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Engineering Manager
Columbus McKinnon. Lead the design function for Magnetek operations in Menomonee Falls .
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAssemblyERP
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the design function for Magnetek operations in Menomonee Falls
- Provide technical and people leadership for customer-specific engineered solutions from order handoff through production release and shipment support
- Establish priorities, balance engineering capacity, and strengthen design and review processes
- Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering organization
- Prioritize, schedule, and assign engineering work based on customer commitments, project complexity, capacity, technical risk, and production needs
- Own design execution from requirements clarification through design, review, approval, release, and production support
- Establish capacity planning and visual management practices
- Improve engineering lead time, on-time completion, first-pass quality, rework, engineering changes, and customer response time
- Drive value engineering and design-to-cost activities
- Ensure requirements are translated into drawings, bills of material, specifications, calculations, and technical documentation
- Maintain technical review and design verification practices
- Provide technical direction and escalation support for complex applications, production issues, field concerns, and customer requirements
- Manage engineering changes, configuration, revision control, documentation, approvals, and communication
- Partner with Operations and Manufacturing Engineering on manufacturability, assembly, testing, service, and cost
- Partner with Project Management, Customer Service, and Sales on scope, deliverables, risks, and timing
- Support root cause and corrective action for design-related quality issues, production failures, warranty concerns, and late deliveries
- Develop engineering standards, templates, tools, workflows, and knowledge-management practices
- Use data and structured problem solving to communicate performance, constraints, and countermeasures
- Manage departmental objectives, staffing plans, training plans, budget inputs, and engineering resources
- Handle hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance management, recognition, and issue resolution
- Lead special projects as assigned
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field
- Experience with design controls, engineering changes, configuration management, and release of technical documentation
- Experience supporting manufactured industrial products in a customer-configured or engineer-to-order environment
- Seven or more years of progressive engineering experience
- Minimum 3 years of experience leading engineers or other technical professionals
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop technical teams in a high-mix, customer-configured, or engineer-to-order environment
- Strong engineering judgment and ability to manage technical risk
- Working knowledge of electrical, controls, mechanical, embedded/software, or related engineering disciplines
- Strong understanding of design controls, configuration management, engineering change processes, bills of material, drawings, specifications, and product documentation
- Working knowledge of applicable electrical, machinery, functional safety, product safety, and material-handling codes and standards
- Experience applying Lean, Kaizen, root cause analysis, corrective action, and standard work
- Strong organizational, project-management, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and familiarity with ERP, CAD, PLM/PDM, workflow, and project or capacity-management systems
- Preferred: experience with industrial controls, variable-frequency drives, radio controls, crane or material-handling applications, custom electrical systems, design verification, functional safety, regulatory compliance, industrial product standards, ERP/CAD/PLM/PDM systems, and Lean, Kaizen, Six Sigma, or structured problem-solving
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equal Opportunity Employer
- Drug Free Workplace
- Diverse and inclusive workforce