Order Engineering Lead

Job Description

Job Description

POSITION PURPOSE

The Engineering Lead will manage the order engineering team to support order processing, including quotation support (submittal drawing and other front end technical requests). This position is a hybrid of technical and managerial work, requiring coordination of orders and completion of a wide variety of tasks with minimal supervision, using a wide variety of skills.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS (Required)
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Years of Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience.
• Systems Experience: Intermediate Excel skills. Advanced Excel skills preferred. Moderate Power Point skills, advanced skills preferred; Experience working with an ERP system strongly preferred.

• Management Experience:
o Ability to accurately predict the duration of proposed tasks
o Thorough understanding of critical path analysis

• Technical Expertise:
o Experience with Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, Airflow
o Familiarity w/ engineering selections for components and equipment, such as fans, pumps, piping, etc.
o Ability to work w/ vendors for purchased parts
o Ability to quickly research and find technical information on the web, in textbooks and in journals
o Ability to quickly pick-up new company-specific software for analyzing all aspects of products, BOMs, ratings, etc.
• Communication Experience: Proven record in effective written and oral communication

• Leadership skills:
o Ability to effectively facilitate team meetings
o Ability to work with a wide variety of people at different levels of the company
o Ability to motivate others to prioritize work to support projects/orders.
o Keeps excellent track of all open action items and ensures team members get
necessary work completed.
o Able to establish schedules and meet those schedules

NATURE & SCOPE

Reports To: Order Engineering Manager
Direct Reports: Product Engineers, Design Engineers & Designers
The Engineering Lead will work integrally with all Engineering teams. He/She will be expected to provide leadership, motivation, and coordination to the team. 

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
It is expected that the Team Lead will be responsible for the following:
Process Management:
o Manage and continuously improve Order Engineering processes.
o Develop tools to manage variation in Order Engineering.
o Manage requests for customer facing technical documentation.
o Coordinate upstream and downstream technical support.
o Manage the flow of ETO unit orders to internal customers.
o Track KPIs to measure team performance.
o Set priorities and acquire resources to meet objectives
o Ensure compliance of ‘best practice’ rules for modeling in Autodesk Inventor, including feature constraining, part modification, new part generation by starting with an existing part.
o For all designs except for structural or thermal systems (where an engineer is required for approval), full approval/rejection rights of designers’ work
o Work with designers to create designs that meet customer expectations, are
manufacturable, and are cost-effective.
o Lead design efforts on multiple orders (most actual design work will be delegated) including proposing designs, sketching, or modeling concepts
o Ensure high-quality outputs from designers
o Ensure that BOM structure is consistent with project/order requirements/specification and with BAC order entry & production systems.

Staff Management:
o Supervise daily designer work to ensure compliance with design rules, including documenting design decisions.
o Coordinate design efforts across multiple orders to support on time delivery.
o Identify strengths and areas of development of subordinates, and work with them to enhance strengths and improve in areas of development in accordance with BAC’s People Development Strategies.
o Motivate subordinates to work efficiently and productively.
o Promote culture of cooperation, training, continuous improvement, and having fun.
o Train designers on BAC design systems, ERP systems, drawing formats, drawing & BOM release processes, etc.
o Train designers on best design practices.
o Improve designers’ design knowledge of existing products.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Travel periodically to BAC manufacturing facilities to support quality initiatives, customer order builds, or personnel training.

WORKING CONDITIONS
• Working hours are the standard BAC 40 hours per week (8:30am-5:00pm with flexible start/finish times allowed)
• Travel, both domestic and international can be up to 10% of the time
• Periodic evening/weekend hours required, although can often be done from home with the use of a portable computer.
• Primarily Sedentary Activity in the office will be experienced; however periodic travel to BAC manufacturing facilities with assembly (medium work) is required.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to review 3D computer models and project documents.
• The worker will typically be subjected to only indoor conditions; however, on occasional trips to BAC manufacturing facilities, the worker may experience heat, cold, humidity, and noise.

 

BAC Hiring Compensation Range $75,300 - $129,100 

BAC offers a comprehensive benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401k, employee stock ownership plan, and more. Please see additional details on the BAC website at 

BAC Employees are eligible to participate in an annual bonus incentive program.