Sr. Manager, Mechanical Engineering

Position Summary

The Sr. Manager, Mechanical Engineering manages new product development and sustaining activities in their responsible areas in support of the strategic vision. This role leads a team of engineers and designers, focusing on deliverables though the phase gate process and manages sustaining support activities to solve production issues. They are responsible for transforming the department’s initiatives into tactical plans to support corporate research and product development goals.

Measures of Success

• Improve the efficiency of mechanical development, through successfully building, mentoring, and managing their mechanical engineering team
• Accurately develop and manage annual department and new product development (NPD) budgets
• Accurately develop, maintain, and enforce department policies and procedures
• Targets met for NPD Index (NPD Products/Total Products sold) monthly
• Attain annual cost savings goals.
• Maintain ISO documents with zero findings in ISO audits

Responsibilities

• Builds and directs a successful engineering team responsible for new product development (NPD) and sustaining support engineering activities for residential products
• Follows and implements all engineering support procedures and best practices
• Promote team cohesion and collaboration with other departments such as Product Management, Sales and Technical Services
• Sets clear and achievable goals for the residential engineering team
• Works with the SVP of Product Engineering and Legal in the managing of intellectual property, including new patent filing and legacy patent administration
• Prepares and monitors departmental budget, including capital, expenses and engineering time. Supports Operations, Quality, Supply Chain and other internal departments with engineering-related production and supplier issues.
• Knows and drives the NPD phase gate process
• Determines resource allocations for Phases 1 and 2 NPD projects
• Ensures accurate project schedule building for Phases 3 through 5 NPD projects
• Ensures on-time and on-budget completion of projects. Ensures quality engineering deliverables and documentation are achieved, including but not limited to design reviews, design failure mode and effect analysis (DFMEA), engineering change orders (ECOs), drawings, calculations,