LSS MU Sr. Engineering Manager

Job Description Summary

The responsibilities of the Senior Engineering Manager will encompass comprehensive project execution at existing customer sites, including promoting safety, achieving KPIs for quality, delivery, and cost, and managing project risks. You will also be accountable for financial oversight, managing team budgets, forecasting, and optimizing resource allocation. A core aspect of this role is people leadership: leading by example, mentoring managers, fostering talent development through coaching and training, and maintaining strong team communication. Additionally, you will drive continuous improvement initiatives with a goal of enhancing productivity and quality.

What You Will Do In This Role:

Project Execution

• Promote safety culture across organization with a focus on zero incidents and 100% compliance.
• Lead efforts to expand team project execution expertise towards a life-cycle engineering perspective; including, but not limited to audits, design, drawings, order entry, configuration, visualization, commissioning, and testing.
• Ensure accuracy and achievement of performance KPI's for quality, on-time delivery, and cost. Proactively clear roadblocks to KPI target attainment for project teams.
• Manage project execution risk through validation of effective project staffing strategies, technical reviews, and comprehensive adherence to standard work and quality processes.
• Participate in cross-functional technical reviews to ensure alignment of technical specifications and customer requirements.
• Participates in design and costing reviews with sales and solution development for a project quotation.
• Continually monitor, evaluate, and report on status of team.
• Work cross-functionally with other disciplines and build multi-functional partnerships with regional managers to maintain consistency and standards.
• Continually represent the organization as a key customer-facing external contact and partner.

Financial

• Works with manager direct reports to review project budgets and actual costs, identifying areas for improvement and developing mitigation plans where appropriate.
• Ownership of program financial budgets using actual and forecasted cost data.
• Provide regular reporting of project/program performance and status to management and peers.
• Take necessary actions to ensure staffing levels and talent support current and forecasted workload.
• Drive capacity planning through continual pipeline and team bandwidth assessments

People Leadership

• Lead team members by example and by living KION's shared Group Values and Leadership Principles.
• Mentor engineering managers through steady collaboration that involves one-on-one conversations, practical coaching and learning opportunities.
• Assess and assign appropriate disciplines and skillsets of resources to successfully deliver engineering content utilizing all available talent pools both internal and external.
• Support talent development through active and consistent engagement including 1-1 meetings, real-time learning/coaching opportunities, and training programs.
• Effectively identifying the right candidates, helping in their onboard, and integrating the new hires into the team.

What We Are Looking For:

• Problem Solving
• Proficient Customer Facing Skills
• Excellent Communication and Interpersonal Skills
• Detail Oriented with Ability to Manage Multiple Projects or Programs Simultaneously
• Ability to Travel up to 20% of the time.
• Minimum 7 years of successful experience in related field and previous managerial experience with a proven track record of leading teams to deliver complex projects.
• Proven experience leading projects from contract approval through customer acceptance and turnover to warranty.
• Proven experience leading a team of four or more direct reports to successfully achieve team goals.
• Role is based in Guadalupe, Mexico (on-site position)
• Engineering Bachelor's Degree (Electrical, Mechanical, Controls). Advanced degree a plus.
• Proven problem solver, with ability to facilitate groups to solve problems.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to interact effectively in a team-based organization and with employees of all levels and backgrounds across all functions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English is required, as well as presentation skills.