Director of Engineering Jobs - South Elgin, Illinois (IL)

Director of Engineering - Job Description

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OVERALL ROLE:

Provide strategic technical leadership in planning, establishing and directing all aspects of the Company's engineering policies, objectives, and initiatives. Responsible for supplying and maintaining adequate resources for all engineering functions in the pursuit of the company's strategic goals and operational plans. Develop ideas for new products or product enhancements including the analysis of raw product, resins, and paints for products and the utilization of automated support machinery for Hoffer's operations. Provides engineering expertise to other departments where needed.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Management of effective and efficient delivery of product concepts and designs as well as the development of department processes, procedures and standards.
• Initiates and promotes experiments to advance department knowledge of injection molding.
• Influence product development by gathering and analyzing product, customer, and operational requirements.
• Develops the Hoffer standard for tool design
  • Supervises purchase of new tooling
  • Works with tool shops to assure on time delivery of new tools
  • Evaluates the performance of the tool shops
  • Evaluates take over tooling quality
  • Participates in advance product quality planning activities
  • Initiates feasibility and tooling design reviews
  • Assures production readiness of new tooling through the sampling evaluation process
  • Overseas and participates in the development of F.M.E A's
  • Coordinates activities of the company's automotive representatives.
  • Supervises, through the Sampling Supervisor, the development of production processes
• This job description does not contain every function / responsibility that may be required in the performance of this job. All team members are required to perform other related duties / functions as assigned.
• All team members shall:
  • Maintain a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating in a manner so that you get along with customers, clients, co-workers and management.
  • Continue to grow job specific knowledge and use tools to identify and assist with continuous improvement.
  • Comply with safety regulations and maintain clean and orderly work areas

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The incumbent will:

• Sometimes sit, stand, and use keyboard
• Occasionally walk, bend at the waist, twist/turn, kneel/crouch, climb.
• Occasionally lift below and above the waist, lift above the shoulder, push and pull up to 30 lbs.
• Occasionally use manipulative finger and foot movement, repetitive hand/wrist movement, squeeze.
• Occasionally, be exposed to fumes, odors, dusts, oil/grease, and humidity.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
• 5 to10 years of professional engineering experience; project management experience preferred
• Broad knowledge of tool design, mold repair and machining.
• Ability to perform difficult work on highly technical or involved projects, presenting new or constantly changing problems.
• Duties require broad conceptual judgment, initiative and ability to deal with complex factors and ideas not easily evaluated and to make decisions based on conclusions for which there is little precedent.