The Engineering Manager leads all product engineering staff and plans, monitors, and controls all product engineering activities, including those activities related to the development of new and the optimization and support of existing products. The goal of this position is to develop and deliver new, quality products to the market with speed and to optimize the cost-effectiveness, quality, and market relevance of existing products.
Roles & Responsibilities - Identifies and ensures the adoption, documentation and consistent employment of industry-leading engineering practices for new product development, product optimization and product life-cycle support.
- Compiles and maintains documentation of engineering standards and best practices.
- Develops and monitors metrics to identify the performance of the group and its processes, and employs corrective actions as required.
- Assesses risk and implements appropriate risk mitigation and verification strategies for all product development activities. Ensures that resources are available with appropriate skills and training to meet the needs of the product development plan and fulfill the operational responsibilities of the department.
- Creates project teams and monitors and controls project activities to ensure compliance with time, cost and quality objectives.
- Supervises technicians, technologists and other engineers and reviews and approves designs, calculations and cost estimates.
- Acts as the corporate Chief Operating Officer and Responsible Member for the Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) permit to practice engineering for all engineering activities in the province of Alberta.
- Develops and maintains the corporate intellectual property portfolio and strategy.
- Leads the Senior Engineering Team and is therefore responsible for the following practices:
- Documentation of product intent and verification of conformance to customer requirements
- Translation of customer needs and value opportunities into tangible concept features and products
- Verification of product fitness-for- purpose, cost-effectiveness, compliance and risk mitigation
- Creation and maintenance of customer product documentation
- Provision of product engineering support to TYCROP sales activities
- Provision of appropriate instruction to manufacturing for efficient steady-state production
- Provision of engineering support to any relevant stakeholder throughout the product lifecycle
Education & Experience- Bachelor's degree in relevant engineering discipline
Specific Skills- Fluent technical communication
- Use of standard office software
- Mechanical engineering design
- Assessment of appropriate design for manufacture
- Assessment of appropriate structural integrity, which may require the application of classical structural engineering calculation or finite element analysis.
- Design, conduct and documentation of scientific experiments and prototyping activities.
- Project management.
- Resource management.
Benefits- Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage, including FSA/HAS
- Company - Paid Life Insurance and Long - Term Disability
- 401K
- Employee Referral Program
- Paid Holidays and PTO
- Training
- Opportunities for Growth
- And more!
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
