Director of Engineering

Lippert

$100K — $130K *
Yoder, IN 46798In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering
  • 10+ years of relevant work experience
  • 5+ years in team leadership/management
  • Business/industry experience
  • High motivation and passion for leadership

Responsibilities

  • Lead the integration of multiple production lines across divisions
  • Evolve company's design philosophy and engineering processes
  • Mentor and develop a team of designers and engineers
  • Translate business goals into design objectives
  • Collaborate closely with product management
  • Present concepts to varied audiences throughout the development stages
  • Uphold corporate core values and promote a culture of excellence

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Collaborative work environment across diverse disciplines
  • Access to a variety of projects with significant responsibilities
  • Support for continuous self-improvement and learning
  • Involvement in shaping the company’s design philosophy
Full Job Description
Overview

Summary/Objective

The individual must be forward thinking, raise the bar and expectations of the Engineering team. This role is responsible for tying together multiple production lines across multiple divisions. They should be able to lead their team to accomplish challenging goals by effective leadership strategies. This individual must be passionate, hardworking and have a sense of urgency for all projects.

This position will be responsible for establishing these values in the team and basic engineering structure, procedure and policies in internal and external areas of engineering. As well as working with other groups to accomplish the goals of the company and meeting expectations of the customers.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  1. Help to merge multiple production lines across divisions.
  2. Help evolve the company's design philosophy and processes
  3. Lead, mentor and grow a team of designers and engineers
  4. Translate business objectives into design objectives and initiatives
  5. Work closely and collaboratively with product management.
  6. Present concepts in various stages of completion to groups large and small
  7. Conduct yourself at the highest level in accordance with the corporate core values
  8. Continue self-development and learning to share with and sharpen the team
  9. Ability to function as a bridge across disciplines, such as Design, Product, Engineering and Marketing
  10. Strong business acumen; understands the many dimensions of a growing company, their importance, and design's relationships with each
  11. Should be self-motivated and possess high level of personal initiative
  12. High level of creativity; ability to evaluate and address training needs of personnel
  13. Must maintain a high level of energy, able to effectively facilitate multiple projects
  14. Manage and oversee the Engineering teams consisting of: Designers/Drafters working with 3D SolidWorks and PLM software, as well as other technical backgrounds.

Competencies
  1. Leadership
  2. Communication proficiency/coaching
  3. Coaching
  4. Technical Capacity
  5. Ethical Conduct.
  6. Communication Proficiency
  7. Results Driven
  8. Initiative
  9. Detail oriented
  10. Excellent communication skills
  11. Strong computer software sills
  12. Dealing with complexity
  13. Production Planning
  14. Process Improvement
  15. Managing processes
  16. Decision Making
  17. Quality Management/Control


Supervisory Responsibility

This position has supervisory responsibilities upon hiring. Direct reports include product engineering managers, design engineers, and laboratory technicians.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, and stooping. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position, and the expected work hours are 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday; weekend and overnight work could also necessary.

Travel

Local and/or minimal out of state travel is expected for this position.

Required Education and Experience
  1. Bachelor's degree in engineering
  2. 10+ years of relevant work experience with 5+ years of experience in leading/managing a team of designers
  3. Business/industry experience
  4. Highly motivated and passionate leader of people

Work Authorization/Security Clearance:

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Other DutiesThe Director of Engineering may have access to confidential information regarding the company, its suppliers and customers. This position has a responsibility to prevent revealing or divulging any such information unless it is necessary to do so in the performance of their duties. Access to confidential information is on a need-to-know basis and must be authorized by management. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the team member for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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