Engineering Manager

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Livonia, MI, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Automotive • Manufacturing
The Role
Manage and lead engineering and technical teams to deliver engineering and testing projects. Hire and train staff, set budgets and timelines, ensure effective processes, secure resources, collaborate across departments, maintain customer and supplier relationships, and communicate technical information to non‑technical stakeholders to ensure program profitability and success.
Summary Generated by Built In

We work alongside the best and brightest to do incredibly cool things you wouldn't believe. At Roush, you're part of building the future. Are you someone that has a passion for providing innovated solutions to complex challenges? Do you want to work someplace where creativity and new ideas are encouraged? If so, then keep reading.

We fuse technology and engineering to provide product development solutions to customers in a diverse range of industries. Widely recognized for providing engineering, testing, prototype, and manufacturing services to the transportation industry, Roush also provides significant support to the aerospace, defense and theme park industries. With over 2,400 employees in facilities throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America, our unique combination of creativity and tenacity activates big ideas on a global stage.

The Engineering Manager is responsible for overseeing a team of engineering and technical personnel in 
the completion of engineering or testing projects. Their duties include hiring and training qualified 
engineering staff, setting project budgets and timelines for completion and helping their staff to execute
the project deliverables. The Engineering Manager will collaborate with other team leaders and 
departments to ensure program profitability and success.

To learn more about our Advanced Engineering Team, check out this short video at the link below

Join Our Advanced Engineering Team!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Lead the effort to establish and implement Engineering Services strategic priorities in alignment
    with business strategy to drive results to grow the business.
  • Manages staff and assigns tasks to engineering and technical personnel in alignment to business
    and financial objectives.
  • Ensure that processes and programs are standard and effective to meet business and customer
    goals.
  • Forges and maintains relationships with suppliers and customers.
  • Participate in the formulation of business goals, objectives, policies, financial projections and
    customer quoting.
  • Secures the resources needed for teams to excel, including researching and proposing capital
    investments.
  • Collaborates with other team leaders and departments.
  • Participate in company presentations and contract negotiations.
  • Maintains high level expertise in their field or sector.
  • Communicates technical information to non-technical stakeholder

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
  • Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience.
  • Minimum of 2 years of management experience. 
  • Personnel and project management skills. 
  • Expert-level knowledge of sector technology and processes. 
  • Leadership, teambuilding, and mentoring skills. 
  • Strong communication, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills.
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills and attention to detail. 
  • Organizational, planning, and documentation skills. 
  • Proficiency using presentation software to explain complex information to non-technical management personnel and other stake-holders. 
  • Ability to work on multiple projects in various stages simultaneously. 
  • Proven customer relationship skills including the ability to interpret customer requests and deliverables with a focus on cost, quality and delivery.

Preferred Skills:

  • Master’s degree in engineering or MBA.
  • 5 years of experience in a Senior or Lead engineering capacity
  • Working knowledge of program management tools (risk analyses, communication plans, timing
    plans, business cases, comprehensive financial analyses).
  • Strong leadership and management skills, ability to solve complex problems, work
    independently, and be customer focused while managing cost, quality, and delivery.
     

Our full-time benefits include: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, earned sick time, STD, LTD, 401K, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, paid holidays, and more.

If you share our passion for providing innovative solutions to complex challenges, we want you on our team.

Please visit our careers page and apply by clicking on this link: https://jobs.roush.com/us/en/

Visit our website: www.roush.com

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Roush is an EO employer – Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories

If you need a reasonable accommodation for our employment application process due to disability, please contact Roush Talent Acquisition at 734-779-7087.
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Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering
  • Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience
  • Minimum of 2 years of management experience
  • Personnel and project management skills
  • Expert-level knowledge of sector technology and processes
  • Leadership, teambuilding, and mentoring skills
  • Strong communication, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills
  • Critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail
  • Organizational, planning, and documentation skills
  • Proficiency using presentation software to explain complex information to non-technical management personnel and other stakeholders
  • Ability to work on multiple projects in various stages simultaneously
  • Proven customer relationship skills including ability to interpret customer requests and deliverables with a focus on cost, quality and delivery
  • Master's degree in engineering or MBA
  • 5 years of experience in a Senior or Lead engineering capacity
  • Working knowledge of program management tools (risk analyses, communication plans, timing plans, business cases, comprehensive financial analyses)

Roush Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Roush and has not been reviewed or approved by Roush.

  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is described as platinum-level and affordable, including medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, telemedicine, and wellness supports such as EAP, diabetes, and tobacco-cessation programs. Core protections like short- and long-term disability and life/AD&D are highlighted as strengths.
  • Retirement Support An employer-matched 401(k) is emphasized, with plan features such as profit-sharing elements, auto-enrollment, and loan availability that enhance accessibility. The retirement offering is characterized as competitive and a standout within the package.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Paid vacation, paid holidays, and earned sick time are provided alongside leaves for family/medical needs, pregnancy/adoption, military duty, jury duty, and bereavement. The breadth supports varied time-off needs across different life events.

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The Company
HQ: Livonia, MI
2,079 Employees
Year Founded: 1976

What We Do

With a relentless spirit of possibilities, a challenge-driven culture, and an unmatched suite of capabilities, Roush creates remarkable and inspiring solutions for some of the world’s greatest organizations.

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