GAST Manufacturing, a unit of IDEX Corporation, is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead global applications and new product development processes to achieve company growth goals. The role requires a dynamic leader who can bridge personnel engagement and technical knowledge to execute engineering projects and develop talent.
Requirements
- BSME or similar with MS preferred
- 5+ years of engineering and project management experience in new product development and applications with manufacturing, industrial, pneumatics/hydraulic systems or similar
- 5+ years of engineering management / leadership experience with demonstrated development of individuals and program management
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with alignment to audience expectations
- Demonstrated creative problem solving skills with process based approach and methodologies
- Ability to analyze data and decipher key learnings to support strong decision making
- Natural curiosity to learn and understand technical and personnel situations for optimal judgements
Responsibilities
- Goal setting, 1 on 1’s, feedback/accountability, development plans (based on 70/20/10 learning process), and overall guidance of engineering, design, and supporting team members
- Attend 3W meetings, provide technical feedback, assist in troubleshooting, eliminate hurdles, and support project acceleration
- Develop and manage department budgets for projects, applications, and the pneumatic laboratory
- Manage and own IP process as Gast working with attorney’s to capture, process, and provide guidance with provisional, utility, and design patents
- Owner of engineering processes (NPD, Applications, Engineering Change, etc.) ensuring organizational awareness and usage of processes
- Understands and aligns engineering resources to projects and activities based on capacity planning and resource capabilities. Creates optimal structure to support organizational goals and targets
- Sharing of major project activities, cross functional team alignment, risk valuation, and timing expectations across the organization
Other
- Must be able to travel up to 10% of the time
- Regularly required to sit, frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to touch, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear
- Frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
- Must be able to work in environments with moderate noise levels in the office and excessive noise levels, exposure to weather elements, working around or adjacent to moving and mobile equipment and climbing ladders at manufacturing facilities
