About the Role
The Senior Manager, Engineering is responsible for managing mechanical engineers and designers, providing strategy, vision, and direction to engineering staff. This role ensures creative, efficient, and fast-track development while fostering personal and staff growth, operating with minimal supervision.
Responsibilities
- Develop, implement, maintain, and communicate departmental strategy aligned with business unit initiatives.
- Develop, implement, maintain, and communicate departmental plans, including resource planning, staff development, and budget preparation.
- Plan Technology Management projects, defining scope, systems, products, strategies, tactics, risks, schedules, resources, budgets, and returns.
- Plan PDI interdepartmental team projects, defining scope, systems, products, strategies, tactics, risks, schedules, resources, budgets, and returns.
- Train, mentor, and facilitate staff to ensure opportunities for personal development and advancement.
- Communicate corporate and business unit vision and strategic initiatives to staff.
- Participate regularly as a team member or team leader.
- Perform administrative duties including schedule, attendance, timesheet, and budget monitoring.
- Develop and implement key processes and process improvements.
- Coordinate team activities and tasks, including with vendors.
- Research applications, technologies, and design alternatives for products based on market requirements.
- Provide conceptual and detailed designs of a complex nature.
- Verify and validate design and project objectives with customers and the business unit.
- Manage interviewing, hiring, planning, assigning, directing work, appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining employees, and resolving complaints.
- Directly manage 1-15 employees.
Requirements
- Must have experience managing and leading engineering teams.
- Strong background in engineering techniques and application required.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, employees, and the general public.
- Must have the ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to work in a highly confidential work environment.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Must be proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
- Ability to reduce complex engineering problems into simplified form and educate others.
- Strong knowledge of patent processes, application, and interpretation.
- Ability to use a wide application of engineering principles, theories, and concepts, with a working knowledge of other related disciplines.
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 8 years’ experience managing a product development engineering team
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree (BS) in Engineering required
- Masters degree preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000.00 - $170,000.00 per year
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance programs
- 401K plans with employer-matching contributions
- Tuition reimbursement
- PTO
- Paid holidays
- Volunteer time off
About the Company
- Leviton develops thoughtful solutions that help make its customers' lives easier, safer, more efficient, and more productive.
- We recognize that our people are our greatest asset.
- We ASK questions, EMBRACE challenges, SEEK new perspectives, and ANTICIPATE what comes next.
- It's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly changing world.
Equal Opportunity
- Leviton is an EEO/AA Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
