Engineering Manager

Terrica Corporation • Granbury, TX

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About The Position

The Engineering Manager leads all product engineering staff and plans, monitors, and controls product engineering activities. These include developing new products and optimizing and supporting existing products. The position aims to deliver quality new products to market quickly and improve the cost-effectiveness, quality, and market relevance of existing products.

The role leads the Senior Engineering Team and oversees product engineering practices throughout the product lifecycle, including documenting product intent, verifying conformance to customer requirements, translating customer needs into product concepts, and verifying product fitness for purpose, cost-effectiveness, compliance, and risk mitigation. The Engineering Manager also maintains customer product documentation, supports sales and manufacturing, and provides engineering support to relevant stakeholders.

The position supervises technicians, technologists, and other engineers; reviews and approves designs, calculations, and cost estimates; and acts as the corporate Chief Operating Officer and Responsible Member for the company’s APEGA permit to practice engineering for Alberta activities. It also develops and maintains the corporate intellectual property portfolio and strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
• Fluent technical communication.
• Proficiency with standard office software.
• Mechanical engineering design skills.
• Ability to assess appropriate design for manufacture.
• Ability to assess structural integrity, potentially using classical structural engineering calculations or finite element analysis.
• Ability to design, conduct, and document scientific experiments and prototyping activities.
• Project management skills.
• Resource management skills.
• At least 10 years of experience as stated in the company description.

Responsibilities

• Identify, document, and ensure consistent adoption of industry-leading engineering practices for product development, optimization, and lifecycle support.
• Compile and maintain engineering standards and best-practice documentation.
• Develop and monitor group and process performance metrics and take corrective action as needed.
• Assess risk and implement risk mitigation and verification strategies for product development activities.
• Ensure appropriate resources, skills, and training are available to meet product development plans and departmental operational responsibilities.
• Create project teams and monitor and control project activities to meet time, cost, and quality objectives.
• Supervise technicians, technologists, and engineers, and review and approve designs, calculations, and cost estimates.
• Act as the corporate Chief Operating Officer and Responsible Member for the APEGA permit to practice engineering for Alberta engineering activities.
• Develop and maintain the corporate intellectual property portfolio and strategy.
• Lead the Senior Engineering Team and ensure documentation of product intent and verification of conformance to customer requirements.
• Translate customer needs and value opportunities into product concepts and features.
• Verify product fitness for purpose, cost-effectiveness, compliance, and risk mitigation.
• Create and maintain customer product documentation.
• Provide product engineering support to sales activities.
• Provide manufacturing with appropriate instruction for efficient steady-state production.
• Provide engineering support to relevant stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, including FSA/HSA.
• Company-paid life insurance and long-term disability.
• 401(k).
• Employee referral program.
• Paid holidays and PTO.
• Training opportunities for growth.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager