What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Manager position at FPC of Savannah?
Great opportunity for a, Engineering Manager to work for a global manufacturing leader located in Phoenix, AZ.
Our client is a global MTO systems & infrastructure manufacturer looking for an Engineering Manager with full responsibility for capex, design and manufacturing engineering controls including safety, quality, manufacturing performance.
Responsibilities
Site & Operational Leadership Relationships
- Monitor day-to-day activities operations, ensuring safe, efficient, and reliable production aligned with customer commitments.
- Maintain accountability for manufacturing output, schedule adherence, capacity planning, and operational execution.
- Serve as the senior leader on site, setting expectations for performance, behavior, and results.
- Driving financial and operational improvement at a minimum of 10% year over year.
Principle accountability/Staffing
- Drive a team of up to 10 supporting the USA sites including EU as required.
- Create smart goals with near term and strategic goals to create an environment of step function improvements in the organization.
- Support annual operating budgets, forecasts, and cost‑control initiatives.
- Deliver productivity improvements and Lean‑driven cost reductions.
- Lead annual CAPEX planning and execution.
- Drive Statistical process control utilization for processes to determine end result performance. Educate the customer of internal performance against longevity of finished goods performance.
Workforce & Engagement
- Build a high‑performance engineering team that designs and produces with manufacturability the primary goal.
- Lead customers to more standard approaches to provide the same level of performance.
- Partner with HR and Union leadership on staffing and labor relations.
- Drive engagement, communication, and accountability with all direct reports.
- Lead by example and use a coaching mentoring approach to improve overall performance.
Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- Partner with manufacturing, supply chain, safety, and quality to improve manufacturability. Include organizations outside of exhaust bring in new ideas and approaches.
- Ensure designs support labor and material efficiency, while looking to strategically standardize or template processes
- Working gross factory standardization globally.
Qualifications
- 5-10 years engineering leadership in design/manufacturing experience in multifunctional disciplines
- Proven success in process control and SPC, Statistical process control by means of DOE, Design of Experiments, and data analysis tools.
- Strong establishment of Standards in an MOT, Make to Order environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related degree
- US Citizen or Green Card Holder