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Position Overview:We are seeking a highly motivated and strategic Central Engineering Team Manager to lead and develop our central engineering team. This team plays a critical role in facility design, new product development, current product improvements, and supporting sales with technical insight and innovation. The ideal candidate will have a strong engineering background, proven leadership capabilities, and a passion for continuous improvement and cross-functional collaboration.Key Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership & Development
- Recruit, lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary team of engineers.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Allocate resources and assign projects to ensure optimal team performance.
- Engineering & Design
- Oversee the design and development of new Facility Designs and Product offerings.
- Ensure that engineering projects meet quality, cost, and timeline objectives.
- Support the implementation of new technologies, integrate the product offerings of multiple business units, and proactive designs for clients.
- Product Development & Support
- Drive the product development lifecycle from concept to launch.
- Collaborate with sales, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure design feasibility and compliance.
- Identify and execute improvements on current products to enhance performance, cost-efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
- Sales & Opportunity Support
- Meet with customers to present and develop solutions and product offerings.
- Partner with the sales team to identify and evaluate new business opportunities.
- Provide technical support and innovative solutions for customer requirements and proposals.
- Translate customer feedback into actionable engineering improvements.
- Process & Efficiency Improvements
- Analyze existing product lines for design and manufacturing optimization.
- Lead initiatives focused on reducing costs, improving quality, and increasing production efficiency.
- Standardize engineering practices and documentation across the organization.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Petroleum Engineering
- 7+ years of engineering experience with at least 3 years in a leadership or management role.
- Proven experience in facility design, product development, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Experience working in a manufacturing environment is a plus.
- Proficiency in process software and engineering tools.
- Familiarity with fabrication processes and build efficiencies.
- Background in supporting sales or customer-facing engineering projects.
- Experience working in a matrixed or multi-site engineering environment.
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What We Do
We operate primarily under the DistributionNOW and DNOW brands as a global distributor of the oil and gas and industrial markets.
Through our growing DigitalNOW® platform, customers can leverage world-class technology across eCommerce, data management and supply chain optimization applications to solve a wide array of complex operational and product sourcing challenges to assist in maximizing their return on assets.
Our energy product offering serves the energy industry – from upstream drilling and completion, exploration and production (“E&P”), midstream infrastructure development to downstream petroleum refining and petrochemicals – as well as in other industries, such as mining, chemical processing, liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) terminals, power generation utilities and renewables. The industrial distribution end markets include engineering and construction firms that perform capital and maintenance projects for their end-user clients.
Our global product offering includes maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies, pipe, valves, fittings, flanges, gaskets, fasteners, electrical, instrumentation, artificial lift, pumping solutions, valve actuation and modular process, measurement and control equipment. We also offer procurement, warehouse and inventory management solutions as part of our supply chain and materials management offering. We have developed expertise in providing application systems, work processes, parts integration, optimization solutions and after-sales support.
Our solutions include outsourcing portions or entire functions of our customers’ procurement, warehouse and inventory management, logistics, point of issue technology, project management, business process and performance metrics reporting. We streamline our customers’ purchasing process, from requisition to procurement to payment, by digitally managing workflow, improving approval routing and providing robust reporting functionality.
