Manager, Engineering (Industrial Products)

Location: Menomonee Falls, WI, US, 53051

Company

hirify.global supports Magnetek operations delivering customer-specific engineered solutions for industrial products and material-handling applications.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering organization, including training, cross-training, accountability, succession planning, hiring, and performance management.
• Own design execution from order handoff and requirements clarification through design, review, approval, release, and production support.
• Prioritize engineering work, plan capacity, manage schedule risks, and improve lead time, on-time completion, first-pass quality, rework, change control, and customer response time.
• Ensure requirements are translated into safe, accurate, manufacturable drawings, bills of material, specifications, calculations, and technical documentation.
• Partner with Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Project Management, Customer Service, Sales, Quality, Materials, and Product Management on manufacturability, cost, technical risks, and customer commitments.
• Develop engineering standards, workflows, knowledge-management practices, departmental objectives, staffing and training plans, budgets, and continuous-improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field.
• Seven or more years of progressive engineering experience, including at least three years leading engineers or other technical professionals.
• Experience supporting manufactured industrial products in a customer-configured or engineer-to-order environment.
• Experience with design controls, engineering changes, configuration management, and release of technical documentation.
• Strong engineering judgment for complex design decisions, technical risk management, and escalation to subject-matter experts.
• Working knowledge of electrical, controls, mechanical, embedded/software, or related engineering disciplines relevant to industrial products and systems.
• Working knowledge of electrical, machinery, functional-safety, product-safety, and material-handling codes and standards, including when specialist review, testing, or certification is required.
• Experience applying Lean, Kaizen, root cause analysis, corrective action, and standard work to engineering or transactional processes.
• Strong cross-functional communication, influence, organizational, project-management, analytical, and problem-solving skills; proficiency with Microsoft Office and familiarity with ERP, CAD, PLM/PDM, workflow, project, or capacity-management systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with industrial controls, variable-frequency drives, radio controls, crane or material-handling applications, or custom electrical systems.
• Experience with design verification, functional safety, regulatory compliance, or applicable industrial product standards.
• Experience with ERP and CAD/PLM/PDM systems.
• Lean, Kaizen, Six Sigma, or structured problem-solving experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a customer-configured, high-mix or engineer-to-order industrial engineering environment.
• Collaborate across engineering, operations, manufacturing, project management, sales, quality, materials, and product management.
• Drive a culture of ownership, collaboration, technical discipline, and continuous improvement aligned with the Columbus McKinnon Business System.