Engineering Manager

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Job Summary

Job Description

Shift: 1st shift

Days of Work: Monday Friday

Work Hours: 8:00am to 5:00 pm

Work Location: On-site (North Mankato MN)

Starting Salary: $100300 to $150500 Annually

Pay Frequency: Bi-Weekly

At Nidec we prioritize our teams well-being and success. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support you both personally and professionally. These are the great benefits we offer with additional perks and programs available to enhance your overall experience with us.

• Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary with additional bonus opportunities.

• Health and Wellness: Comprehensive medical dental vision and disability coverage effective from your first day.

• Retirement Savings: 401(k) plan with a best-in-class company match of 100% on the employees first 6% with an additional 3% employer contribution to support your financial future.

• Work-Life Balance: Generous time off package including PTO and holidays.

• Education Assistance: Tuition reimbursement and continuous learning opportunities to support your professional growth.

Position Objective:

Responsible for building and leading a team of technicians and engineers of various levels to carry out tasks and projects in support of business objectives. Must execute a defined team strategy through effective leadership consistent and reliable delivery and continuous improvement of methods within the assigned scope.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Ownership of team KPIs and performance metrics management of team time and effort prioritization to support achieving management defined KPIs and metrics.

• Lead and delegate cost-reduction project activity schedule and prioritize these tasks with applicable resources and other groups to achieve cost-out targets in parallel with daily tactical team responsibilities. Tactical activity will be dynamic to support the business projects will range from very long-term efforts to short-notice and critical needs; This position must be able to effectively manage this dynamic task variety and provide clear concise direction for their team to execute.

• Owns and manages workload capacity of reporting team and consults with direct manager on anticipated headcount needs or other capacity related topics.

• Formal performance management of direct reports including reviews corrective actions goals performance improvement plans and other related tasks as required.

• Consult for direct reports to support research and analysis of data such as customer design proposals specifications and manuals to determine feasibility of design or application. Coach direct reporting team to provide advisement for sales and marketing groups to support new product developments cost reduction initiatives product manufacturing qualifications and other custom requests.

• Other Activities as directed by management to support business needs

Experience/Skills:

• 5-10 years of similar or related experience working in a technical field 3-5 years of direct team leadership experience.

• Strong interpersonal skills in both formal and informal conversations good organizational skills and demonstrated high emotional intelligence.

• Able to organize prioritize and complete responsibilities in a timely manner without external motivation.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Demonstrated initiative organizational skill and professional work habits

• Able to quickly achieve and maintain a high degree of trust and confidence with reporting team as well as with internal and external customers.

• Must be a US Citizen for positions at the North Mankato facility.

Education:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or similar technical science field

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