Engineering Manager

Job Description

Job Description

About Us

Stellar Industries is a leading manufacturer of direct bond copper and thin film ceramic substrates. We are a supplier to solve critical thermal challenges in the Aerospace, Photonics, Telecommunications, and Commercial industries. Stellar Industries is part of the TRUMPF Group.

About the Role …

The Engineering Manager leads Stellar Industries’ Engineering Department. Our manufacturing technologies range from high-temperature ceramic and metallurgic treatments, liquid resist and dry film photolithography, wet chemical etching and cleaning and electrolytic plating to various CNC controlled high-precision machining operations. The Engineering Department establishes new, maintains, and continuously improves Stellar’s existing production processes. Processing uptime and yield are crucial to support manufacturing in a high-mix to mid-volume business model. The Engineering Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Department, as well as the technical and professional development of the engineering team.

What You Get to Do …

• Manage the day-to-day operation of the production engineering organization
• Responsible for maintaining the production capabilities to support yield, scrap value, and on-time delivery goals
• Establish processing time, throughput, and yield standards to support production costing
• Implement and maintain process control tools, such as SPC
• Lead the exception responses, including the engineering aspects of NCRs and CARs
• Identify and lead yield improvement and scrap reduction initiatives
• Develop and maintain product design guidelines based on process capabilities
• Lead the manufacturing introduction of new processes, production, and metrology equipment
• In cooperation with the Quality Department, establish and follow processes for engineering change management
• In cooperation with other Departments, develop capital equipment roadmap, and plan manufacturing equipment acquisition and commissioning
• Lead engineering team to excel, determine the need for, and execute staff training and talent development
• Provide regular status updates to management

What You Bring to the Position …

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant Engineering or Science Discipline, for example, Chemical Engineering or Materials Engineering
• Ten or more years of experience as a practicing engineer. Three or more years’ experience managing and developing an engineering team.
• Track record of leading engineering teams to meet goals in a production environment
• Exceptional ability to communicate verbally and in writing with a wide variety of customers, vendors, and staff.
• Broad knowledge of ceramics and metal materials and processing, wet chemical etching and cleaning, thermal processing, photolithography, and related metrology methodologies.
• Expert knowledge in at least one of the disciplines above.
• US Citizenship or Immigration Status compatible with ITAR and EAR compliance.

What We Offer …

• Employees (and their families) are eligible to participate in the company's medical, dental, employer paid vision, and employer paid basic life insurance and disability Insurance.
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 4-Day workweek (Monday – Thursday)
• For informational purposes only, the range for annual base salary for this role is $125,000 to $165,000 US Dollar (USD), Salaried based on a variety of factors. For informational purposes only, this role is eligible to participate in the Company’s Bonus Plan based on the Company’s performance in the prior fiscal year.
• Employees will initially accrue annually 128 hours of paid time off.
• Employees are eligible to enroll in the Company’s 401(k) plan.