Engineering Manager

Who We Are:

Lippert is a leading, global manufacturer and supplier of highly engineered products and customized solutions, dedicated to shaping, growing and bettering the RV, marine, automotive, commercial vehicle and building products industries. We combine our strategic manufacturing capabilities with the power of our winning team culture to deliver unrivaled customer service, award-winning innovation and premium products to all of our customers.

Why We are Different:

At Lippert, Everyone Matters. This is not just a tagline or empty promise; it is who we are. We have intentionally created a culture that values and celebrates our team members' unique and varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We strive to give our team members a deeper sense of purpose at work, and we continue to build a better work environment by aligning our cultural and business strategies with the needs of our team members.

What You will Get:

1. A unique, inclusive and supportive company culture.
2. Comprehensive benefit offerings including medical, dental, vision, 401k with employer match, vacation, and more!
3. Fair and competitive compensation.
4. Career development and mentoring and opportunities to grow.
5. Holiday, personal and vacation days.

Summary/Objective:

Effectively lead the Chassis Engineering team to ensure the successful execution of the core and peripheral functions.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Lead engineering department and processing documents for all fabrication.
2. Overseeing programming of all machinery.
3. New SKU creation, routes, and BOMs.
4. Training the programming team on all aspects of new and existing machinery.

Other Key Responsibilities

1. Recruit and onboard new team members
2. Oversee a 30+ member team
3. Directly manage 4-6 Team Leaders
4. Develop current and potential team leaders to become more effective at their current or future roles
5. Communicate/cooperate with Operations on product or process improvement initiatives
6. Communicate/cooperate with Sales to effectively field requests or complications from OEMs
7. Communicate/cooperate with OEMs to effectively field requests or complications
8. Uphold, develop and implement Engineering standards and practices to maintain and/or further the advancement of the Engineering department though how it operates or the product it manages
9. Oversee and assist in team member engagement strategies
10. Advocate on behalf of team members by securing adequate resources for success

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Working Conditions:

• Primarily working indoors, office environment.
• May sit for several hours at a time.
• Prolonged exposure to computer screens.
• Repetitive use of hands to operate computers, printers, and copiers.
• Travel to customer or other Lippert facilities may be required
• Floor time at customers or other Lippert facilities may be required which may include walking, kneeling, crouching, sitting, standing

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in Engineering
2. Auto CAD
3. SolidWorks
4. Sigmanest
5. Robowave
6. Lantek
7. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications

Competencies:

1. Must be able to work as a part of a team to achieve the company's overall goals.
2. Ability to work with and apply mathematical concepts.
3. Ensure all SKUs are programmed for all machinery.
4. Responsible for all training within the department.
5. Ensure that all machines are programmed in a timely manner.
6. Delegate the workload between team members.

Supervisory Responsibility:

1. Act as a leader of the group, but also perform similar work.
2. Supervise: assign work to be done, methods used and take responsibility for all of the group's work.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

This is a full-time position, and the expected work hours are 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday; weekend and overnight work could also become necessary.

Travel:

Travel will be minimal and would be primarily local during the business day

Preferred Education and Experience:

1. Proven Leadership experience in a similar industry
2. Public speaking ability
3. Strong organization and time management skills

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:
None

Work Authorization/Security Clearance:

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the Team Member for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Lippert provides equal employment opportunity to all team members and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, disability, citizen status, protected veteran status, military service, marital status or any other legally protected category as established by federal, state, or local law. This policy governs all employment decisions, including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, compensation, training, promotion, discipline, transfer, leave-of-absence, access to benefits, layoff, recall, termination and other personnel matters. All employment and personnel-related decisions are based solely upon legitimate, job-related factors, such as skill, ability, past performance, and length of service with Lippert.

Lippert's strong commitment to equal employment opportunity requires a commitment by each individual team member. Compliance with the letter and spirit of this policy is required of all team members. Violations of this policy should be immediately reported to your leader or to any member of leadership. Team members who violate this policy will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

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