Team building and teamwork activities intra and interdepartmental, and with other factories and units in the company (and if possible with other factories to share, clarify and track targets and results).
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Fully capable of communicating, negotiating, making presentations and reporting in English, at a Business and technical English level and cope successfully in an environment exclusive of English-speaking.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee

encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the individual is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.
• Individual is regularly exposed to high, precarious places, toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of electrical shock. Noise level is minimal to loud.
• Surroundings clean to dirty. Environment could be loud and noisy.
• Appropriate PPE as required by Stryten and customer.

Travel / Other Requirements:

• Plant environment.
• Some travel may be required.

EEO Statement

Stryten Energy is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.

About Statement

Stryten Energy is a leading battery manufacturer and energy storage company providing one of the industry’s most comprehensive portfolios of battery technologies and energy storage solutions. The company designs, manufactures and distributes advanced lead, lithium and vanadium redox flow batteries for automotive, commercial vehicle, golf cart, material handling, specialty motive, aerial work platforms, floor care, data center, telecommunications, utility, industrial, military and government applications. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, Stryten Energy operates 15 manufacturing and component facilities across the United States, with additional manufacturing operations in Mexico and China and commercial offices throughout Europe and Asia. The company’s portfolio includes the Stryten Energy, C&D Technologies and Trojan Battery product brands, serving customers worldwide with reliable energy storage solutions for critical infrastructure, mobility and national security applications. Learn more at www.stryten.com.