Senior Manager-Electronics Hardware

Job Description

As an S&C Electric team member, you’ll work on projects that have real-world impact. You’ll help transform the grid for resilient and reliable power worldwide. S&C has more than a 100-year history of innovation and has been 100% employee-owned since 2012. We continue this legacy as a trusted, forward-thinking leader in the electrical industry. You will advance a safer, more reliable, and more resilient electrical grid. Our products help the grid adapt to severe weather and transition to clean energy. We’re big enough to be a respected industry leader but small enough for you to impact our company directly. Our commitment gives you opportunities to impact on and off the job positively.

Join S&C to make an impact on tomorrow’s energy challenges and become an employee-owner!

Hours

• 8:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri) Hybrid
  
  

Compensation

At S&C, we are dedicated to providing competitive and equitable compensation for all our team members, and we are committed to transparency in our pay practices. The estimated annual base salary range for this position is $166,100 - $220,140.80. Individual pay within this salary range is determined by several compensable factors, including performance, knowledge, job-related skills and experience, and relevant education or training. This role is also eligible for S&C’s annual incentive plan (AIP), subject to eligibility criteria.

Join Our Team as a Senior Manager-Electronics Hardware!

The Senior Manager – Electronics Hardware will lead an engineering team responsible for developing and supporting electronic controls and hardware products. This role focuses on translating organizational strategies into actionable plans, ensuring product quality, supporting customer needs, and driving team performance. The Senior Manager partners with the Director – Electronics Hardware and other senior leaders to execute departmental goals while fostering innovation and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership & People Management: Balance new product development project activities with product-sustaining engineering operations of the product engineering team, including scheduling work, tracking progress, and ensuring timely delivery of projects. Manage departmental administrative team member processes, including but not limited to recruitment, induction, vacation management, performance reviews, performance improvement plans, and workforce/succession planning.
• Strategic Execution: Translate departmental strategies into operational goals for product engineering and development teams. Align team objectives with organizational priorities in customer support, product quality, and cost efficiency. Contribute input to long-term strategy discussions led by Directors.
• Product Engineering Oversight: Oversee engineering support for assigned product lines, ensuring reliability, manufacturability, and customer satisfaction. Monitor product lifecycle performance and implement improvements based on customer feedback.
• Development Engineering: Staff and manage new product development projects, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards. Encourage innovation and process improvements within engineering teams.
• Technical Expertise: Serve as a subject matter expert for assigned products, representing products in customer meetings and internal stakeholder discussions.
• Operational Planning & Budget: Develop short- to mid-term operational plans for assigned teams. Monitor team-level budgets and resource allocation, providing input on departmental investment decisions.
• Goal Setting: Set and manage short-term operational goals for the Product Engineering team, ensuring alignment with tactical plans set by senior leaders.
• Continuous Product Improvement: Drive initiatives to reduce costs, simplify designs, and implement product recommendations that align with business strategy. Help drive product improvements by supporting cost reduction, design simplification, and other short-term initiatives to improve Value Streams.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with quality assurance and production operations to ensure product designs meet quality and manufacturing standards. Offer technical support and guidance to engineers on smaller projects, assisting them in meeting engineering and operational goals.
• Continuous Learning: Promote a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and collaboration, promoting cross-functional interactions and knowledge sharing among team members. Drive continuous improvement initiatives for process improvements, gathering feedback, analyzing data, and implementing enhancements to optimize performance and efficiency.
• Compliance: Understand and comply with all applicable Company policies and rules
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance.
• Attend in-person or virtual meetings as requested or required.
• Communicate effectively and respectfully with others.
• Other responsibilities as assigned
  
  

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics, or a related engineering field.
• 8-10 years of experience managing engineers and technicians, with at least 3-5 years in electronics product development leadership.
• Strong knowledge of product lifecycles, manufacturing processes, and industry trends in electrical manufacturing.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams & other managers, manage performance, and deliver results.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to use data to drive decisions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for working with diverse stakeholders.
• Financial acumen to monitor team-level budgets effectively.
• Ability to travel as needed.
  
  

Preferred

• Master’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, or related engineering field.
• Expertise in problem-solving methodologies such as 4SPS, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Leadership experience.
  
  

S&C Electric is committed to equal-opportunity employment. All employees and applicants will be considered without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation to complete the application, please email us at TAsupport@sandc.com .

No fixed deadline

About Us

In 1909, S&C Electric Company transformed the delivery of safe, reliable electricity with the invention of the Liquid Power Fuse. Today, as the world faces extreme weather events and the demand for electricity grows, S&C continues to innovate and advance the electrical grid, ensuring reliable and resilient power for homes, communities, and critical infrastructure around the world.

With a diverse, global workforce and core values around integrity, safety, and quality, S&C is a trusted industry leader and top workplace that offers meaningful careers to more than 3,500 team members. As a people-first organization, S&C is committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative workplace where team members advance their careers through robust talent-development programs and involved leadership.

S&C’s deeply rooted belief diversity fosters greater creativity, innovation, and success guides the company to advance and sustain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace culture.

S&C provides a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that includes the following (eligibility requirements apply):

• Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical & Prescription, Dental, Vision, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, , Health Savings Account (HSA), Group Life Insurance, optional Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance, Wellbeing Resources including Employee Assistance Program and Family Forming Benefits (i.e., Adoption and Fertility support)
• Leave Benefits: Vacation Time, Sick Time, Paid Holidays and Company Shutdown days, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves, Paid Parental Time and Military Leave
  
  

Retirement Benefits: 401(k) Retirement Savings and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (KSOP) offering traditional and Roth 401(k) options and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) component; KSOP participants can receive annual ESOP company contributions of over 11% of eligible earnings (3% Core, up to 3.5% Match, Variable Periodic).

About The Team

In (Production Operations/QA) we are responsible for maintaining S&C's longstanding reputation for quality products. While constantly integrating the latest technology into S&C's processes and adhering to the highest standards of quality, our work solidifies the trust our customers have in S&C that our equipment will be integral to solving tomorrow's energy challenges. We strive for continuous improvement in everything we do, knowing that our work impacts our customers, out team members, and our world.