Job Description
General Summary
This position manages all activities within a department, ensures that project/department milestones/goals are met and adhering to approved budgets, confronts and solves performance/operational issues to improve development efficiency, leads and develops the team, and monitors the status of projects and provides guidance to reporting designers and team members.
Position Type - Full-Time, Contract, Long-Term
Location - SE Michigan, USA
Special Requirements - Preferred US Citizenship or Green Card
- Manages a small team of Design engineers in the product design, test, and release responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate the overall integration of technical activities in Design projects
- Prepare department budgets
- Direct, review and approve project design changes
- Develop and implement policies, standards, and procedures for design work
- Lead the team in understanding and following company policies and procedures
- Creating Reports
- Working knowledge of Teamcenter, UG/PLM++, SAP, and Microsoft Office applications
- Establish training course requirements and provides instruction to all supervisory personnel
- BSME, BSEE or equivalent, relevant product design/engineering degree
- 7 or more years of relevant experience including vehicle design, test, and overall development
- 1-3 years of supervisory experience required
- Knowledge of Teamcenter
- Familiarity will military specifications and standards preferred
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment and establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, plant personnel, vendors with various stakeholders by communicating project status, issues and next steps
- Ability to communicate effectively with customers and senior leadership through the generation of executive briefs
- Sight: must be able to regularly read computer screen, reports, and various documents with detail and clarity to accomplish work tasks in a safe and efficient manner, including regular use of adequate close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus
- Hearing: must be able to regularly hear well enough to communicate
- Hand-Eye Coordination: must be able to regularly coordinate one’s eyes with one’s fingers, wrists, or arms to move, carry, or manipulate objects or to perform other job-related tasks
- Manual Dexterity: must be able to regularly make quick, accurate, skillful, and coordinated movement with hands and arms to grasp, place, move, or use objects such as phone, computer, and other office equipment, tools, or controls
- Agility: must be able to regularly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with the body, arms, or legs to perform job tasks, including the ability to move throughout all areas of the facility, Company’s property surrounding facility, or additional work areas
- Climbing / Kneeling: must be able to occasionally climb, kneel, bend over, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, with balance
- Lifting: must be able to occasionally lift up to 25 pounds with or without assistance
- Physical Strength: must be able to occasionally lift, push, pull, or carry objects using hands, arms, back, abdominal muscles, shoulders, legs, or a combination of these muscle groups
- Stamina: must be able to occasionally exert oneself physically over long periods of time, including performing repetitive or strenuous tasks as well as standing and sitting for long periods
- Physical Location: This position operates between an office and manufacturing plant environment and is often assigned to a specific shift or hours. The Employee must be able to perform job functions in an environment with varying difficult work conditions such as extreme cold, heat, inclement weather, at heights, and/or while exposed to constant/intermittent loud noises
- Teamwork: This position will work with others to ensure efficiency in the workplace
- Listening Skills: This position will need to understand how to use machinery properly and safely to prevent accidents and ensure all tasks are completed accurately
- Ability to follow instructions: Managers assign tasks and responsibilities, which vary; this position should be able to follow instructions competently
- Methodical approach: Production lines follow a set process, so this position needs a methodical approach to ensure all tasks are completed in the correct order for a smooth-running production line
- Concentration: This position may perform the same or similar tasks repeatedly, so a strong level of concentration when carrying out these tasks is important for quality control purposes. This role is often fast paced, so being able to maintain focus at all times is important
Up to 25% travel may be required