Special Engineering Lead
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Job Description
Why join us
Geiger furnishes the modern office with beautiful solutions for private offices conference rooms collaborative spaces and more. Geiger designs play an important role in creating environments where people want to bespaces that stimulate creative and analytical thinking strengthen organizational culture and communicate trust to clients and visitors.
Our purpose is to design for the good of humankind. Its the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of Geiger means being a part of something larger than your work team or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows Geiger to support causes that align with our values so we can build a more sustainable equitable and beautiful future for everyone.
GENERAL PURPOSE
- Leads and manages all functions relating to the engineering of special product including product quality reliability cost and continuous improvement.
- Achieves results through strong leadership and effective planning organizing implementation and .
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Applies sound project management and engineering principles. May develop and manage project schedules expenses and other resources assigned to bring large projects in on time and within budget.
- Cultivates a culture that is customer focused collaborative creative and embraces change.
- Ensure the teams performance and accountability to quality and output metrics.
- Identifies and solves department problems that cause poor quality or reduce efficiency.
- Collaborates with internal partners and corporate quality teams to ensure the identification of quality issues and their root causes and designs and implements solutions.
- Ensures clear written and verbal communications and documentation of commitments by the Specials Engineering team.
- Ensures that the Specials Engineering team is meeting customer needs internal and external by delivering the best solutions possible in a timely manner with the highest levels of professionalism.
- Ensures that the Specials Engineering team maintains extensive knowledge of all products and their ability to modify them.
- Establishes exceptional working relationships with internal and external business partners to include product engineering product application specialists and purchasing product management process engineering manufacturing operations product development maintenance engineering and field contacts.
- Coaches and mentors members of the Specials Engineering work team. May have direct management responsibilities over the Specials Engineering team members.
- Manages the integrity of the Specials Engineering databases through regular maintenance as prompted by changes or discontinuations.
- Manages time well sets appropriate priorities and meets deadlines.
- Motivates and inspires Specials Engineering team members to improve processes through creativity problem solving and learning accomplished through setting expectations coaching and encouragement.
- Participates in and/or manages crossfunctional teams or projects related to nonstandard products.
- Tracks reports and achieves all target performance metrics for Specials Engineering.
- Also uses tools to analyze trends financial metrics sales & order data and compiles into reports with recommendations as needed.
- Works with internal contacts to ensure department stays on the leading edge of technology.
- Performs additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.
QUALIFICATIONS
- To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education/Experience
- Bachelors degree in engineering design facilities or business OR equivalent professional experience.
- 5 years of experience in the Contract Office Furniture business working in product specification or engineering is preferred.
Skills and Abilities
- Contract case goods product knowledge is preferred.
- Proven and recognized leadership ability.
- Proven ability to manage the workload goal setting and performance planning of a professional team.
- Outstanding communication skills proven problem solving facilitation and conflict management skills.
- Proven competency in computer skills financial analysis training project management and specification translation.
- Must be a strategic thinker with a strong sense of integrity and collaboration.
- Customer focusedeach action / strategy considers the impact on the customer.
- Must be an extremely strong team player / leader.
- Comfortable and poised decisive and able to effectively interpret policies and procedures.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively use office automation communication software and tools currently used in the Herman Miller office environment.
Who We Hire
Simply put we hire everyone. Geiger is comprised of people of all abilities gender identities and expressions ages ethnicities sexual orientations veterans from every branch of military service and more. Here you can bring your whole self to work. Were committed to equal opportunity employment including veterans and people with disabilities.
MillerKnoll complies with applicable disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact MillerKnoll Talent Acquisition at .
Employment Type
Full-Time
