Engineering Manager – Industrial Products & PLC Engineering

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What We Offer:

• Competitive salary 

• Paid vacation/holidays/sick time 

• Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care – available day one!

• On the job/cross training opportunities 

• Encouraging and collaborative team environment 

• Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy 

What You Will Do:  

This position is within the water-cooled chiller product engineering team. We are seeking an engineering manager that will lead a team of engineers focused on industrial chiller products and PLC design (software and hardware) for new products and retrofits.​

• Provide day-to-day administrative and technical guidance to a group of mechanical product engineers and PLC controls/hardware engineers to accomplish specific custom engineered chiller projects.

• Create standard workflow processes to manage workload within the team.  Ensure transparency of process and performance.

• Help manage cross functional teams to ensure we are hitting project deadlines and milestones for industrial product orders and PLC retrofit opportunities.

• Manage commitments to various groups based on a deep knowledge and understanding of team workload and backlog.  Track & improve metrics related to delivery of order data.

• Manage development projects occurring within industrial product offerings to continuously drive product cost and performance optimization.

• Manage team to provide adequate support to pre and post sales activities relative to their product responsibilities.

• Continuously drive improvements in team efficiency and capabilities.

• Foster environment for team success and development. 

• Apply process and project management techniques to execute programs within budget and schedule.

How You Will Do It: 

• Manage and balance workload within the team.

• Coach and develop junior engineers.

• Work closely with manufacturing and order management teams to ensure successful order processing, manufacturing, shipment and startup of contract engineered industrial orders.

• Work closely with global retrofit team organizations to ensure chiller retrofit jobs are managed to successful completion.

• Utilize experience with problem solving and root cause corrective action to drive improvements in product designs.

What We Look For:

Required

• The ideal candidate will have a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering or related science and a minimum of ten (10) years of related experience.

• Chiller or other custom configured product design and manufacturing experience.

• Strong team building and communications skills are required.

• The ability to work on multiple simultaneous programs that support strategic JCI initiatives.

• Strong project management skills are essential.

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