Engineering Manager

**Objective**
Product Design and Development to meet desired specifications for new products, cost improvements, channel initiatives, and other corporate objectives. Plan, develop and direct multiple major engineering projects. Organize functional engineering group department with full technical responsibilities for multiple product lines. Implementation of NPI’s best industry practices by documenting them in Werner’s standards. Provide a vision to all operation’s functional areas and its leadership of the new projects implementation. Creates synergy amongst them all. Manager of individual contributors.

**Responsabilities**:
Engineering Infrastructure
- Continuously improve and advance the technical and execution capability of the engineering team through skills, tools, training, systems, and process investment.
- Work in conjunction with the Itasca team to manage the prototyping and testing facility personnel and priorities to ensure optimal support to product development activities.
- Benchmark other local companies for improving overall proficiency and performance of the Product Engineering department.

New Product Development
- Supervisory oversite on all product related activities in Juarez to ensure a successful design for manufacturing, launch and execution of new products throughout the various phases of the NPD/NPI process.
- Responsible for providing input to overall preparation and continued maintenance of 3-year product roadmap with product engineering management.
- Support the development of new product technologies and work in conjunction with the Advanced Development team to ensure successful builds and validations.
- Participate in annual Technology Roadmap and stay up to date by participating in Technical Trade shows and transferring knowledge into engineering organization.
- Drive improvements in productivity and product features throughout areas of existing product designs utilizing new technologies that emerge where applicable (extrusion, webbing, fabrication, assembly, plastics).

New Product Implementation
- Supervisory oversite on all activities and deliverables in Juarez to ensure a flawless launch of New Product Introduction.
- Ensures communication of NPI project requirements, status, risk elevation and resolution to main stakeholders in Itasca and Juarez.
- Responsible of the functional areas adherence to the NPI procedures and implementation of Industries best practices
- Facilitates the fulfillment of the business needs for NPI by relentlessly pursuing compliance with Juarez and corporate key deliverables and metrics. Resolves conflicts between product management requirements and manufacturing facilities capabilities with a wholistic business approach.

Other Duties:

- Understands and follows Quality Management System, Program Management.

**Profile**:
**Academic grade**: BSME or equivalent required; MSME preferred.

**Experience**:

- Supervisory - 5+ years of Sr. Product Engineer/Team Lead/Supervisory responsibilities in a Product Engineering organization. 5+ years in NPI Engineer/Manager roles.
- Experience with diverse product portfolio required. Industry background where customer/end user safety and product liability, cost (material, manufacture/assembly, packaging), weight and time to market are key.
- Design and Development Capability - 10+ years of designing products for professional, hardware, or retail channels of distribution.
- Cross-functional activities - 10+ years of working with other functional members to have a good understanding of requirements to do each job (production, scheduling, inventory management, product design & testing, manufacturing processes).
- Talent development and people leadership and supervisory skills (direct and indirect).
- Interpersonal Skills - Ability to work well with all levels of the organization in a matrix environment to drive change

**Technical Knowledge**:

- Experience with metal and plastic materials, structural analysis, extrusion, fabrication and joining for high volume production.
- Expertise in contemporary design and modeling/analysis tools; SolidWorks preferred
- 2D/3D CAD Intermediate level.
- Power Point Intermediate level.
- Excel Advance level.
- MS Project proeficient.
- Bilingual (Spanish & English) required.