Project Engineering Manag

Description

Job Title: Project Engineering Manager

Reports To: Sr Engineering Manager

FLSA Status & EEO Code: Exempt & First/Mid-Level Mgr

Division/Department: GHM/Project Engineering

Salary Grade: A40

Level of Work: II and III

Position Summary: The Project Engineering Manager directs and coordinates the Project Engineering Department resources and administrative approach in the project engineering and project management of products and customer orders. The manager cultivates, manages, and improves the department resources, oversees development of initiatives and capabilities, is responsible for department administrative responsibilities and cross-functional coordination, manages the day-to-day activities of the department, and provides overall oversight for the execution of engineered projects to ensure product offerings meet customer requirements and contractual obligations.

Key Results Areas by level of work:  

Level II: Service – Coordinating “production” with problem solving and prevention

Resource management (material and people)

1. Develop, lead, and manage a high performing team to maximize customer satisfaction.
2. Deliver projects on time, on budget, with performance and quality specified by stakeholders to enhance long term viability of the organization.
3. Provide oversight of all engineered product projects and advise management of developments which may affect safety, quality, schedule, profit, customer relations, and/or inter-departmental relations.
4. Plan, coordinate and direct department activities to effectively and efficiently design new products, modify existing designs, resulting in equipment designs that minimize material and labor costs.
5. Build and manage resources, processes, systems, and controls to effectively execute the project engineering function.
6. Analyze market factors, future business, company capacity, technology trends, and human resource needs to ensure appropriate capability and staffing for future projects.
7. Define expectations, delegate as appropriate, provide positive reinforcement, promote team problem solving, coach and develop employees to enhance employee engagement,collaboration, and effectiveness.
8. Train and ensure all assigned employees are aware of and comply with company, industry, government, and customer policies, procedures, and regulations.
9. Ensure integration between departments and leaders while managing change through personal impact on people’s understanding, attitudes and behavior.

Resource scheduling, output management and reporting

1. Oversee reviews of all department output for compliance with stated requirements of industry Codes and standards, governmental, and contractual. 
2. Collaborate with executive leadership to develop and define long range company goals and objectives while supplying expertise and guidance on engineered projects and systems.
3. Evaluate department activities and initiatives relative to company goals; prepare and present periodic reports showing applicable metrics and statistics. Develop specific short-term and long-term goals and plans with supporting budget requests and financial estimates.
4. Provide effective communication and reporting to ensure all stakeholders are working together.
5. Consult with management, production, and marketing staff to determine engineering feasibility, cost effectiveness, and customer demand for new and existing products.
6. Responsible for meeting financial targets and key performance indicators including productivity, operating income, revenue, margins, growth and customer satisfaction..

Continuous Improvement

1. Assess programmatic and department activities and risks to make improvements for more consistent and predictable product and service.
2. Maintain and continually improve methodologies used in the operation of the department and recommend/develop new systems, methodologies, and technologies which may improve operations and/or capabilities in the future.
3. Manage time and resource investments to implement proactive product improvements. Includes strategic partnership development and maintaining knowledge of emerging technologies and trends. 
4. Advance the processes, tools, and people within the Engineering Department to facilitate execution of customer contracts. 
5. Plans and formulates aspects of research and development proposals

Equipment & process maintenance

1. Support business development by working with new and existing customers to understand their requirements and develop solutions for their needs.
2. Develop business capabilities to enter new markets and progressively expand market share in all product and service areas to enhance long term viability of the organization.
3. Identify, recommend and implement new relationships, processes, technologies and systems to align engineering capabilities with strategic business direction.
4. Terminate practices, systems, and processes that are no longer aligned with the strategic direction.
5. Create a culture of continuous improvement, accountability and resilience through process documentation, execution, audit, and refinement throughout the engineered product teams.
6. Enable and empower streamlining the processes that span across departments.
7. Assess, improve, and execute cross-organizational alignment and integration of engineering, supply chain, business development, product management, production, and sales functions. 

Professional Development (self and reports)

1. Conduct performance reviews, rewarding and disciplining employees, addressing complaints and resolving problems. Ensure all direct reports have a personal development plan for improvement.
2. Continuous reflection on current skill set, personally and within the department, to determine areas of focus for upgrading skill set, effectiveness, and efficiency within the department, through people development, process improvement and expansion of technology to meet the constantly evolving needs of our customer base.

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, an individual must possess the knowledge, training, experience and abilities required. 

Education and Training

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering required (mechanical or chemical preferred)

Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in an engineering field
• 2+ years management experience
• Minimum 3 years experience with recognized quality systems (ISO, AS, QS, RS).
• Familiarity with ANSI Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance (GD&T).
• Familiarity with Lean Manufacturing concepts.
• Working knowledge of metal machining, welding, and non-destructive processes, and familiarity with casting, coating, and finishing processes.

Other: 

• Must be willing to work overtime as required.
• International travel may be required.
• National travel may be required.
• Travel up to 25% of working time.

Skills:

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies: 

1. Must have proficiency in MS office applications including spreadsheet, enterprise resource planning, database, and specialized application software. 
2. Ability and willingness to abide by set policies and/or safety programs established by GHM, our clients, and/or regulatory agencies which govern our performance and behavior in the normal course of our work while on GHM or the client’s property or job site. 
3. Ability to analyze problems and develop effective solutions at both strategic and functional levels. 
4. Demonstrate behavior consistent with company values. 
5. Ability to work independently, with minimal direction as a highly motivated self-starter and within a team oriented culture. 
6. Exhibits polite and professional communication via phone, e-mail and mail. 
7. Follows instructions, responds to management direction; takes responsibility for own actions; keeps commitments; commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan. 
8. Proficient in engineering application software such as Autodesk Inventor; familiar with the capability of analytical software such as ANSYS, CFX, etc. 
9. Obtains support and cooperation from others and reciprocates; demonstrates positive behaviors, displaying tact, respect, and understanding when dealing with others; proactively engages and confronts issues to achieve continual improvement. 
10. Meets challenges with resourcefulness, generates suggestions for improving work; develops innovative approaches and ideas; presents ideas and information in a manner that gets others attention. 
11. Requires excellent analytical and communication skills as well as the ability to mentor and provide direction to supporting personnel. 
12. Acting in a fiduciary role, the incumbent demonstrates exceptional ethical standard of behavior and exercises prudent confidentiality. 
13. Ability and willingness to abide by set company policy. 
14. Excellent understanding of business processes, market and customers. 
15. Ability to translate high-level financial strategy to operational implementation. 
16. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as geometric tolerances and drawing interpretation. Proficient in math including algebra and geometry for first level engineering calculations and pricing models required. Additional skills for engineering modeling desired.
17. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. 
18. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. 
19. Demonstrates pride in workmanship and commitment to continual quality improvement; maintains clean, organized work area; maintains accurate and timely labor reporting; makes improvement based on lessons learned; maintains strict adherence to quality system requirements. 
20. Strong reasoning ability required to allow assessment of a broad range of customer requirements.  
21. Sound engineering judgement required to support customer-consulting tasks. 
22. Demonstrated history of success in variable and dynamic markets and environments. 
23. Use abstract ideas and concepts to construct and test completely new combinations and produce innovation. 
24. Customer Relationship Skills to establish technical scope, requirements, and technical corrective actions. 
25. Ability to operate cross functionally within the organization and drive product improvements throughout the process. 
26. Experience reading technical drawings desired with a drive to be detail oriented and willingness to learn specification requirements. 
27. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. 
28. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagraph form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. 
29. Listens and gets clarification; ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints; writes clearly, correctly, and informatively; ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents; maintains confidentiality. 
30. Proficient in presentation and communication to non-finance functional groups. 
31. Able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. 
32. Strong analytical, organizational and communication skills – written and verbal - are a must. 
33. Ability to solve practical problems in a timely manner whilst dealing with a level of ambiguity. 
34. Must be detail oriented with ability to maintain a strategic outlook. 
35. Proactively identify problems and collaborate with management on implementing possible solutions. 
36. Energetic and eager to tackle new projects and learn new skills. 
37. Manages difficult or emotional personnel situations; responds promptly to personnel needs; solicits personnel feedback to improve service; responds to requests for service and assistance; meets commitments. 
38. Demonstrates knowledge of EEO policy; shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences; educates others on the value of diversity; promotes a harassment-free environment; builds a diverse workforce. 
39. Maintain current technical knowledge pertaining to position; demonstrates comprehensive, flexible range of skills and abilities; seeks to enhance skills and abilities through cross training and educational development. 
40. Provides vision and inspiration to peers and subordinates; identifies opportunities and changes that benefit Graham; exhibits confidence in self and others; open to new ideas and supportive of change; inspires respect and trust; accepts feedback from others; displays passion and optimism; mobilizes self and others to fulfill the organizations goals, policies and procedures. 
41. Develops strategies to achieve organization goals; prioritizes and plans work activities; uses time efficiently; plans for additional resources; sets goals and objectives; organizes or schedules other people and their tasks; develops realistic action plans. 
42. High degree of accountability to meet commitments. 
43. Ability to write detailed reports and correspondence. 
44. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. 
45. Strong mentor/coaching capability to team members and across departments. 
46. Ability to thrive in a team environment.

Physical and Mental Demands

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this position, the incumbent is primarily required to sit, stand, walk, stoop, and bend. Required to speak and communicate clearly with others.
• Mental demands: While performing the duties of this position, the incumbent is required to read, write, analyze data and reports, exercise judgment, develop plans, procedures and goals, present information to others and work under pressure.
• Work Environment: This job primarily operates in a clerical office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers and filing cabinets. 

Work Authorization/Security Clearance (keep or delete)

Must be able to work in the U.S without sponsorship. 

This job description is not all inclusive but rather serves as a general guideline of the current needs of the position and can be modified at the discretion of management to meet current business needs. Experience and education requirements are the primary basis for awarding this position, however substitutions that are essentially equivalent may be made as they relate to the essential functions, duties, and responsibilities of this position