Systems Designer/Engineer

Price Engineering; Town of Hartland (WI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Price Engineering, a SunSource company, seeks an Engineering Leader to guide hydraulic and electrical system projects, mentor staff, and elevate engineering standards.

You will collaborate with design, manufacturing, and sales to define system requirements, drive cost estimating, and manage team allocation for successful project delivery.

Qualifications

• Education, 2-year engineering degree minimum.
• Business and or leadership training preferred.
• 3–5 years as Application Engineer and Engineering Manager (fluid power, motion control automation, and/or power transmission).

Responsibilities

• Lead Engineering Leadership: develop and mentor engineering team members.
• Collaborate with hydraulic system designers on circuit and system design approvals.
• Integrate hydraulic and electric systems with the team.
• Support Wig #1 call activity to connect engineers to customers/opportunities.
• Support Wig #2 to build the engineering team and lead KPI improvements.
• Oversee team allocation, time reporting, and cost estimating for projects.
• Define system requirements and prepare statements of work for new industrial projects.
• Coordinate with manufacturing to establish standard labor costs for assembly.
• Lead continuous improvements to standard power system products.

Skills

Accountability

Integrity

Interpersonal Relationships

Energy

Drive for Results

Coaching

Competitive

Customer Focus

Planning and Organizing

Negotiation

Technical Expertise

Education

2‑year engineering degree

Job description

Price Engineering, a SunSource company, specializes in engineered custom products and solutions through engineering resource management, research, planning and development in the areas of hydraulics, pneumatics, automation and electrical systems. www.priceeng.com

Responsibilities

• Engineering Leadership
  • Work with the hydraulic system designers on developing and approving circuit and system design for projects
  • Work with the hydraulic systems team on integration of hydraulic and electric systems
  • Develop and mentor engineering team members
  • Support Wig #1 call activity to connect engineering team members to key customers/opportunities
  • Support Wig #2 effort to help build the engineering team
  • Help lead key performance improvement activities in the engineering team
  • Work with the hydraulic system designers on their weekly priorities
  • Manage entire team allocation and reporting of time for project design and support
  • Work with entire team on hydraulic system cost estimating and final statement of work processes
  • Work with sales team to adequately identify system requirements and statement of work for new Industrial system projects
  • Work closely with Manufacturing to develop standard labor costs for assembly activities
  • Work closely with purchasing to identify standard suppliers, components, and costs
  • Lead efforts for continuous improvements to the designs of standard power system products
• Engineering Best Practice
  • Work with other engineering groups within the organization to help drive the following:
  • Drive engineering standards - prints, datasheets, and statement of work
  • Engineering tools - Hydraw, MDtools, PDM…etc
  • Documentation / File Storage Locations
  • Document naming conventions
• Communication
  • Be clear when communicating and have clear directives
  • Encourage the team members to share information. Emphasize the importance of each team member's contribution and demonstrate how all of their jobs operate together to move the entire team closer to its goal

General Education & Experience

• Education, 2-year engineering degree minimum. Business and or leadership training preferred
• Experience, 3-5 year’s as Application Engineer and Engineering Manager (fluid power, motion control automation, and/or power transmission)

Key Competencies

• Accountability: Demonstrates an understanding of the link between one’s own job responsibilities and overall organizational goals and needs, and performs one’s job with the broader goals in mind.
• Integrity: Acts in an honest and trustworthy manner based on personal accountability and a moral conviction to do the right thing.
• Interpersonal Relationships: Thinks carefully about the likely effect on others of one’s words, actions, appearance and mode of behavior. Maintains stable performance and emotional control when faced with opposition, pressure, hostility from others and/or stressful conditions.
• Energy: Consistently maintaining a high activity or productivity level; sustaining long work hours.
• Drive for Results: Demonstrates concern for achieving or surpassing results against an internal or external standard of excellence, shows a passion for improving the delivery of services with a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Coaching: Works to improve and reinforce performance of others. Facilitates their skill development by providing clear, behaviorally specific performance feedback and making or eliciting specific suggestions for improvement in a manner that builds confidence and maintains self-esteem.
• Competitive: To outperform others who are selling goods or services in the same market. Does things that no one has requested that will improve or enhance products and services, avid problems, or develop entrepreneurial opportunities.
• Customer Focus: Demonstrates concern for meeting internal and external customers’ needs in a manner that provides satisfaction for the customer. ("Customers" can be co-workers, peers or management as well as external consumers of a service.)
• Planning and Organizing: Establishes a systematic course of action for self or others to ensure accomplishment of a specific objective. Sets priorities, goals and timetables to achieve maximum productivity.
• Negotiation: Effectively exploring alternatives and positions to reach outcomes that gain all parties’ support and acceptance.
• Technical Expertise: Applies and improves extensive or in-depth specialized knowledge, skills and judgment to accomplish a result or to serve one’s “customers” effectively. (Customers can be co-workers, peers or management as well as external consumers of a service.)

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