Engineering Manager-3
Kion Group AG
We offer:
• Career Development
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits
• Pay Transparency
• Global Opportunities
Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer/
Tasks and Qualifications:
What You Will do in This Role:
· Ability to partner with remote team members to track progress, success, and personal and project performance gaps.
· Ability to identify, align and manage skills and development target goals.
· Ensure compliance with local and supported authorities for visa management.
· Maintain a schedule for individual contributors for the direct team, while coordinating with a large team to ensure the level-loading of team members.
· Managing scope, budget, and schedules per SoW request.
· Build cross-functional partnerships with regional managers to maintain consistency and standards.
· Project support and initiative to push and support high-priority demands; including technical support and training as needed.
· Understand the scope of technical responsibility to support team growth and focus.
· Maintain team tools, including but not limited to, laptops, PPE, etc.
Project Delivery:
· Continuous monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of team status.
· Assigns the appropriate technical resources to projects.
· Ensuring adherence to standard work and quality processes.
· MTY - Participate in cross-functional technical reviews to ensure alignment of technical specifications and customer requirements.
· MTY - Participates in design review with sales and solution development for a project quotation.
· MTY - Reviews solutions development quotes for technical and costing accuracy.
· Implements effective engineering methods and provides technical guidance and acts as a resource for engineers.
· Workload balancing and forecasts.
· Working cross-functionally with other disciplines (all Project Execution disc).
· Skills gap assessment - looking across multiple projects (could also be Director) - looking across a program.
· Responsible for approving project schedules and holding teams accountable, reviewing, reject & offer solutions.
· Working with internal partners to proactively clear potential project delivery roadblocks.
· Issue resolution or conflict resolution.
· Ensuring the project is going through quality gates/process adherence.
· Maintain safety & compliance standards and communication.
· Provide resource support and prioritize resources with One Dematic in mind, not at the expense of other projects.
Financial Accountability:
· Managing Team and Individual expenses.
· Awareness of the cost impact of direct vs indirect labor.
· Forecasting workload and managing indirect hours.
· Awareness of the relationship between Statements of Work and inputted forecasts (YLF).
People Leadership:
· Responsible to ensure that engineers are technically trained to meet project requirements.
· Effectively recruit, onboard, and integrate new hires into the team.
· Talent development - coaching/mentoring.
· Train and/or align training for a rotational onboarding need at several skill levels and key functions.
· Supervisory responsibilities include monitoring the performance of your direct engineering team.
· These responsibilities include making decisions on staffing needs; disciplinary actions; development and evaluation of work objectives and their effectiveness; and realigning projects and associate assignments as necessary.
· Provide effective coaching and technical guidance, and communicate as necessary with all levels of management, customers, and subcontractors on the program team
Strategic and Tactical Initiatives/Projects: - Track status, steering committee, report out status.
What We’re Looking For:
· Required: Bachelor's Degree (Electrical, Mechanical, Controls).
· Advanced degree a plus
Knowledge and Experience:
· Minimum of 3-5 years of successful experience in a directly related field. Demonstrated leadership capabilities in current role. Previous mgt experience is not required.
· Advocates and recommends changes in processes and/or procedures to improve processes, projects, and teams.
· Anticipates trends, and problems and enthusiastically searches for resolutions.
· Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
Skills:
· Excellent leadership, teamwork, influencing, mentoring, coaching, and interpersonal skills.
· Excellent analytical, organization, and time management skills.
· Effective communication skills include demonstrated stand-up presentation skills, group facilitation, and effectively interacting with customers.
· Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively in a team-based organization and with employees of all levels and backgrounds across all functions.
· PC skills with demonstrated knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project. Ability to work individually and under minimal supervision to include a mixture of remote and office environments leading a distributed workforce.
· Travel up to 50% to the customer site, other Dematic offices, or identified locations for meetings, training, and business needs.
