Director of Engineering - Lippert

Who We Are:

Lippert is a leading, global manufacturer and supplier of highly engineered products and customized solutions, dedicated to shaping, growing and bettering the RV, marine, automotive, commercial vehicle and building products industries.  We combine our strategic manufacturing capabilities with the power of our winning team culture to deliver unrivaled customer service, award-winning innovation, and premium products to all of our customers.

Why We are Different:

At Lippert, Everyone Matters. This is not just a tagline or empty promise; it is who we are.  We have intentionally created a culture that values and celebrates our team members’ unique and varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.  We strive to give our team members a deeper sense of purpose at work, and we continue to build a better work environment by aligning our cultural and business strategies with the needs of our team members.

What You will Get:

1. A unique, inclusive and supportive company culture.
2. Comprehensive benefit offerings including medical, dental, vision, 401k with employer match, vacation, and more!
3. Fair and competitive compensation.
4. Career development and mentoring and opportunities to grow.
5. Holiday, personal and vacation days.

Summary/Objective

The individual must be forward thinking, raise the bar and expectations of the Engineering team. This role is responsible for tying together multiple production lines across multiple divisions.  They should be able to lead their team to accomplish challenging goals by effective leadership strategies.  This individual must be passionate, hardworking and have a sense of urgency for all projects. 

This position will be responsible for establishing these values in the team and basic engineering structure, procedure and policies in internal and external areas of engineering. As well as working with other groups to accomplish the goals of the company and meeting expectations of the customers.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Help to merge multiple production lines across divisions.
2. Help evolve the company’s design philosophy and processes
3. Lead, mentor and grow a team of designers and engineers
4. Translate business objectives into design objectives and initiatives
5. Work closely and collaboratively with product management.
6. Present concepts in various stages of completion to groups large and small
7. Conduct yourself at the highest level in accordance with the corporate core values
8. Continue self-development and learning to share with and sharpen the team
9. Ability to function as a bridge across disciplines, such as Design, Product, Engineering and Marketing
10. Strong business acumen; understands the many dimensions of a growing company, their importance, and design’s relationships with each
11. Should be self-motivated and possess high level of personal initiative
12. High level of creativity; ability to evaluate and address training needs of personnel
13. Must maintain a high level of energy, able to effectively facilitate multiple projects
14. Manage and oversee the Engineering teams consisting of: Designers/Drafters working with 3D SolidWorks and PLM software, as well as other technical backgrounds.

Competencies

1. Leadership
2. Communication proficiency/coaching
3. Coaching
4. Technical Capacity
5. Ethical Conduct.
6. Communication Proficiency
7. Results Driven
8. Initiative
9. Detail oriented
10. Excellent communication skills
11. Strong computer software sills
12. Dealing with complexity
13. Production Planning
14. Process Improvement
15. Managing processes
16. Decision Making
17. Quality Management/Control

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has supervisory responsibilities upon hiring. Direct reports include product engineering managers, design engineers, and laboratory technicians.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, and stooping. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position, and the expected work hours are 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday; weekend and overnight work could also necessary.

Travel

Local and/or minimal out of state travel is expected for this position.

Required Education and Experience

1. Bachelor’s degree in engineering
2. 10+ years of relevant work experience with 5+ years of experience in leading/managing a team of designers
3. Business/industry experience
4. Highly motivated and passionate leader of people

Work Authorization/Security Clearance:

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Other Duties
The Director of Engineering may have access to confidential information regarding the company, its suppliers and customers. This position has a responsibility to prevent revealing or divulging any such information unless it is necessary to do so in the performance of their duties. Access to confidential information is on a need-to-know basis and must be authorized by management. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the team member for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Lippert provides equal employment opportunity to all team members and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, disability, citizen status, protected veteran status, military service, marital status or any other legally protected category as established by federal, state, or local law.  This policy governs all employment decisions, including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, compensation, training, promotion, discipline, transfer, leave-of-absence, access to benefits, layoff, recall, termination and other personnel matters.  All employment and personnel-related decisions are based solely upon legitimate, job-related factors, such as skill, ability, past performance, and length of service with Lippert.

Lippert’s strong commitment to equal employment opportunity requires a commitment by each individual team member.  Compliance with the letter and spirit of this policy is required of all team members.  Violations of this policy should be immediately reported to your leader or to any member of leadership.  Team members who violate this policy will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

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