About the Role ...The Engineering Manager leads Stellar Industries' Engineering Department. Our manufacturing technologies range from high-temperature ceramic and metallurgic treatments, liquid resist and dry film photolithography, wet chemical etching and cleaning and electrolytic plating to various CNC controlled high-precision machining operations. The Engineering Department establishes new, maintains, and continuously improves Stellar's existing production processes. Processing uptime and yield are crucial to support manufacturing in a high-mix to mid-volume business model. The Engineering Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Department, as well as the technical and professional development of the engineering team.
What You Get to Do ...- Manage the day-to-day operation of the production engineering organization
- Responsible for maintaining the production capabilities to support yield, scrap value, and on-time delivery goals
- Establish processing time, throughput, and yield standards to support production costing
- Implement and maintain process control tools, such as SPC
- Lead the exception responses, including the engineering aspects of NCRs and CARs
- Identify and lead yield improvement and scrap reduction initiatives
- Develop and maintain product design guidelines based on process capabilities
- Lead the manufacturing introduction of new processes, production, and metrology equipment
- In cooperation with the Quality Department, establish and follow processes for engineering change management
- In cooperation with other Departments, develop capital equipment roadmap, and plan manufacturing equipment acquisition and commissioning
- Lead engineering team to excel, determine the need for, and execute staff training and talent development
- Provide regular status updates to management
What You Bring to the Position ...- Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant Engineering or Science Discipline, for example, Chemical Engineering or Materials Engineering
- Ten or more years of experience as a practicing engineer. Three or more years' experience managing and developing an engineering team.
- Track record of leading engineering teams to meet goals in a production environment
- Exceptional ability to communicate verbally and in writing with a wide variety of customers, vendors, and staff.
- Broad knowledge of ceramics and metal materials and processing, wet chemical etching and cleaning, thermal processing, photolithography, and related metrology methodologies.
- Expert knowledge in at least one of the disciplines above.
- US Citizenship or Immigration Status compatible with ITAR and EAR compliance.
What We Offer ...- Employees (and their families) are eligible to participate in the company's medical, dental, employer paid vision, and employer paid basic life insurance and disability Insurance.
- Tuition Reimbursement
- 4-Day workweek (Monday - Thursday)
- For informational purposes only, the range for annual base salary for this role is $125,000 to $165,000 US Dollar (USD), Salaried based on a variety of factors. For informational purposes only, this role is eligible to participate in the Company's Bonus Plan based on the Company's performance in the prior fiscal year.
- Employees will initially accrue annually 128 hours of paid time off.
- Employees are eligible to enroll in the Company's 401(k) plan.
