
Mechanical Engineering Manager - Amazon
- Grand Rapids, MI
- $104,250-152,900 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Career Development
- Competitive Compensation and Benefits
- Pay Transparency
- Global Opportunities
- Own project performance of direct engineering team
- Provide prompt coaching and guidance to help ensure project successes
- Ensure project targets are met for quality, on-time delivery, and cost. Anticipate issues and address appropriately where appropriate
- Provide regular reporting of project performance and status to management and peers
- Maintain accurate monthly forecasting across assigned projects
- Proactively manage direct project budgets and indirect department budgets
- Provide input to annual budget regarding staffing, indirect spending,…etc.
- Attend project turnovers and appropriately assess projects for technical risks, cost risks, and schedule risks prior to execution team deployment
- Make educated project staffing choices based on team skills, program priorities, and customer visibility
- Maintain schedules for individual contributors and coordinate level-loading of team members
- Participate in pre-sale technical reviews with Sales and Solution Development teams
- Use opportunity to reduce project risks and develop close awareness of customer expectations and demands
- Successfully define work flows, jobs, and reporting relationships to obtain optimum effectiveness
- Analyzes and understands impact of decisions on business operations
- Appraise and recommend changes in methods or procedures.
- Drive capacity planning through continual pipeline and team bandwidth assessments
- Effectively recruit, onboard, and integrate new hires into the team
- Develop a system for continuous team development through coaching and mentoring, gap assessment and training, and team and individual empowerment
- Develop project execution best practices and implement throughout team
- Create and maintain a culture of collaboration within team
- Set high expectations and encourage team members to be role-models internally throughout Dematic and externally with the customer
- Maintain safety and compliance standards
- Provide approachable and open lines of communication to all team members
- Support talent development through completion of formal yearly OCTR (Organization Capability and Talent Review) and Goal Setting processes
- Engage in regular communications with team members via mechanisms such as: 1-1 meetings, real-time learning/coaching opportunities, project team discussions, peer group meetings, and people feedback
- Work with team and peers to gauge team sentiment, attitude, and perceptions
- Take actions where needed and provide input and recommendations to senior leadership to address opportunities for
- Build cross-location and cross-department partnerships to develop consistent standards for program growth and stability
- Develop team engagement and team visibility throughout Dematic and within key customers
- Create and maintain a feedback loop (lessons learned, project variances…etc.) between project execution and solution development teams to continually respond to customer expectations, grow a better working environment for the team, and increase Dematic’s profitability
- Drive continuous improvement and lean initiatives within the Project Engineering group
- Empower team to promote and own a culture of continuous improvement
- Develop team and individual goals that align with strategic plan and achieving larger group goals
- Increase awareness of team’s role and responsibility in achieving strategic goals
- Recommend changes and improvements where appropriate
- BS in Mechanical Engineering or related field of engineering
- At least (6) years of material handling industry or related experience
- Engineering management and/or team leadership experience preferred
- Mechanical equipment operation or ability to learn to maintain and repair material handling systems
- Ability to work individually and under minimal supervision in remote, office, and customer site environments
- Knowledge of CAD design software including AutoCAD
- Experience with Dematic RCD strongly preferred
- Experience with Dematic’s CET Designer Software (Maestro) strongly preferred
- Ability to solve complex design issues and implement effective and cost-efficient solutions
- Proven communications skills, flexibility, and willingness to work as part of a team of solution-oriented professionals
- Demonstrated stand-up presentation skills, group facilitation, and ability to effectively interact with customers
- Excellent leadership, teamwork, influencing, mentoring, and interpersonal skills
- Excellent organization, analytical, reasoning, and problem-solving skills
- Maintaining accurate and detailed records
- Understanding and following directions
- Working under pressure, meeting inflexible deadlines, and maintaining composure
- Travels up to 25% to different customer or Dematic locations
- Capable of providing technical assistance to support staff and other employees
- Positively represent the organization as an internal contact and a key customer-facing external contact