Mechanical Engineering Manager

Job description

Essential Functions/Major Responsibilities: Provide leadership, coaching, guidance, mentoring, training, and performance management to ensure retention, growth and development of mechanical engineering team members and direct reports. Provide insights and ideas to enhance performance outcomes. Mentor and coach new mechanical engineers on the best-known methods (BKM) and design practices. Ensure mechanical engineering projects and tasks are done to company standards, delivered on time and to the schedule with completed documentation. Review designs to ensure quality, cost and tolerances adherence to the system and customer requirements and specifications. Review design for manufacturing (DFM) for Asia manufacturing sites. Oversee, develop, and streamline ME processes to ensure that MEs apply best practices in designs, design reviews, engineering analysis, and release documentation. Provide support, open communication channel, and mentorship to the ME team. Communicate to direct reports and align staff on goals, business objectives and priorities. Evaluate all project requirements, work with Project Managers on project scope, and provide ME staff effectively utilizing project managem...