Engineering Manager

Stryten Energy • Manchester, IA

173d

About The Position

The Engineering Manager is responsible for the development, support, and improvement of the manufacturing processes for the plant. Will lead a team of Process and Continuous improvement engineers. About the work location: Manchester is a city in Delaware County, Iowa, United States, located along the Highway 20 corridor between Dyersville and Independence. Delaware County is centrally located just 45 minutes from some of Iowa's biggest hubs (Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, and Dubuque) - but you don't need to go far to find excitement. Delaware County is home to several golf courses, parks, museums, retail shops, a movie theatre, festivals and fairs, water sport recreational areas, and evening entertainment. Delaware County offers successful academics programs in three community school districts and a critical access hospital to provide healthcare close to home.

Requirements

• 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.
• Team building and teamwork activities intra and interdepartmental.
• Experience in work orders.
• Experience setting and managing annual budget.
• Preparation of capital requests.
• Knowledge related to legal regulations and contractual relationships.

Nice To Haves

• Proven knowledge and demonstrated skills in Project Management.
• General technical knowledge in utilities, electronics, mechanical, chemical, pneumatic, hydraulics, installations designs.
• General knowledge of Allen Bradley PLC software preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze data and metrics.
• Skills in planning, organizing and priority setting.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Fully capable of communicating, negotiating, making presentations and reporting in English.

Responsibilities

• Capital Expense planning and budgeting.
• Realization and follow up of approved projects.
• Directs and accountable for all lean and continuous improvement activities.
• Provide technical support to other departments.
• Coordinate projects with other departments.
• Provide training and guidance based on the requirements of each project.
• Coach and develop each member of the engineering team.
• Calculate the capacity of the factory according to the production needs.
• Improve the reliability efforts of the Engineering department.
• Implement key reliability metrics such as Mean Time Between Failure.
• Drive a systematic approach towards reliability efforts that will decrease down time and increase production throughput.
• Train managers on the use of these metrics.
• Act as the Site Management of Change coordinator and ESG facilitator.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Manager
• Industry: Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees