Engineering Manager

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.

SUMMARY:

Responsible for supervising engineers, coordinating production plans, and researching new procedures and products that they can use in future products. The Engineering Manager is responsible for hiring and supervising employees, and budgeting. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Creating project plans that will help the organization meet the goals required for new products or designs.
Present and explaining budget and project proposals to all stakeholders.
Prepare budgets, bids, and contracts.
Confer with production, and outside management to determine product specifications
Manage the Engineering members.  Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of this unit
Direct the activities of the engineering group including their interaction with maintenance function
Participate in site wide planning including capital management, inventory control, and others as required
Support Corporate and local initiatives (SAP, PIS, etc)
Oversee department development and training; facilitate special projects
Work with the accounting function to quantify, measure and report cost savings; work with the accounting function to quantify, measure and report project expenditures in insure project are on budget
Act as contact and facilitator of inter-company and intra-company initiatives
Effectively communicate company and department goals, achievements, problems, solutions, practices, changes, and policies.  Encourage positive communication.  Enforce all company policies, rules and regulations.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Perform other duties as assigned.

COMPETENCIES:
Champions Change - Actively promotes and continually seeks changes that move the business forward. Works with an open and flexible mind in considering change
Communication/Interpersonal Skills - Maintains a positive attitude, works at maintaining positive work relationships, ability to communicate effectively with co-workers, effectively communicates with outside contacts, strong impact and selling skills
Delivers Results - Sets goals and objectives for self and team and takes responsibility to achieve these in a timely manner. Ensures that actions are taken in support of goals and objectives.  Examples - sets and delivers goals, results focused, action orientated.
Displays Creativity - Able to generate novel solutions to problems. Examples are creative decision making and applying vision and creativity to decision making.
Effective Decision Making - Skilled at analyzing the soft and hard aspects of a problem and using functional expertise to make effective decisions. Comfortable in dealing with concepts and uncertainty in problem solving.  
People Management Skills - Effective as a manager in motivating, coaching and developing employees.  Applies effective management skills to motivate subordinates.  
Provides Effective Leadership - Effective as a leader and communicator in motivating and managing people as individuals and in teams. Provides direction to sub ordinates and is effective in coaching and developing others.  Examples include developing and retaining talent, project and team leadership, providing clear direction and effective people management.
Works Efficiently - Effective at planning and organizing work and using time management to ensure deadlines are met and targets are achieved. Able to reschedule plans to cope with unexpected occurrences Maintains well-organized materials, files, systems and tools. Breaks work down into logical steps. Anticipates and eliminates roadblocks and delays. Stays within allotted time for accomplishing tasks. Completes tasks in the shortest, most efficient manner. Makes sure all parts of a job are completed in full, including follow-up plans and paperwork.
Self-Development - Constantly seeks to improve own knowledge and skills set by seeking feedback on performance, making positive plans for future direction and developing aligned personal action plans.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Bachelor's degree required, Masters preferred (engineering background highly desired)
6+ years related experience
Experience in managing highly technical industrial expansions (construction management skills desired)
Titanium experience would be very helpful (desired – not required).
Melting experience would be very helpful (desired – not required).
Ability and desire to manage in a 24 hour per day, 7 day per week manufacturing environment.
Ability to work hours as needed work with back-shift personnel, solve problems, and respond to emergencies.
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Statistical knowledge/experience highly desirable.  
ISO9000 experience would be very helpful (desired – not required).
Strong leadership and analytical skills
Ability to effectively communicate and interact with all organization levels.
Personal Computer Skills (MS Office experience desired)

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 frequently required to talk or hear; frequently required to stand, walk or sit; regularly required to use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms; occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

THE WORK ENVIRONMENT CHARACTERISTICS DESCRIBED HERE ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF THOSE AN EMPLOYEE ENCOUNTERS WHILE PERFORMING THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THIS JOB.  REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS MAY BE MADE TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES TO PERFORM THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS.

The typical work environment is a standard office setting / office contained in a mill or manufacturing setting.

The employee is occasionally required to perform work in a mill environment with occasional exposure to work near moving mechanical parts / work in high, precarious places / fumes or airborne particles / toxic or caustic chemicals / risk of electrical shock; the typical noise level is moderate noise.

Proof of US citizenship, nationality, and/or permanent resident status in order to comply with all applicable export and import laws and regulations.