Order Engineering Lead

Baltimore Aircoil Company; Montevideo (MD); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 129,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

401k

Employee stock ownership plan

Annual bonus program

Job summary

Baltimore Aircoil Company is seeking an Engineering Lead to manage the order engineering team, coordinating bids, submittal drawings and front-end technical requests while balancing technical and managerial duties in a hybrid environment.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, 5+ years of experience, strong Excel and ERP experience, leadership of cross-functional teams, and the ability to drive on-time delivery and cost-effective designs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience.
• Intermediate Excel skills; advanced Excel preferred; moderate PowerPoint skills; ERP experience strongly preferred.
• Ability to accurately predict task durations and understand critical path analysis.
• Experience with fluid flow, heat transfer, and airflow.
• Familiarity with engineering selections for components and equipment.
• Ability to work with vendors and research technical information quickly.
• Ability to learn company software for analyzing products, BOMs, ratings.
• Proven written and oral communication, team facilitation, and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve Order Engineering processes.
• Develop tools to manage variation in Order Engineering.
• Coordinate customer-facing technical documentation requests.
• Coordinate upstream and downstream technical support.
• Manage flow of ETO unit orders to internal customers.
• Track KPIs to measure team performance.
• Set priorities and acquire resources to meet objectives.
• Ensure compliance of modeling rules in Autodesk Inventor.
• Approve designers’ work (where applicable) and ensure manufacturability and cost-effectiveness.
• Lead design efforts on multiple orders and ensure high-quality outputs.
• Maintain BOM structure consistency with project/order requirements and systems.
• Staff management: supervise daily designer work and coordinate across orders.
• Identify strengths of subordinates and support development.
• Motivate and train designers on BAC design systems, ERP, and drawing processes.
• Improve designers’ knowledge of existing products.

Skills

Excel proficiency

PowerPoint

ERP experience

Communication

Leadership

Vendor coordination

Technical research

Software learning

Schedule planning

Team motivation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

ERP system

Autodesk Inventor

Job description

The Engineering Lead will manage the order engineering team to support order processing, including quotation support (submittal drawing and other front end technical requests). This position is a hybrid of technical and managerial work, requiring coordination of orders and completion of a wide variety of tasks with minimal supervision, using a wide variety of skills.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS (Required)

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Years of Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience.
• Systems Experience: Intermediate Excel skills. Advanced Excel skills preferred. Moderate Power Point skills, advanced skills preferred; Experience working with an ERP system strongly preferred.
• Management Experience: Ability to accurately predict the duration of proposed tasks
• Management Experience: Thorough understanding of critical path analysis
• Technical Expertise: Experience with Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, Airflow
• Technical Expertise: Familiarity w/ engineering selections for components and equipment, such as fans, pumps, piping, etc.
• Technical Expertise: Ability to work w/ vendors for purchased parts
• Technical Expertise: Ability to quickly research and find technical information on the web, in textbooks and in journals
• Technical Expertise: Ability to quickly pick-up new company-specific software for analyzing all aspects of products, BOMs, ratings, etc.
• Communication Experience: Proven record in effective written and oral communication
• Leadership skills: Ability to effectively facilitate team meetings
• Leadership skills: Ability to work with a wide variety of people at different levels of the company
• Leadership skills: Ability to motivate others to prioritize work to support projects/orders.
• Leadership skills: Keeps excellent track of all open action items and ensures team members get necessary work completed.
• Leadership skills: Able to establish schedules and meet those schedules

NATURE & SCOPE

Reports To: Order Engineering Manager
Direct Reports: Product Engineers, Design Engineers & Designers
The Engineering Lead will work integrally with all Engineering teams. He/She will be expected to provide leadership, motivation, and coordination to the team.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Process Management:
• Manage and continuously improve Order Engineering processes.
• Develop tools to manage variation in Order Engineering.
• Manage requests for customer facing technical documentation.
• Coordinate upstream and downstream technical support.
• Manage the flow of ETO unit orders to internal customers.
• Track KPIs to measure team performance.
• Set priorities and acquire resources to meet objectives
• Ensure compliance of ‘best practice’ rules for modeling in Autodesk Inventor, including feature constraining, part modification, new part generation by starting with an existing part.
• For all designs except for structural or thermal systems (where an engineer is required for approval), full approval/rejection rights of designers’ work
• Work with designers to create designs that meet customer expectations, are manufacturable, and are cost-effective.
• Lead design efforts on multiple orders (most actual design work will be delegated) including proposing designs, sketching, or modeling concepts
• Ensure high-quality outputs from designers
• Ensure that BOM structure is consistent with project/order requirements/specification and with BAC order entry & production systems.
• Staff Management:
• Supervise daily designer work to ensure compliance with design rules, including documenting design decisions.
• Coordinate design efforts across multiple orders to support on time delivery.
• Identify strengths and areas of development of subordinates, and work with them to enhance strengths and improve in areas of development in accordance with BAC’s People Development Strategies.
• Motivate subordinates to work efficiently and productively.
• Promote culture of cooperation, training, continuous improvement, and having fun.
• Train designers on BAC design systems, ERP systems, drawing formats, drawing & BOM release processes, etc.
• Train designers on best design practices.
• Improve designers’ design knowledge of existing products.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Travel periodically to BAC manufacturing facilities to support quality initiatives, customer order builds, or personnel training.

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Working hours are the standard BAC 40 hours per week (8:30am-5:00pm with flexible start/finish times allowed)
• Travel, both domestic and international can be up to 10% of the time
• Periodic evening/weekend hours required, although can often be done from home with the use of a portable computer.
• Primarily Sedentary Activity in the office will be experienced; however periodic travel to BAC manufacturing facilities with assembly (medium work) is required.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to review 3D computer models and project documents.
• The worker will typically be subjected to only indoor conditions; however, on occasional trips to BAC manufacturing facilities, the worker may experience heat, cold, humidity, and noise.

BAC Hiring Compensation Range $75,300 - $129,100

• BAC offers a comprehensive benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401k, employee stock ownership plan, and more. Please see additional details on the BAC website atwww.Baltimoreaircoil.com.
• BAC Employees are eligible to participate in an annual bonus incentive program.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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