Engineering Manager

• Provide strategic leadership, workflow management, and direct technical oversight across Technical Engineering, production documentation, customer manufacturing data conversion, and SMT programming
• Manage, mentor, and establish operational priorities for Technical Engineering, Document Control, and SMT Programming personnel
• Establish workflows, accountability mechanisms, quality metrics, and cross-training programs
• Interface with Manufacturing Operations, Process Engineering, Quality Assurance, Program Management, Supply Chain, and Planning to align data readiness with build schedules
• Coordinate technical onboarding, skills assessments, and staff training
• Direct intake, conversion, validation, and release of customer BOMs, Gerber files, CAD layouts, centroid files, fabrication drawings, and test procedures
• Oversee technical data reviews and escalate missing, ambiguous, or conflicting design information
• Facilitate technical readiness workflows from data receipt through final production traveler release
• Review, release, and maintain work instructions, SOPs, and quality documentation
• Enter and structure customer BOMs and technical parameters in the MRP/ERP system, such as Infor
• Build and maintain manufacturing process routings, operation steps, model points, and digital workflows in Aegis MES
• Execute ECOs and synchronize drawings, BOM revisions, machine programs, and work instructions
• Disseminate Quality Bulletins and enforce configuration and revision control
• Own SMT machine programming accountability for high-speed FUJI NXT III placement lines
• Generate, verify, optimize, and maintain placement programs from CAD, centroid, and Gerber data
• Supervise the SMT component package library, including geometries, land patterns, dimensions, polarities, rotations, and feeder/nozzle assignments
• Optimize placement sequences, line balancing, feeder layouts, and machine cycle times to improve OEE
• Provide shop-floor engineering support during FAI, NPI, and first-article prototype runs
• Investigate placement defects, component rotation errors, package mismatches, and machine faults
• Identify automation opportunities in technical engineering and programming workflows
• Develop and maintain VBA tools and automated Excel templates for technical review forms, production scheduling, and BOM comparisons
• Monitor and report KPIs including program lead time, programming accuracy, first-pass placement yield, and engineering cycle times

Engineering Manager jobs in Connecticut

Manufacturing Technical Engineering Manager – Electronics Manufacturing Services, PCBA