Engineering Leader

P.J. Wallbank Springs•Port Huron, MI

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role offers an opportunity to lead product, process, tooling, equipment, and controls engineering. You will solve complex problems, establish processes, build new manufacturing capabilities, and coach early-career engineers. The position involves influencing strategy and understanding the entire manufacturing system. The company is focused on building great organizations by developing exceptional people through meaningful work, high standards, strong coaching, and problem-solving opportunities. They believe manufacturing should be a force for good, that businesses have a responsibility to create environments for growth, and that great businesses are built by developing great people. Engineering is seen as a driver of competitive advantage, and leadership is viewed as stewardship. Growth is achieved through ownership, and results are valued alongside integrity, humility, continuous learning, and care for others. This role is for someone looking to become an exceptional engineering leader and contribute to an organization that creates meaningful impact through manufacturing.

Requirements

A strong mechanical engineering foundation and sound engineering judgment.
Experience leading meaningful technical projects or teams.
The ability to balance technical performance, manufacturability, cost, and business objectives.
Experience improving products, manufacturing systems, or engineering processes.
Comfort making decisions with incomplete information and adjusting quickly as new information becomes available.
Strong communication and collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, quality, suppliers, customers, and commercial teams.
A player-coach mindset: willing to be hands-on when needed, but ultimately focused on building capability in others.

Nice To Haves

Experience with automotive manufacturing, APQP, PPAP, SolidWorks, GD&T, DFMEA, DVP&R, or similar engineering disciplines.

Responsibilities

Build an engineering organization that creates lasting competitive advantage.
Develop engineers to solve bigger problems, think more critically, and take greater ownership.
Create an environment of high standards, coaching, accountability, and continuous learning within engineering.
Shape the next generation of engineering and manufacturing leaders.
Improve how engineering prioritizes work, makes decisions, executes projects, launches products, and solves problems.
Create systems for engineering to execute with greater speed, consistency, and impact.
Lead the development of manufacturing capabilities that provide a competitive advantage.
Improve existing production systems, develop new manufacturing technologies, or expand into new products/markets.
Identify growth opportunities for the business and develop the necessary capabilities.
Translate technical insight into long-term competitive advantage.
Lead cross-functional initiatives to strengthen the production system and improve business performance.
Expand technical understanding and leadership capability to effectively lead product, process, tooling, equipment, and controls engineering.
Earn the trust of engineers, operators, and business leaders.
Create a higher-performing engineering team.
Coach and develop early-career engineers.
Lead meaningful manufacturing improvements that strengthen quality, capacity, cost, or technical differentiation.
Lead cross-functional business initiatives that produce measurable business results.
Expand personal capability through increasing responsibility and exposure to new technical and business challenges.