Senior Manager, Engineering

Leviton Manufacturing•Melville, NY

21d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Engineering is responsible for managing the mechanical engineers and designers. This position will provide strategy, vision, direction, customer focus and a sense of urgency to engineering staff through leadership, management and teamwork, ensuring creative, efficient, fast track development and engineering expertise, while ensuring personal and staff challenge and development. This position works under minimum supervision.

Requirements

Must have experience managing and leading engineering teams
Strong background in engineering techniques and application required
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures, or governmental regulations; ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, employees, and the general public
Must have the ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
Ability to work in a highly confidential work environment
The ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
Must be proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
Ability to reduce complex engineering problem into simplified form and able to educate others
Strong knowledge of patent processes, application and interpretation
Ability to use a wide application of engineering principles, theories and concepts in the field plus a working knowledge of other related disciplines in providing imaginative, thorough and practicable solutions to a wide range of problems

Nice To Haves

Masters degree preferred

Responsibilities

Assist in developing, implementing, maintaining and communicating the departmental strategy that is consistent with and supports the business unit’s strategic initiatives
Develop, implement, maintain and communicate the departmental plan that is consistent with and supports the business unit’s strategic initiatives; this includes department resource planning and development and budget preparation
Plans Technology Management projects including scope of project, definitions of system and product, strategies and tactics, risk evaluation, schedule, resource requirements, budget and return
Plans PDI interdepartmental team projects including scope of project, definitions of system and product, strategies and tactics, risk evaluation, schedule, resource requirements, budget and return
Train, mentor and facilitate staff assuring all have opportunity for personal development and advancement
Communicate corporate and business unit’s vision and strategic initiatives to staff
Participate regularly as either a team member or a team leader
Perform administrative duties such as creative, reviewing and monitoring schedules, attendance, timesheet and departmental budget
Develop and implement key process and process improvement for the greater good of the company
Coordinate activities and tasks within the team and within organizations including vendors, outside the team
Researches applications, technologies and design alternatives for products from preliminary market requirements that are often lacking details
Provides conceptual and detailed designs of a complex nature
Verifies and validates design and project objectives to customers and business unit
Responsibilities as a manager include interviewing and hiring employees; planning, assigning, and directing work, appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints and resolving problems
Directly manage 1-15 employees