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• Competitive Compensation and Benefits
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• Global Opportunities
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The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $142,400 - $178,000 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.
Tasks and Qualifications:This is What You Will do in This Role:
- Lead, manage and coach a team of Development Engineers to deliver cost effective, reliable material handling products to meet requirements for the internal and external business customers including ease of manufacture, installation, and serviceability.
- Participate in the development and implementation of strategic and tactical plans to achieve on-time delivery of products through resource management including interns and outside contractors as needed and approved.
- Build international partnerships to extend consistent standards during a period of growth and future stability.
- Create and maintain a feedback loop for customers at all levels to ensure day to day job tasks are meeting expectations.
- Drive continuous improvement and lean initiatives.
- Maintain culture and external team partnerships across all levels of Dematic to bring team visibility and team engagement.
- Run engineering groups in the region to function as first line of Dematic R&D Engineering regional project support for technologies developed in other DEM regions.
Project/Product Delivery:
- Ensure that products are executed by their teams are on schedule and on budget while meeting requirements and quality targets.
- Weekly touch points and monthly evaluation and reporting of product status
- Accurate monthly forecasting
- Establish appropriate tasking.
- Identify skills gap assessment, appropriate skills assignment, and make plans to close knowledge gaps.
- Maintain safety & compliance standards and communication.
- Proactively drive capacity planning through innovative demand sourcing
- Issue resolution or conflict resolution; escalations with appropriate level of context and detail along with recommended actions when appropriate.
- Ensuring products comply with changing environmental, safety and governmental requirements of each region product is applied within by Dematic, while finding the most practical, cost-effective ways of doing so.
Financial Responsibility:
- Awareness of budget plan and ensuring that daily management decision is aligned (training hours, OT, indirect vs direct), initiative-taking management.
- Awareness of Strategic Plans and what their team’s responsibility is for achieving those goals.
- Managing Team and Individual expenses
- Manages workload to product budgets and risk mitigation.
Strategic and Tactical Initiatives/Projects:
- Driving improvements for the greater of larger department from strategic initiatives. Be a change agent.
- Drive Process Improvement, increase team performance, metrics and build team/group cohesion.
- Create effective business presentations.
What We are Looking For:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (at minimum, Mechanical Engineering Preferred) Advanced degree is a plus.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Minimum of 10 years of engineering and engineering people leadership experience
- Experience with multi-site engineering management is a plus.
- Material Handling Industry Experience strongly preferred.
- Product Development Experience
- Controls technology exposure is a plus.
Skills:
- Excellent leadership, teamwork, influencing, mentoring, coaching and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent analytical, organization and time management skills.
- Effective communication skills including demonstrated stand-up presentation skills, group facilitation and ability to effectively interact with customers.
- Advanced ability to interact effectively in a team-based organization and with employees of all levels and backgrounds across all functions.
- PC skills with demonstrated knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
- Ability to work individually and under minimal supervision to include a mixture of both remote and office environments leading distributed workforce.
- The ability to effectively manage multiple and conflicting high-level business problems simultaneously under time constraints.
- Travel up to 20% to the customer site, other Dematic offices or identified locations for meetings, training, and business needs. Passport required for travel out of the country as needed.
- NX and Teamcenter experience preferred.
- Experience using SAP for materials, order and time tracking preferred. SAP 4 Hana experience is a Plus.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in engineering
- Minimum of 10 years of engineering and engineering people leadership experience
- Product development experience
- Experience with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project
- Ability to manage distributed workforce in a mixture of remote and office environments
- Travel up to 20% (customer sites, other offices); passport required for international travel
- Maintain safety, compliance, and budget awareness for team and products
- Material handling industry experience
- NX and Teamcenter experience
- Experience using SAP for materials, order and time tracking (SAP S/4HANA a plus)
- Experience with multi-site engineering management
- Controls technology exposure
- Advanced degree in engineering
What We Do
Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries. We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers. Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry. With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis. No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally. Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
