Site Engineering Manager

Company Description

ITW Description:

Founded in 1912, ITW (NYSE: ITW) is a global industrial company centered on a differentiated and proprietary business model. The company’s seven industry-leading segments leverage the ITW Business Model to generate solid growth with best-in-class margins and returns in markets where highly innovative, customer-focused solutions are required. ITW’s more than 46,000 dedicated colleagues around the world thrive in our decentralized, entrepreneurial culture. In 2022, the company achieved revenues of $15.9 billion, with roughly half coming from outside North America. To learn more, please visit www.itw.com.

Division Description:

ITW Electronics Assembly Equipment (EAE) Division is made up of four brands strongly recognized by Contract Manufacturers and OEMs in the Electronics and Industrial Markets.  The Division designs, develops, manufactures, and markets capital equipment primarily used in the assembly process of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and other industrial applications. In 2022 the Division had revenues above $225M and is positioned for above market rates of growth. For more information visit: www.itweae.com

Job Description

The site engineering manager maintains overall responsibilities of departmental budget, capital appropriations, resource capacity, effective deployment, and proper follow throughs. He/she drives performance excellence through setting of annual performance goals and objectives and conducting periodic and annual performance reviews of the team members. As a key people leader of the global engineering organization, he/she actively coaches/mentors team members to enable career/professional growth.  The site engineering manager drives functional excellence to ensure team members maintain proper level of technical proficiency, competency and are provided with ample continuous learning, growth opportunities. He/she promotes global, cross-functional communication, collaboration to maximize productivity of the team in product development/support/sustaining activities. He/she provides formal periodic updates to senior management and other key Research & Development personnel.

Job Responsibilities:

• Maintains overall site responsibility – people, engineering process, infrastructure/logistics, compliance, budget.
• Allocates resource, tracks status, and updates as appropriate.
• Promotes functional excellence – training, communication, collaboration.
• Acts as a coach/mentor to enable career progression, growth, and continuous development.
• Performs hiring, performance management, and actions to ensure retention.
• Maintain alignment on business priority with global, cross-functional teams.
• Ensures performance excellence through goals/objectives setting, periodic reviews, annual evaluation, and appropriate follow-through actions.
• Maintains liaison with global engineering and cross-functional teams.
• Drives quality of design, development, testing to ensure product development excellence. Rigorously follows design review process to ensure high quality outcomes.
• Applies technical knowledge, expertise to provide recommendations in product development, maintenance, and application configurations.
• Participates in projects reviews and ensures timely completion of relevant tasks/activities to meet project timeline and budget.
• Creates culture, environment of empowerment, accountability, and ownership to foster career, professional growth of team members.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience:

• Strong leadership qualities including initiative, communications, team leadership, training, coaching, and mentoring. 
• Experience with hiring and building a cohesive team in a technical environment as well as developing technical personnel through their career paths, both in program management and technical areas.
• Demonstrated capability of leading engineering team.
• Effective performance management skills.
• Demonstrable experience in preparing and managing department budget.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven problem definition, root cause analysis, problem solving experience (technical, non-technical issues).
• Adaptive/situational leadership skills.
• Influencing, negotiation and conflict management skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Project management skills including the ability to plan, organize and conduct technical programs within the timeline and financial constraints.
• Formal training and experience in the management of technical projects that include mechanical, electrical, software development.
• Ability to dev