Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Develop engineering department’s capital & operating expense budget.

Oversee company’s engineering product and project requirements.

Schedule project assignments, planning and budgets.

Responsible for providing employee leadership, training & development, performance reviews, hiring, counseling and/or termination of employment.

Establish and maintain Engineering procedures, Quality manual and Standards book, consistent with our quality plan.

Oversee all engineering outsourcing, including qualifying and contract negotiating.

Approve all department vacations.

Support Sales, Service and customers regarding warranty issues and field service.

Communicate on a routine basis with the proposal department regarding concepts, budgets and advice.

Communicate on routine basis with manufacturing regarding projects, product improvements.

Maintain monthly engineering loading and gross margin forecast reports.

Other functions as directed.

Education and/or Experience:

4-year College degree in Engineering with >10 years of technical engineering experience, and at least 4 years in a engineering management position. Must have demonstrable mechanical knowledge of steel fabrication, pumps, piping systems, instrumentation, process equipment, liquid heating and cooling, filtration, motion control equipment and a solid understanding of electrical control systems. Must be able to demonstrate above average skill using Solidworks 3D modeling software and design tables. Working knowledge of AutoCad Electrical design software, FEA software PLCs, robotics, chemistry and 8D problem solving would be considered favorably.