Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead manufacturing engineering activities supporting complex, highly engineered products and production operations. This role will oversee the development and implementation of manufacturing processes, documentation, tooling, and production methods while partnering closely with engineering, operations, quality, and supply chain teams.

The Engineering Manager will provide technical leadership in resolving production challenges, improving manufacturing processes, developing cost estimates, and supporting the introduction of new technologies and capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for all electronic manufacturing engineering development and implementation for production equipment such as circuit card assemblies, backplanes, cables, and harnesses. Establishes overall manufacturing work instructions and specifications to ensure compliance with industry and customer requirements.

• Develop cost estimates for circuit card assemblies, backplanes, cables, and harnesses. Standard labor time and costed bills of materials by evaluating customer documentation packages.
• Resolves technical problems encountered during the production process.
• Creates and maintains manufacturing visual aids and routings, bills of material, detailed assembly and inspection instructions, and visual aids as required to process manufacturing orders.
• Creates tooling and fixturing to facilitate production.
• Monitors the costs, schedules, and performance of major contracts.
• Reviews engineering ECO packages for signoff.
• Reviews, approves, and/or develops specifications for purchases.
• Reviews requests for quotation, ensuring information is a complete statement of work, quantity, and special instructions.
• Evaluates estimated cost versus actual cost of past production orders and corrects routing times and BOMs to reflect data accurately.
• Responsible for the technology roadmap for advanced electronics technology.

Minimum Requirements:

The successful candidate should possess the following qualifications:

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience, with no less than 6 years of experience in the electronics and/or electromechanical field, preferably in contract manufacturing.
• Complete understanding of drawings, parts lists, specifications, and engineering change notices.
• Circuit card assembly experience required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Basic math skills.

Resumes can be confidentially sent to View email address on click.appcast.io.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work and reside in the specified location. This position is not eligible for employer-sponsored work visas, now or in the future. Candidates requiring current or future sponsorship for employment authorization will not be considered.

This is a fully on-site position, and regular attendance at the designated work location is required.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations. GPAC (Growing People and Companies) is an award-winning search firm specializing in placing quality professionals within multiple industries across the United States since 1990. We are extremely competitive, client-focused and realize that our value is in our ability to deliver the right solutions at the right time.