Sr. Manager, R&D Engineering

KION Group•Grand Rapids, MI

1d•$142,400 - $178,000

About The Position

Dematic is looking for an Engineering Manager for the Product Development (PD) group of Intelligent Automated Solutions, Americas Region. At Dematic, we develop mechatronic products and subsystems used in our warehouse automation solutions globally. This Senior Engineering Manager leads a team of Product Development Engineers providing sustaining support of commercialized products. This CPS (Commercialized Product Sustaining) support includes evaluating requests for changes to components, materials, processes, to satisfy changing customer and compliance needs while ensuring integrity of the product design. The CPS group is also called upon to answer application questions and assist project teams in troubleshooting issues with existing products at current customers for products used within the Americas Region. The team may also support Dematic project team Engineering Design Requests (EDRs) to develop customer specific solutions to solve unique customer needs. 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/ Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $142,400 - $178,000 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills. Tasks and Qualifications: This is What You Will do in This Role:

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering (at minimum, Mechanical Engineering Preferred)
Minimum of 10 years of engineering and engineering people leadership experience
Excellent leadership, teamwork, influencing, mentoring, coaching and interpersonal skills.
Excellent analytical, organization and time management skills.
Effective communication skills including demonstrated stand-up presentation skills, group facilitation and ability to effectively interact with customers.
Advanced 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 both remote and office environments leading distributed workforce.
The ability to effectively manage multiple and conflicting high-level business problems simultaneously under time constraints.
Travel up to 20% to the customer site, other Dematic offices or identified locations for meetings, training, and business needs.
Passport required for travel out of the country as needed.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree is a plus.
Experience with multi-site engineering management is a plus.
Material Handling Industry Experience strongly preferred.
Product Development Experience
Controls technology exposure is a plus.
NX and Teamcenter experience preferred.
Experience using SAP for materials, order and time tracking preferred.
SAP 4 Hana experience is a Plus.

Responsibilities

Lead, manage and coach a team of Development Engineers to deliver cost effective, reliable material handling products to meet requirements for the internal and external business customers including ease of manufacture, installation, and serviceability.
Participate in the development and implementation of strategic and tactical plans to achieve on-time delivery of products through resource management including interns and outside contractors as needed and approved.
Build international partnerships to extend consistent standards during a period of growth and future stability.
Create and maintain a feedback loop for customers at all levels to ensure day to day job tasks are meeting expectations.
Drive continuous improvement and lean initiatives.
Maintain culture and external team partnerships across all levels of Dematic to bring team visibility and team engagement.
Run engineering groups in the region to function as first line of Dematic R&D Engineering regional project support for technologies developed in other DEM regions.
Ensure that products are executed by their teams are on schedule and on budget while meeting requirements and quality targets.
Weekly touch points and monthly evaluation and reporting of product status
Accurate monthly forecasting
Establish appropriate tasking.
Identify skills gap assessment, appropriate skills assignment, and make plans to close knowledge gaps.
Maintain safety & compliance standards and communication.
Proactively drive capacity planning through innovative demand sourcing
Issue resolution or conflict resolution; escalations with appropriate level of context and detail along with recommended actions when appropriate.
Ensuring products comply with changing environmental, safety and governmental requirements of each region product is applied within by Dematic, while finding the most practical, cost-effective ways of doing so.
Awareness of budget plan and ensuring that daily management decision is aligned (training hours, OT, indirect vs direct), initiative-taking management.
Awareness of Strategic Plans and what their team’s responsibility is for achieving those goals.
Managing Team and Individual expenses
Manages workload to product budgets and risk mitigation.
Driving improvements for the greater of larger department from strategic initiatives.
Be a change agent.
Drive Process Improvement, increase team performance, metrics and build team/group cohesion.
Create effective business presentations.