Director of Engineering – Waco, Texas
The overarching goal of the Director of Engineering is to lead the group of Engineering Managers from a perspective of “we know how to do design work and we will do it on-time, on-budget, and we will have a good time doing it”.
The Director of Engineering reports to the President and is accountable for producing results.
Requirements
- A Bachelor of Science degree in a relevant engineering field or equivalent experience.
- Extensive mechanical, structural, and hydraulic design experience.
- Leadership and strategic thinking with interpersonal skills.
- Have problem-solving/analysis experience.
- Excellent written and verbal skills.
- Experience with 3D CAD and FEA.
- Have customer interface experience.
- Project management and organizational skills.
Preferred Experience
- Extensive experience in product development of mobile and material handling equipment.
- Licensed Professional Engineer.
- MBA.
- Computer proficiency.
- Value engineering.
Some functions of the job include being responsible for the supervision of Engineering Managers
- Consistent and continuous supervision and direction means applying your own knowledge and experience for design and development to each of the different Engineering Managers.
- The Engineering Managers will manage 25+ engineers and designers, and product design from design to execution for internal and external engineering services, including mechanical and structural calculations, hydraulics, controls, documentation, and support manuals.
- To successfully manage a group of engineers and designers, the Director must possess the fundamental engineering skills and knowledge he/she will be asking Engineering Managers to use.
- Heavy experience in systems design, structural design with calculations, intimate familiarity with engineering terms and definitions such as shear (direct and torsional), bending (single and multiaxial), compressive and tensile stresses, combined stresses, material yield and ultimate strengths, and safety factors will be a must because they will be used daily on the job.
- A good, solid knowledge of machine capabilities and manufacturing processes is vital to this position.
- Heavy awareness and concern for properly designed and safe to operate equipment. “Get the operator home safely everyday”
- Serve as a member of the leadership team.
- Build, develop and manage engineering team capable of carrying out initiatives.
- Interact with customers to secure business, develop requirements and concepts and help develop bids.
- Maintain and optimize budgets and schedules to meet goals.
- Recommend new technology and ideas to improve product quality, project timelines, and efficiency for designing new product.
Travel
- The only travel that might be required would be for trade shows, product demos, and customer service, but this should be limited to about 30 days a year, maximum.
Our client is a US-based, highly respected, growing and profitable design and manufacturing firm. The company has over 50 employees, including at least 20 engineers and designers, and a 60,000 square foot facility in Central Texas – Where they not only design solutions for their customers, but also manufacture high-quality prototypes and limited production runs of their creative designs.
Some of their customers are well known multi-billion-dollar manufacturers in the construction equipment, mining equipment, agricultural equipment, and aerial equipment industries, as well as key players in the oil and gas industry. They also do some special defense-related design projects for the US military.
The highly skilled engineering team often acts as an extension of their customers’ existing internal engineering team and is frequently called upon to tackle complicated design challenges that require very creative solutions. They have successfully applied their experience in mechanisms, structures, hydraulics, and control systems – to complete an amazingly “diverse” collection of design projects (some patented) over their 25 years of being in business.