Order Engineering Lead

POSITION PURPOSE

The Engineering Lead will manage the order engineering team to support order processing, including quotation support (submittal drawing and other front end technical requests).

This position is a hybrid of technical and managerial work, requiring coordination of orders and completion of a wide variety of tasks with minimal supervision, using a wide variety of skills.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS (Required)
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Years of Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience.
• Systems Experience: Intermediate Excel skills.

Advanced Excel skills preferred.

Moderate Power Point skills, advanced skills preferred; Experience working with an ERP system strongly preferred.

• Management Experience:
o Ability to accurately predict the duration of proposed tasks
o Thorough understanding of critical path analysis

• Technical Expertise:
o Experience with Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, Airflow
o Familiarity w/ engineering selections for components and equipment, such as fans, pumps, piping, etc.
o Ability to work w/ vendors for purchased parts
o Ability to quickly research and find technical information on the web, in textbooks and in journals
o Ability to quickly pick-up new company-specific software for analyzing all aspects of products, BOMs, ratings, etc.
• Communication Experience: Proven record in effective written and oral communication

• Leadership skills:
o Ability to effectively facilitate team meetings
o Ability to work with a wide variety of people at different levels of the company
o Ability to motivate others to prioritize work to support projects/orders.
o Keeps excellent track of all open action items and ensures team members get
necessary work completed.
o Able to establish schedules and meet those schedules

NATURE & SCOPE

Reports To: Order Engineering Manager
Direct Reports: Product Engineers, Design Engineers & Designers
The Engineering Lead will work integrally with all Engineering teams.

He/She will be expected to provide leadership, motivation, and coordination to the team. 

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
It is expected that the Team Lead will be responsible for the following:
Process Management:
o Manage and continuously improve Order Engineering processes.
o Develop tools to manage variation in Order Engineering.
o Manage requests for customer facing technical documentation.
o Coordinate upstream and downstream technical support.
o Manage the flow of ETO unit orders to internal customers.
o Track KPIs to measure team performance.
o Set priorities and acquire resources to meet objectives
o Ensure compliance of ‘best practice’ rules for modeling in Autodesk Inventor, including feature constraining, part modification, new part generation by starting with an existing part.
o For all designs except for structural or thermal systems (where an engineer is required for approval), full approval/rejection rights of designers’ work
o Work with designers to create design...