Engineering Manager
Company: Stryten Energy
Location: Waterloo
Posted on: May 9, 2024
Job Description:
OverviewThe Engineering Manager is responsible for the
development, support, and improvement of the manufacturing
processes for the plant. Will lead a team of Process and Continuous
improvement engineers.About the work location:Manchester is a city
in Delaware County, Iowa, United States, located along the Highway
20 corridor between Dyersville and Independence. Delaware County is
centrally located just 45 minutes from some of Iowa's biggest hubs
(Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, and Dubuque) - but you don't need to go
far to find excitement. Delaware County is home to several golf
courses, parks, museums, retail shops, a movie theatre, festivals
and fairs, water sport recreational areas, and evening
entertainment. Delaware County offers successful academics programs
in three community school districts and a critical access hospital
to provide healthcare close to home.To learn more about Manchester,
Iowa (postal code 52057) - click the links below: - - Apply online
or text strytenjobs to 97211 to begin your pre-screening process!
Responsibilities
- Capital Expense planning and budgeting.
- Realization and follow up of approved projects
- Directs and accountable for all lean and continuous improvement
activities
- Provide technical support to other departments
- Coordinate projects with other departments
- Provide training and guidance based on the requirements of each
project
- Coach and develop each member of the engineering team
- Calculate the capacity of the factory according to the
production needs
- Improve the reliability efforts of the Engineering department.
Implement key reliability metrics such as Mean Time Between Failure
and drive a systematic approach towards reliability efforts that
will decrease down time and increase production throughput. Train
managers on the use of these of these metrics.
- This position is the Site Management of Change coordinator, and
ESG facilitator Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial
Engineering related field.
- At least 5 years of experience managing engineering teams.
- Understanding of manufacturing cost drivers and knowledge of
continuous cost improvement processes
- Investigations and benchmarking activities with all the
departments in order to know other standards and technologies and
propose improvements based on this. Work with suppliers on
equipment issues.
- Team building and teamwork activities intra and
interdepartmental to share, clarify and track targets and results.
Mentoring efforts have positive affect on plants overall
performance. Experience in work orders.
- Experience setting and managing annual budget. Spend approval
for engineering contracts with machinery and installations
suppliers, look for improved prices for machinery, spare parts,
etc. Cost estimating.
- Preparation of capital requests. Recognition and communication
of both benefits and risks. Cash out preparation and managing.
- Knowledge related to legal regulations and contractual
relationships which can affect performance and applications in the
workplace.Skills:
- Proven knowledge and demonstrated skills in Project Management,
use of a structured approach to project leadership, project status
management and oversight. Plan and communicate the scope of
projects. Lead collaborators' team. View priorities and creatively
apply different types of resources to achieve the agreed
objectives. Tracking of plans, results and new improvement
proposals to the team and top management. Ability to manage
multiple projects / priorities simultaneously.
- General technical knowledge in utilities, electronics,
mechanical, chemical, pneumatic, hydraulics, installations designs,
etc. General knowledge of Allen Bradley PLC software
preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze data and metrics to create
understanding, make sound decision making, problem solve and manage
performance and progress over time. Experience in how to analyze
the failed process.
- Skills in planning, organizing and priority setting, including
resource allocation and management.
- Team building and teamwork activities intra and
interdepartmental, and with other factories and units in the
company (and if possible with other factories to share, clarify and
track targets and results).
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Fully capable of communicating, negotiating, making
presentations and reporting in English, at a Business and technical
English level and cope successfully in an environment exclusive of
English-speaking.Travel / Other Requirements:Plant environment.
Some travel may be required. EEOStryten Energy is an equal
opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are
considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national
origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information,
sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other
basis prohibited by law. About Our CompanyStryten Energy helps
solve the world's most pressing energy challenges with a broad
range of energy storage solutions across the Essential Power,
Motive Power, Transportation, Military and Government sectors.
Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, we partner with some of the
world's most recognized companies to meet the growing demand for
reliable and sustainable energy storage capacity. Stryten powers
everything from submarines to subcompacts, microgrids, warehouses,
distribution centers, cars, trains and trucks. Our stored energy
technologies include advanced lead, lithium and vanadium redox flow
batteries, intelligent chargers and energy performance management
software that keep people on the move and supply chains running. An
industry leader backed by more than a century of expertise, Stryten
has The Energy to Challenge the status quo and deliver
top-performing energy solutions for today and tomorrow. Learn more
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Keywords: Stryten Energy, Cedar Rapids , Engineering Manager, Executive , Waterloo, Iowa
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