Engineering Tooling and Design Manager - Cold Forming / Fasteners Job at Fulton River Partners, Addison, IL

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  • Fulton River Partners
  • Addison, IL

Job Description

Fulton River Partners is excited to be working with a client based west of Chicago to hire an Engineering Manager to focus on both design and tooling for their Fasteners business.

We are open to a number of different types of backgrounds, however this role REQUIRES Cold Forming/Cold Heading experience.

Job Duties:

• Manages and coordinates the activities of the engineering department.

• Discovers potential problems, solves problems, implements changes, and continuously monitors progress.

• Attends production meetings on a regular basis for status updates and product launches.

• Leads quoting process

• Oversees the development of Engineering Masters.

• Attends and participates in on-site client visits.

• Budget responsibilities for engineering department including all software seats, training, travel, and identifying new opportunities for continuous improvement in operations.

• Develops and monitors policies and procedures for department.

• Develops and presents updates in management meetings, such as management review meetings.

• Directs department in scheduling workload and status of available hours.

• Maintains and enforces compliance of directory structure.

• Determines needs and cross-trains all employees to ensure backup in all areas.

• Monitors programming machining times to quoted times.

• Effectively and proactively manages continuous improvement on existing programs.

• Sets goals for each employee and monitors their activity.

• Responsible for employee development, including programming skills, problem solving, teamwork,

and identifying team members for program management projects.

• Facilitates good working relationships among subordinates and across all departments.

• Monitors creation of set-up and tear-down documentation.

• First line of engineering assistance for operations.

• Responsible for all project schedules and projects within the department.

• Conducts regular staff meetings and one on ones with staff.

• Works with other functional areas (Sales, Purchasing, Manufacturing, etc.) to obtain cooperation,

agreement or assistance as required to get the job done correctly within budget and on time.

• Responsible for Performance Management, including selection, training, employee development,

performance reviews, and disciplinary action.

• Support manufacturing process in varying capacities, as required.

Skills and Abilities:

• Must have tool design experience with cold header machines and fasteners.

• Hands on in manufacturing environment

• Strong personnel leadership skills leading a team while developing leaders within the dept.

• Strong communication and presentation skills up and down the organization.

• Project Management skills to monitor and manage programs to meet internal and customer need

dates.

• Good organizational skills, ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize in a fast-paced

environment.

• Strong problem solving, decision making and process improvement skills.

• Ability to develop and implement key engineering metrics to monitor dept. performance and ID gaps.

• Must be an analytical thinker to think outside the box to come up with solutions.

• Must be a team player that can work x functionally within the organization to come up with solutions.

• Knowledge of manufacturing process

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, CAD (solid works) – knowledgeable with CAM software (AutoCAD Part

Maker, SurfCam, Mastercam, etc.)

• Must be able to develop and modify work instructions for the Mfg. engineering dept. along with the

programming team.

• Ability to multitask and prioritize needs in a fast-paced environment

• Willing to do other things as required.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, engineering technology or similar degree – master’s degree is a plus.

• Must have experience in the production of fasteners.

• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a manufacturing environment, specifically in metal working,

automotive or other high tolerance industry required

• Five (5+) years’ experience leading a small group of technical engineers.

• Experience with working with customers on a technical basis – DFM, DFA, blueprint reviews, model

reviews, routing development, etc.

• Strong experience in 3D Cad Modeling

• Strong experience with machining metal background

• Project management and organizational skills preferred.

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