Mechanical Engineering Manager (Isla Guadalupe)

We offer

• Career Development
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits
• Pay Transparency
• Integral Opportunities

Tasks and Qualifications

What You Will do in This Role

• Ability to partner with remote team members to track progress, success, and personal and project performance gaps.
• Ability to identify, align and manage skills and development target goals.
• Ensure compliance with local and supported authorities for visa management.
• Maintain a schedule for individual contributors for the direct team, while coordinating with a large team to ensure the level-loading of team members.
• Managing scope, budget, and schedules per SoW request.
• Build cross-functional partnerships with regional managers to maintain consistency and standards.
• Project support and initiative to push and support high-priority demands; including technical support and training as needed.
• Understand the scope of technical responsibility to support team growth and focus.
• Maintain team tools, including but not limited to, laptops, PPE, etc.

Project Delivery

• Continuous monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of team status.
• Assigns the appropriate technical resources to projects.
• Ensuring adherence to standard work and quality processes.
• MTY - Participate in cross-functional technical reviews to ensure alignment of technical specifications and customer requirements.
• MTY - Participates in design review with sales and solution development for a project quotation.
• MTY - Reviews solutions development quotes for technical and costing accuracy.
• Implements effective engineering methods and provides technical guidance and acts as a resource for engineers.
• Workload balancing and forecasts.
• Working cross-functionally with other disciplines (all Project Execution disc).
• Skills gap assessment - looking across multiple projects (could also be Director) - looking across a program.
• Responsible for approving project schedules and holding teams accountable, reviewing, reject & offer solutions.
• Working with internal partners to proactively clear potential project delivery roadblocks.
• Issue resolution or conflict resolution.
• Ensuring the project is going through quality gates/process adherence.
• Maintain safety & compliance standards and communication.
• Provide resource support and prioritize resources with One Dematic in mind, not at the expense of other projects.

Financial Accountability

• Managing Team and Individual expenses.
• Awareness of the cost impact of direct vs indirect labor.
• Forecasting workload and managing indirect hours.
• Awareness of the relationship between Statements of Work and inputted forecasts (YLF).

People Leadership

• Responsible to ensure that engineers are technically trained to meet project requirements.
• Effectively recruit, onboard, and integrate new hires into the team.
• Talent development - coaching/mentoring.
• Train and/or align training for a rotational onboarding need at several skill levels and key functions.
• Supervisory responsibilities include monitoring the performance of your direct engineering team.
• These responsibilities include making decisions on staffing needs; disciplinary actions; development and evaluation of work objectives and their effectiveness; and realigning projects and associate assignments as necessary.
• Provide effective coaching and technical guidance, and communicate as necessary with all levels of management, customers, and subcontractors on the program team.

Strategic and Tactical Initiatives/Projects

• Track status, steering committee, report out status.

What We’re Looking For

• Required: Bachelor's Degree (Electrical, Mechanical, Controls).
• Advanced degree a plus.

Knowledge and Experience

• Minimum of 3-5 years of successful experience in a directly related field. Demonstrated leadership capabilities in current role. Previous mgt experience is not required.
• Advocates and recommends changes in processes and/or procedures to improve processes, projects, and teams.
• Anticipates trends, and problems and enthusiastically searches for resolutions.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.

Skills

• Excellent leadership, teamwork, influencing, mentoring, coaching, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent analytical, organization, and time management skills.
• Effective communication skills include demonstrated stand-up presentation skills, group facilitation, and effectively interacting with customers.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the 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 mínima supervision to include a mixture of remote and office environments leading a distributed workforce.

Travel up to 50% to the customer site, other Dematic offices, or ide