Sustaining Engineer Manager

Job Description:

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Miller Electric, an ITW company, is seeking a Sustaining Engineer Manager to join the Precision Welding Solutions team. As the Sustaining Engineer Manager, you will play a key leadership role in managing and facilitating the growth of your team, supporting existing product offerings, and delivering on operational excellence initiatives.

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You will lead sustaining engineering efforts while also collaborating with new production development engineering, materials, operations, and service teams.

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Miller Electric established a diverse portfolio of welding equipment and accessories. In this role you will maintain our reputable industry leader position.

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Essential Functions:

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Develop and foster the growth of your engineering team.

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Enhance skills - provide resources, coaching, and professional development support

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Build relationships - make key connections, breakdown communication barriers, and apply ITW principles: Shared Risk, Integrity, Respect, and Trust

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Align goals - create cohesive goals in alignment with organization objectives that are achievable and actionable

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Streamline processes - optimize workflows and communication channels, encourage collaboration, and eliminate non-value add activities

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Support manufacturing by providing solutions and implementing changes.

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Quality and warranty - ensure product reliability and preserve design intent to keep products performing as intended throughout their lifecycle

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Material conformance/availability - verify components meet specification and provide supply chain interruption solutions

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Customer satisfaction - ensure that customers and the service team receive all necessary support and response to address concerns

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Product lifecycle management - manage risk surrounding the complexities of product introduction, maturity, and service

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Product design and compliance - adhere to relevant regulatory standards. Roadmap regulatory changes and develop strategies to maintain product compliance.

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Deliver on operational excellence initiatives.

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Strategic sourcing - support new vendors, materials, and processes qualification activities.

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Cost optimization - provide comprehensive analyses of component design and sourcing. Find efficiencies and optimal designs through a holistic approach.

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Design for manufacturing and assembly - challenge your team to make design changes which eliminate wastes by reducing processes, complexity, and eliminating components. Develop strategies to leverage standardized designs spanning the product portfolio.

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Safety culture - protect our people based on our philosophy that all accidents are preventable. Share ownership of safety by developing product and processes continuous improvement strategies with your team.

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What you need to do to be successful in this role :

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Adaptability - enterprise first mindset and will pivot to escalate the business priorities

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Critical thinking & decision making - ability to make logical and sound decisions and to know when to act independently and when to seek assistance

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Curiosity & learning orientation - actively identifying new areas for learning and applying newly gained knowledge/skill on the job

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Drive to excel - driven to succeed and willing to go the extra mile. Perseveres in the face of obstacles and challenges. Will bring projects to resolution.

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Interpersonal skills & communication - emotional intelligence strength provides the ability to work collaboratively and partner well with others

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Qualifications:

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  Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering with 5 or more years of relevant industry experience

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  Project management experience preferred

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  Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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