Engineering Manager

Kimball Electronics • Indianapolis, IN

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About The Position

Kimball Medical Solutions is a Medical Device Contract Manufacturer in Indianapolis, IN and we are looking for a dynamic and influential Engineering Manager who embodies both technical mastery and strong leadership presence. This role is ideal for someone who can command a room, coach a team, and lead with a balance of humor, firmness, and empathy. The ideal candidate is a respected figure — part mentor, part enforcer — who inspires excellence and accountability. This role will report directly to the General Manager and plays an integral part of the plant’s senior leadership. You will focus on developing, implementing, and maximizing the utilization of people, processes, systems, software, and technology for continuous, measurable improvements in every area of the engineering organization. The Engineering Manager is directly responsible for the molding process engineering, assembly/NPI engineering and automation engineering. This role will have 5 direct reports and several indirect reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in engineering leadership with demonstrated level of progression in your career within a highly regulated environment.
• Excellent knowledge of lean manufacturing and six sigma with extensive experience implementing it throughout both manufacturing and engineering environments.
• Excellent knowledge of ERP, production scheduling, cycle times, takt times, touch times, yields, kanbans, and how each of these impact engineering operations.
• Mastery of Microsoft products including MS Project and project planning.
• Ability to drive root cause issues and corrective actions being implemented to resolve or provide continuous improvements.
• Ability to successfully coach, mentor and teach teams.
• Strive for 100% say do ratio.

Responsibilities

• Developing, implementing, and maximizing the utilization of people, processes, systems, software, and technology for continuous, measurable improvements in every area of the engineering organization.
• Responsible for the molding process engineering, assembly/NPI engineering and automation engineering.
• Provide coaching, mentorship and training to our engineering staff.
• Act as a liaison with other departments providing cross functional help for all things engineering.
• Implement changes or enhancements.
• Create a strategy on how you will meet the goal to deliver great engineering results while encompassing new product introductions, sustaining engineering, smart factory and continuous improvements.
• Responsible for planning, review and providing recommendations for all things engineering.

Benefits

• Your benefits start after the first day on the job with various medical, dental, vision and other great benefits for choices as well as the fantastic matching program from our 401K plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees