Engineering Leader - NPI

About the role

The Engineering Leader will be based out of Whitehall, Michigan and will be located within Whitehall Casting Operations and is responsible for managing and providing technical leadership of the NPI Engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Manage and direct the New Product Introduction (NPI) initiative ensuring product development in accordance with overall project timelines, budget, and quoted standards
• Participate with our customers to advance our technical capabilities while delivering added benefits to the customers’ design
• Work in conjunction with other groups to advance our technical capabilities and reduce cost of manufacturing processes
• Function as a liaison between tooling suppliers, core supplier and casting house on NPI projects
• Collaborate and provide project support to the Program Management team
• Work in conjunction with NPI engineering, NPI leadership and Plant Sales to ensure that outgoing quotes are based on accurate cost estimations for material, scrap and labor
• Direct and participate in run at rate analysis of future products, technology advancements needed and capital requests and implementation
• Report status of NPI program to Plant Manager and BU leaders
• Manage monthly revenue targets for NPI programs
• Direct and participate in the conception, evaluation and implementation of yield/cost improvement, product improvement and production problem solving activities
• Coordinate manufacturing and scrap reduction initiatives with the HRC and Corporate Engineering technical staff
• Establish professional working relationship with Engineering Managers and Engineering Team at each casting facility and promote engineering team communication regarding product status and issues
• Responsible for creating an environment of engagement and fostering development of Engineering Staff
• Work in conjunction with the production engineering managers to align technical leaders with engineers to grow technical talent

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited institution
• 5 or more years of experience in engineering, including experience in new product launches
• 1 or more year of supervisory or management experience
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Project
• Strong knowledge of financial data
• Cumulative working knowledge of investment casting processes, customer specifications, and quality systems
• Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional product teams
• Self-driven - ability to organize people and activities to get things done
• Interpersonal savvy and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Organizational skills and excellent attention to detail
• Outstanding problem-solving skills