Engineering Manager

Hohman Plating

Job Location:

Dayton, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Hohman Plating a division of Novaria Group is a leading service provider for plated coatings. We serve a diversified customer base including aerospace medical large equipment and business since 1918 we are seeking long-term employees to join our team. Conveniently located one mile north of downtown Dayton. Hohman Plating offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical dental vision LTD/STD Life 401K match Bonus and more.

SUMMARY OF JOB

The Engineering Manager leads Hohman Platings engineering organization and is responsible for ensuring engineering resources are effectively aligned to support the companys operational and growth objectives. This role oversees both process engineering and quality engineering establishing priorities developing people and removing barriers that prevent the team from executing at a high level.

Working closely with leaders across the organization the Engineering Manager ensures customer requirements are translated into executable production processes engineering support is delivered in a timely manner and new capabilities are successfully integrated into the business. Success in this role requires strong leadership sound business and operational judgment and the ability to balance daily production support with longer-term initiatives that expand Hohmans technical capabilities and support future growth.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead the engineering organization by establishing priorities allocating resources and ensuring engineering efforts support the companys operational customer and growth objectives.
Develop coach and build a high-performing engineering organization through clear expectations accountability training and succession planning.
Ensure engineering resources are effectively deployed to support production resolve technical issues and minimize operational disruptions.
Oversee planning and engineering workflows ensuring new work engineering holds customer requests and improvement initiatives are appropriately prioritized and executed.
Lead the successful introduction of new processes capabilities and major technical initiatives from concept through stable production implementation.
Coordinate cross-functional efforts to ensure customer requirements are effectively evaluated defined and translated into executable production processes.
Ensure effective technical engagement with customers supporting capability discussions project planning problem resolution and long-term relationship development.
Drive continuous improvement of engineering systems processes documentation and standard work to improve efficiency consistency and scalability.
Monitor engineering performance through key metrics and regularly communicate priorities risks resource needs and project status to leadership.
Support strategic planning capital investment decisions and capability development efforts that strengthen Hohmans competitive position and enable future growth.
Other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Bachelors degree in Engineering Chemistry Materials Science or another technical field required.
10 years of experience in manufacturing engineering process development or technical operations with demonstrated success leading people projects and cross-functional priorities.
Strong operational judgment with the ability to balance technical requirements customer needs production flow business priorities and resource constraints.
Proven ability to lead and develop engineers or technical professionals through clear priorities accountability coaching and practical problem solving.
Experience managing engineering workflows production support new work introduction technical projects or process improvement initiatives in a complex manufacturing environment.
Ability to communicate effectively with customers engineers operators managers and senior leadership translating technical issues into clear business and operational decisions.
Strong project management prioritization and follow-through skills with the ability to keep daily support work moving while protecting longer-term improvement and capability-development efforts.
Background in aerospace defense metal finishing chemical processing or other specification-driven manufacturing environments preferred.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

While performing the duties of this job the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Required Experience:

Manager