Vision Statement:Innovating the solutions that power the world’s best entertaining and food service experiences.

Mission Statement:Perlick is a 5th generation family business that serves as an essential partner in the commercial foodservice and residential appliance industries. We put our customers first in everything we do by engaging a team of world class associates to develop, produce, and deliver premium products and customer experiences that provide a lifetime of exceptional value.

Perlick Values: Lead By Serving – others before self, Grow by Innovation – solutions that exceed our customers’ expectations, Continuous Improvement – strive to get better every day, Live the Legacy – maintain our positive reputations with the future in mind

SUMMARY:

The Director of Engineering is responsible for planning and directing the activities of the Product Engineering, Corporate Compliance, and Sales Engineering teams including Engineering Systems and Standards to achieve company goals. The Director of Engineering develops, adheres to, and continuously improves engineering procedures with input of team members, peers, and the executive leadership team. The role will lead the development and implementation of transformation initiatives within the team, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities – ensuring integration with broader strategy. The role works across internal functions to deliver change by leveraging engineering personnel, data, business processes, and business systems to achieve required business outcomes. Strengthens the capability of the team and provides technical, project and business leadership expertise. Maintains a strong, capable team by driving talent attraction, employee development and innovative employee retention programs with assigned team. Forecasts the need to develop or acquire new engineering talent based on upcoming company initiatives.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Identifies opportunities, deviations, trends, and problems and utilizes expertise to develop and implement staffing, product, and business systems improvements to better serve our customers.
2. Leads the formulation and implementation of Engineering department goals, objectives, and plans, ensuring attainment or course correction if needed.
3. Develops and administers project control systems, including Stage Gate and Program Management processes, for high visibility proposed and approved Engineering projects, ensuring that Engineering resources are allocated, focused, efficiently utilized, and that schedule commitments are met.
4. Works with Product Management and Operations to develop and maintain a long-term product roadmap which forecasts new products, value engineering, compliance, and product maintenance projects across Perlick’s Residential and Commercial businesses.
5. Supports customer facing activities as needed, ensuring lead-times are met for custom modifications, bar layouts, quote requests, and other sales engineering ticket requests.
6. Supports a competitor monitoring and evaluation system to ensure detailed knowledge of their strategic direction and innovation.
7. Ensures Perlick’s Intellectual property procedures are followed by engineering staff to provide competitive advantage in the market. Maintains awareness of relevant intellectual properties and for the specific purpose of avoidance of patent infringement.
8. Develops budgetary requests for people, project expenses, and capital assets to consolidate them into an overall Engineering budget. Ensure expense management policies and procedures are in place to deliver monthly and annual departmental expenditures within approved budgets.
9. Directs activities in Engineering or Enterprise projects as necessary and ensures open communications between various functions.
10. Makes positive change and continuous improvement happen every day.
11. Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering required; Master of Engineering or MBA preferred.
• Minimum five (5) years of leadership experience at the Manager level or above.
• Demonstrated ability to train and develop people to enable them to be highly successful in their current roles and progress to reach career goals.
• Demonstrated ability to work across business functions to identify, help prioritize, and deliver on new technology and product development goals.
• Highly experienced with stage/gate planning, and development processes.
• Experience with IoT, data management, integrated business systems is highly preferred.
• Demonstrated history of holding self, internal/external teams accountable to deliver projects on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Recognized technical expertise, combined with keen business acumen.
• Technical leadership in manufacturing businesses that produces appliances, food service equipment, or custom products.
• Able to effectively communicate in both written and verbal forms.
• Operates in a way that never compromises ethics and integrity of Perlick. Proven ability to work within a family company culture.
• United States authorization to work.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Exhibits core cultural behaviors that reflect Perlick’s values to support our mission and vision.
• Strategic Mindset: Sees ahead to future possibilities and translates them into breakthrough strategies. Is a strong big-picture thinker; makes frequent, clear references to the organization’s vision and strategy and the efforts required to drive them forward. Effectively integrates long-term opportunities and challenges with day-to-day activities.
• Decision Quality: Holds others accountable for making sound decisions that comply with policies and standards. Willing to take calculated risks and possesses the self-confidence and the ability to work with all levels of organization to accomplish our goals. Strikes the right balance between accepting workable solutions and pushing for better alternatives. Synthesizes information, experience, and various inputs to determine the best course of action.
• Drives Engagement: Empowers others with meaningful decision making and ownership. Ensures all team members are motivated to work toward common goals. Celebrates the team’s successes along the way. Provides praise, recognition, and rewards for strong performance. Plays an active role in creating relationships and a team working environment that fosters camaraderie, engagement, commitment, communication, and accountability to each other and accomplish great things.
• Builds Effective Teams: Builds strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals. Mentors others on how to build effective teams; takes actions to correct dysfunctional teams. Ensures that the team has the right mix of skills; leverages individual strengths effectively.
• Cultivates Innovation: Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. Inspires people to develop breakthrough solutions; invests and takes risks to lead cutting-edge innovations. Establishes systems that encourage and reward partnering with others to innovate, ensuring that varied perspectives are included.
• Being Resilient: Remains objective and calm when faced with adversity. Grows from hardships and difficult experiences. Manages crises and volatile situations effectively. Helps others recover momentum and confidence after failures or setbacks.
• Self-Development: Aligns own development plans with the goals and values of the organization. Continuously improves own leadership capabilities. Models personal development by continuously expanding own knowledge and skills. Pursues challenging assignments and career opportunities that stretch and build own capabilities.

PHYSICAL/SENSORY DEMANDS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Daily work may include sitting, bending, standing, crouching, reaching, and some lifting (up to 25 lbs.).

Perlick is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Perlick does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, religion, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status.

Sponsorhship and/or relocation are not available for this position. 

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