Website Blackbook Executive
A client of ours, specialising in the design & manufacturing of Electro-Mechanical products is hiring an experienced Engineering Manager to take complete ownership of their engineering function.
The Company
Our client has engaged Blackbook Executive to recruit a business-critical position as the Engineering Manager for Mechanical Systems. This position has arisen due to the evolving nature of the business and a need to become a more sophisticated and scalable end-to-end engineered solutions operation.
This organisation is seeking a Head of Engineering capable of delivering a standardised and simplified, highly streamlined approach to product design; ensuring designs are optimised and accurately delivered to manufacturing. The Head of Engineering will have the ability to engage and drive the current team in order to optimise their skill base and improve the overall team dynamic.
The Role
Reporting into the Director of Product, your responsibilities will include:
- Complete ownership over the engineering design team with full oversight over day to day direction and long-term departmental resource planning and management.
- This position will have accountability over the entire end-to-end design process, ensuring the current engineering team has a standardised approach to delivering product designs into manufacturing.
- Identifying CI opportunities to implement new structures, tools and systems in order for the engineering team to complete designs in a more efficient manner.
- Reviewing and optimising current documentation and systems related to engineering design, facilitating changes to process in a structured and simplistic way where necessary.
- Providing ongoing training and development plans for the group of engineering talent.
- Working with the broader senior leadership team to provide continuity across the entire engineered solution to customer.
Your Background
- Bachelors in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering as preferred but open to other disciplines.
- Minimum 10 years’ experience within electro-mechanical product manufacturing industry.
- Minimum 10 years’ management experience.
- Must be an energetic and patient individual with the proven ability of driving improvements within an engineering team.
- Extensive knowledge of engineering practices and principles as well as understanding scientific methods of problem solving.
- Must have exceptional communication skills with the ability to work cross functionally with various departments and stakeholders involved in the product design process.
- Ideally this person will come with a Continuous Improvement focus and an openness towards new technologies and new methods of driving results.
- Capable of researching, analyzing, and providing positive input into solution design, business process impacts, and/or technologies used to provide the solution.
- Must be competent with CAD systems along with processes – DFA, DFM, FMEA, and FEA.
What’s On Offer?
The ideal person will be given complete autonomy and ownership over the engineering group’s growth journey. Broadly speaking this business is scaling for expansion, this role will be seen as a key part of this journey and the right person will be seen as a figure head for growth and development of the wider team.
If this opportunity is of interest, please APPLY, or contact Clinton Holmes at Blackbook Executive on 03 9823 7402 for a confidential discussion.
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