Engineering Manager
Federal Signal
- Tishomingo, MS
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Effectively make suggestions and critical decisions that affect profitability and customer satisfaction.
- Proactively develop and maintain the Product Engineering team, while identifying / implementing improvements in engineering processes.
- Manage the day-to-day and long-term activities for the Engineering department, including annual goals setting and performance reviews.
- Serve as the product engineering lead for all products shipped from the manufacturing facility.
- Review projects / activities to determine timeframe and actions needed for success, with particular emphasis on the timely release of information to production.
- Provide Engineering metrics for the Monthly Business Reviews (MBR’s).
- Review product designs and drawings for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements, and related specifications.
- Review proposed product specifications related to custom product orders to determine feasibility and manage the release-to-production process.
- Coordinate activities concerned with product technical development, scheduling, building prototypes, and resolving engineering design and test issues.
- Offer Warranty assistance to ensure rapid resolution to field issues.
- Prepare costing reports on current and new designs to ensure decisions are based on accurate data.
- Be flexible to take on special projects as needed.
- Participate in seminars, meetings, and training sessions to stay apprised of new developments in the dump truck industry.
- Confer with personnel in other departments such as sales, marketing, manufacturing, Finance, and Procurement to provide technical information and advisement as needed.
- Other duties as assigned
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Management / Supervisor experience
- Experience with ERP / BOM Systems
- Experience in the truck equipment industry is preferred
- Proficient in SolidWorks
- Basic knowledge of hydraulic and electrical systems is a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Must be able to maintain, be responsible for, and keep current on scheduled workload
- Ability to see situations from a variety of viewpoints (customer, employee, management, etc.)
- Occasional travel, valid Driver’s License with a good driving record.
- Ability to work with all levels of the organization
- Must be a team player with high integrity and strong work ethics to meet company goals.