Engineering Manager: Design & Delivery Leader

CMCO Brasil; Menomonee Falls (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Columbus McKinnon in Menomonee Falls, WI, seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the design function and drive safe, on-time, and cost-effective customer-specific engineered solutions from order handoff through production release and shipment support.

You will partner with Operations, Project Management, Customer Service, Sales, Quality, Materials, and Product Management to translate requirements into manufacturable designs and improve lead times, quality, and visibility of engineering status.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical field.
• Seven+ years of progressive engineering experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience leading engineers or other technical professionals.
• Experience with design controls, engineering changes, configuration management, and release of technical documentation.
• Experience supporting manufactured industrial products in a customer-configured or engineer-to-order environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering organization; establish clear expectations, documented standard work, technical training, cross-training, accountability, and succession plans.
• Prioritize, schedule, and assign engineering work based on customer commitments, project complexity, available capacity, technical risk, and production needs.
• Own the design execution process from order handoff and requirements clarification through design, review, approval, release, and production support.
• Establish capacity planning and visual management practices that identify workload constraints, competing priorities, schedule risk, and recovery actions before customer commitments are missed.
• Drive measurable improvement in engineering lead time, on-time completion, first-pass quality, rework, engineering changes, and customer response time.
• Drive value engineering and design-to-cost activities that reduce material, labor, complexity, and lifecycle cost without compromising safety, quality, performance, or customer requirements.
• Ensure customer and application requirements are translated into complete, accurate, safe, and manufacturable drawings, bills of material, specifications, calculations, and technical documentation.
• Maintain disciplined technical review and design verification practices appropriate to project complexity and risk; ensure issues and lessons learned are incorporated into standards and future designs.
• Provide technical direction and escalation support for complex applications, design questions, production issues, field concerns, and customer-specific requirements.
• Own engineering change and release discipline for designs, including accurate configuration, revision control, documentation, approvals, and timely communication to affected functions.
• Partner with Operations and Manufacturing Engineering to improve design for manufacturability, assembly, test, service, and cost while reducing downstream disruption and non-value-added work.
• Partner with Project Management, Customer Service, and Sales to clarify scope, assumptions, deliverables, technical risks, and timing for customer orders and changes.
• Support root cause and corrective action for design-related quality issues, production failures, warranty concerns, and late deliveries; verify corrective actions are effective and sustained.
• Develop and maintain engineering standards, templates, tools, workflows, and knowledge-management practices that improve consistency, speed, and traceability.
• Use data and structured problem solving to identify trends, prioritize improvement work, and communicate performance, constraints, and countermeasures to site and business leadership.
• Prepare and manage departmental objectives, staffing plans, training plans, and budget inputs; make effective use of internal and external engineering resources.
• Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with company policies and applicable laws, including hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance management, recognition, and issue resolution.
• Perform other duties and lead special projects as assigned.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Project management

Cross-functional teamwork

Lean Kaizen

DFM

CAD/PLM

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

ERP systems

CAD/PLM software

Job description

Columbus McKinnon in Menomonee Falls, WI, seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the design function and drive safe, on-time, and cost-effective customer-specific engineered solutions from order handoff through production release and shipment support.

You will partner with Operations, Project Management, Customer Service, Sales, Quality, Materials, and Product Management to translate requirements into manufacturable designs and improve lead times, quality, and visibility of engineering status.