Engineering Manager

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Job Description:

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team within Checking & Releasing Division. As a First-Line manager, the incumbent will provide leadership to the team primarily focused on providing Engineering Quality services for various Energy & Transportation Products.

Job Related Statistics:
Total Operating Expenses: Less than $2 Million
Personnel: Manage a team of 15 Full time employees and 20+ Contract employees

Job Duties:

As an Engineering Manager, you will coach, guide and facilitate the development of a workgroup to develop collaborative relationship among themselves, as well as with Clients, Suppliers and other functional groups to ensure goals are achieved.

You would create and maintain an organizational climate / culture which encourages innovation, collaboration, excitement / commitment and a sense of urgency towards business success.

Position requires excellent human relations, interpersonal, and communications skills. Ability to draw upon the role-based competencies of Managing Vision & Purpose, Motivating Others, Developing Others, and Listening.

Detailed Job description:

• Manage and lead a team of Engineering Quality Checkers that provide form, fit and functional engineering checking services for various Energy & Transportation Products.
• Project management activities include resource planning, project allocation, tracking and status reporting to meet client expectations on quality, velocity, and cost.
• Responsible for continuous process improvement activities to improve the key performance deliverables in Checking & Releasing Division.
• Provide people leadership inclusive of coaching, career planning and performance management.
• Consciously establish a culture that encourages innovation, partnering and collaborative relationships and customer focus.
• Accountable for creating additional value to the clients in total quality assurance activities that impact product quality and improve CPPD effectiveness of various products.
• Responsible for managing the budget, resources, and expenses within checking & Releasing Division.

Background/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in an accredited Engineering, Mechanical or Automobile curriculum plus 12-18 years of experience in Engineering
• Project Management experience
• Stakeholder management experience
• Experience of managing teams with over 15 direct employees & proven team management and leadership skills.

Desired Skills:

• 6 Sigma BB experience
• Product Development experience in mining / construction industry
• Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

Skill Descriptors:

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.

 Level Working Knowledge:

• Contributes to short-term operational plans.

• Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.

• Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.

• Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.

• Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviours.

 Level Working Knowledge:

• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviours without offending the recipient.

• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.

• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.

• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.

• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

 Level Working Knowledge:

• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.

• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.

• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.

• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.

• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

 Level Extensive Experience:

• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.

• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.

• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.

• Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.

• Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.

• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Customer/Market Focus: Understanding of the importance of remaining aware of shifting market priorities and ability to respond to internal and external customer needs in a manner that consistently adds value.

 Level Working Knowledge:

• Surfaces new or unexpressed customer needs.

• Focuses product and service features and functions on the customer's critical success factors.

• Develops consistent methods for maintaining customer responsiveness.

• Delivers customer value within parameters of profitability and other targets.

• Escalates systemic problems that could affect customer satisfaction.

Managing People: Knowledge of processes involved in managing people; ability to lead successful teams, and diligently address issues related to performance and conflicts at the workplace.

 Level Working Knowledge:

• Assesses the amount of time and resources needed to accomplish a task; delegates work accordingly.

• Explains how the team's work contributes to the success of the organization; creates a shared vision.

• Reviews progress and performance of employees; addresses bottlenecks or concerns impending employee growth.

• Uses multiple channels such as meetings, e-mails, newsletters to communicate important messages with the team regularly.

• Works with employees to set and define performance standards and career development goals; supports in achieving them.

Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.

 Level Extensive Experience:

• Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time.

• Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects.

• Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans.

• Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients.

• Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.

• Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.

Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production.

 Level Extensive Experience:

• Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness.

• Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.

• Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services.

• Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products.

• Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems.

• Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.

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