Engineering Manager - Passive Products

The Engineering Manager Passive Products leads and manages a team of engineers, focusing on both technical and people management aspects to ensure passive products projects are completed successfully and teams are motivated and productive. They bridge the gap between technical execution and strategic business goals, ensuring projects align with company objectives and are delivered on time and within budget.

• Provide technical leadership in plastic part design and processing.
  
• Plan, organize, and oversee projects, ensuring they meet quality standards and deadlines.
  
• Lead the Passive Products Engineering team in optimizing product design, streamlining process, and ensuring on-time, onbudget execution of custom and standard products.
  
• Drive optimization of custom and standard fixtures to meet client requirements and cost targets
  
• Provide input to department development roadmaps, and investments in tools to support product development.
  
• Identify and resolve technical and interpersonal challenges that arise during projects.
  
• Support new product introductions that are handed off from New Product Development.
  
• Coordinate closely with Design/Sales, Production, and Purchasing to ensure seamless handoff from concept to production and on time delivery.
  
• Monitor and evaluate current processes to identify areas for optimization and implement improvements.
  
• Utilize and implement process control methodology to solve problems and improve process control and capability issues.
  
• Recruit, hire, and develop talent to support department goals.
  
• Help establish department G&O.
  
• Perform other duties as assigned.
  

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with key accounts, focusing on proactive and timely communication.
  
• Able to provide professional service through all levels of the organization.
  
• Appropriately escalate matters where projects/programs stagnate or barriers are met.
  
• Strong customer focus and relationship-building skills.
  
• Structured, organized, and oriented, able to multitask on several large projects simultaneously.
  
• Able to take ownership of product lines and work with Key Account Salespeople to bring a broad market perspective to assist Sales in meeting customer needs.
  
• Ability to identify problems that need resolution, propose solutions, and escalate as needed.
  
• Develop independent judgment is required to plan, prioritize, and organize a diversified workload and recommend changes in office practices or procedures.
  
• Expected travel level up to 10%.
  

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering required.
  
• Master's degree in mechanical engineering preferred.
  
• 3 years of managerial experience required.
  
• 10 years of Plastics experience (injection, structural foam) required.
  
• A minimum of 3-5 years' related experience in manufacturing product management, design engineering, or manufacturing engineering.
  
• Fiber Optics experience desired (patch panel, splice trays, handling & routing).
  
• CREO/Windchill preferred, 3D CAD (SW or other) required.
  
• FEA experience (stress, creep, compression, etc.) using CREO Simulate or Ansys.
  
• Familiarity with industry standards including: Telcordia Specification, TIA, SCTE, FOA, etc. and the testing required.
  
• Knowledge of Product Life Cycle Management, 3 D printing and RCA required.
  
• Knowledge of Tooling and its design for review with 3rd party tool designers required.
  
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
  

The physical demands described are representative of those that an employee must successfully perform. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Employees must regularly lift and/or move up to 35 pounds to demonstrate or provide training on products.
  

The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential job functions.

• Employees regularly work in an office environment with occasional travel to the manufacturing facilities and customer locations (field or office)