Manager, Engineering

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Your Opportunity: Taylor Corporation is looking for an Engineering Manager.

Your Responsibilities:

Accountability/Relationship Management:

* Collaborate with business unit leaders, peers, and stakeholder teams across the enterprise to identify and prioritize opportunities to introduce efficiencies through machine design automation.
* Drive process integration with key partner teams across the enterprise to execute a multi-year roadmap for automation throughout the organization; including areas to invest in machines, processes and technology demonstrating the opportunity automation benefits the organization.
* Direct the development of new concepts from the initial design research and development into feasibility studies to determine if concepts are capable of functioning as intended.
* Drive resource capacity and demand planning for the engineering team to align the availability of staff with the needs of the enterprise.
* Interface directly with management, clients, internal project teams, multiple engineering disciplines, functional leaders, subcontractors, and support personnel to report progress, costs, schedule and risks.

Innovation/Strategic Thinking:

* Seek new opportunities, methods, trends, capabilities, and designs for the advancement of the automation program and align those to business benefits including the Return on Investment (ROI).
* Maintain a strong understanding of automation best practices, collaborating with the operations organization in the formation of strategic approaches to exploit technology, skills and methods driving significant impact to the bottom line through facility process improvements.
* Guide the conceptualization of new methodologies, materials, automated machine technology and processes.

Quality and Performance Management:

* Design and deploy an Automation Center of Excellence strategy and drive it with a continuous improvement mentality to ensure optimization and governance needed to deliver automation at scale.
* Define and adopt quality standards that hold the team accountable for meeting the standards through quantitative measures.
* Demonstrate competence with relevant project management, organization, and collaboration techniques to provide clarity of roles and expectations to drive overall project quality and outcomes.
* Oversee the creation of standard operating procedures and maintenance documentation throughout all phases of machine design and commissioning.

Organizational Development:

* Drive a fun, high-performing work culture aligned with Taylor's Guiding Principles, and provide leadership for the engineering team to grow, thrive and deliver results to the business.
* Lead the engineering team through resource planning, project planning, budgeting, career development and recruitment of future talent.
* Coach, support, and delegate to empower the team.
* Get "hands on" when appropriate to both serve as model for expected performance and to remove obstacles impeding the team.

Project Management:

* Define and manage project schedule workflows to drive opportunity intake, prioritization, and delivery to keep all stakeholders informed throughout and measure the results.
* Manage projects by monitoring risks as they become known and prepare mitigation plans for each of these risks.
* Facilitate project meetings to manage the documentation and communication needs for the team.
* Forecast resource and skill set needs and track spending for the projects.
* Responsible for overall project performance as well as managing the scope, schedule, budget, and safety performance including activities sub-contracted.
* Ensure project costs, cash flow timing, schedules, scope, and metrics are managed, including the development of recovery plans, to stay within approved limits and track Return on Investment (ROI)

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