Engineering Manager
At a glance
Manager-level Engineering Leadership role at KION Group. Mississauga · CA$75,000–CA$165,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Coach project engineers and guide their work toward successful team and project outcomes
- Keep projects on track for quality, schedule and cost, addressing risks before they disrupt delivery
- Update management and peers on project status, while maintaining monthly forecasts and project and department budgets
- Set project staffing, balance team workloads and review technical, cost and schedule risks before execution begins
- Join sales reviews, identify customer expectations and project risks, and recommend process improvements
What you bring
- A degree in electrical, mechanical or another engineering field
- At least five years leading engineering teams or managing engineering work
- You can solve complex problems with cost-conscious options and communicate effectively with customers and colleagues
- You can work independently with little oversight across remote, office and customer-site settings
Who this fits
This role suits an engineering leader who can coach people while overseeing project delivery, budgets, staffing and customer-facing reviews. Expect travel of about ten percent to customer or Dematic locations.
From the employer
We offer:
What We Offer:
- Career Development
- Competitive Compensation and Benefits
- Pay Transparency
- Global Opportunities
Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer/
Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $75,000 - $165,000 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.
Tasks and Qualifications:
What You Will Do In This Role:
- Provide coaching and guidance to help ensure team member and project success
- Ensure project targets are met for quality, on-time delivery, and cost. Anticipate issues and address proactively
- Provide regular reporting of project performance and status to management and peers
- Maintain accurate monthly forecasting across assigned projects
- Proactively manage direct project budgets and indirect department budgets
- Provide input to annual budget regarding staffing, indirect spending, etc
- Attend project turnovers and assess projects for technical, cost, and schedule risks prior to execution team deployment
- Make project staffing decisions based on team skills, project priorities, and customer visibility
- Maintain utilization for individual contributors and coordinate level-loading of team members
- Participate in pre-sale technical reviews with Sales and Solution Development teams
- Look for opportunity to reduce project risks and develop awareness of customer expectations and demands
- Analyzes and understands impact of decisions on business operations
- Appraise and recommend changes in current processes or procedures
- Effectively recruit, on-board, and integrate new hires into the Project Engineering
What We Are Looking For:
- BS in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related field of engineering
- At least (5) years of demonstrated Engineering Management and/or people leadership
- At least (8) years of material handling and/or logistics automation industry or related experience preferred
- Ability to work individually and lead with minimal supervision in remote, office, and customer site environments
- Knowledge of CAD design software including AutoCAD is a plus
- Knowledge of PLCs including Allen-Bradley and/or Rockwell a plus.
- Ability to solve complex problems and recommend cost-effective solutions
- Proven communications skills, collaboration, flexibility, and willingness to lead and work as part of a team of solution-oriented professionals
- Demonstrated presentation skills, group facilitation, and ability to effectively interact with customers
- Excellent leadership, teamwork, influencing, and interpersonal skills
- Excellent organizational, analytical, reasoning, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, and maintaining composure
- Travel approximately 10% to Customer or Dematic locations
- Positively represent the Engineering organization and Dematic with both internal and external Customers
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