Manufacturing Engineering Manager
Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions
- Minnetonka, MN
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Communication skills, both written and oral
- Proven interpersonal skills and problem-solving abilities
- This position entails professionalism and independent judgment, and the overall ability to work with employees in all areas of the organization
- Knowledge of assembly and manufacturing processes used in Engineering Equipment
- Provide leadership, coaching, and development of team members ensuring positive and effective cooperation with cross-functional team members to ensure business objectives around safety, quality, efficiency, and new product development are met.
- Directs department activities to design equipment needed to improve production.
- Resolves problems using methodical data driven solutions that involve new techniques, technologies, or concepts.
- Analyzes production trends, human resource needs, and customer demand to plan department activities.
- Confers with management, production, and sales staff to determine engineering feasibility, cost effectiveness, and production capability for new and existing products.
- Design support for centrifugal pumps and membrane element housings.
- Advises management of new developments which may affect profit, schedule, costs, customer relations, and/or interdepartmental relations.
- Provides direction and application of company policies and procedures to the engineering activities.
- Maintains a working knowledge of new technologies which may improve operations and develops recommendations accordingly.
- Maintains a working knowledge of safety policies and regulations to ensure duties of self and others are performed in a safe manner.
- Demonstrated leadership of capital / continuous improvement projects focused on meeting corporate and departmental goals
- Effective at developing and managing a project plan to achieve desired results
- Proven ability to achieve required objectives through the leadership of others
- Strong problem solving / troubleshooting experience
- Detail-oriented, highly organized, self-directed, and capable of interacting and communicating with all levels within the organization.
- Ability to multitask and lead / prioritize multiple projects
- Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering
- At least 5 years of manufacturing engineering work experience
- Demonstrated people leadership work experience
- Computer system data terminal
- Quiet production environment utilizing Lean Manufacturing Principle
- approximately 5% Travel