We feel a special obligation to the employees who comprise our Taco family. We are committed to offering employees access to the tools necessary to live long and productive lives. We strive to instill in all of our employees:

A positive mental attitude that helps us to be a leader in the industry
A commitment to building strong relationships, both inside and outside the organization
A desire to learn, grow, and contribute to moving our strategy forward
A need to create and to innovate

Employment Type: Regular Full-Time

Shift: 1st Shift

Work Status: Hybrid

Position Summary:

The Sr. Manager, Mechanical Engineering manages new product development and sustaining activities in their responsible areas in support of the strategic vision. This role leads a team of engineers and designers, focusing on deliverables though the phase gate process and manages sustaining support activities to solve production issues. They are responsible for transforming the department’s initiatives into tactical plans to support corporate research and product development goals.

Measures of success:

Improve the efficiency of mechanical development, through successfully building, mentoring, and managing their mechanical engineering team
Accurately develop and manage annual department and new product development (NPD) budgets
Accurately develop, maintain, and enforce department policies and procedures
Targets met for NPD Index (NPD Products/Total Products sold) monthly
Attain annual cost savings goals.
Maintain ISO documents with zero findings in ISO audits

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Engineering Leadership & Support

Builds and directs a successful engineering team responsible for new product development (NPD) and sustaining support engineering activities for residential products
Follows and implements all engineering support procedures and best practices
Promote team cohesion and collaboration with other departments such as Product Management, Sales and Technical Services
Sets clear and achievable goals for the residential engineering team
Works with the SVP of Product Engineering and Legal in the managing of intellectual property, including new patent filing and legacy patent administration
Prepares and monitors departmental budget, including capital, expenses and engineering time.
Supports Operations, Quality, Supply Chain and other internal departments with engineering-related production and supplier issues.

NPD Project Deliverables

Knows and drives the NPD phase gate process
Determines resource allocations for Phases 1 and 2 NPD projects
Ensures accurate project schedule building for Phases 3 through 5 NPD projects
Ensures on-time and on-budget completion of projects.
Ensures quality engineering deliverables and documentation are achieved, including but not limited to design reviews, design failure mode and effect analysis (DFMEA), engineering change orders (ECOs), drawings, calculations, finite element analysis (FEA), test reports, etc.

Engineering Process Improvement

Manages process improvement related to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Engineering Change Requests (ECR), Engineering Change Orders (ECO), lab activities, product design, test reports (TR) and other standard Engineering Functions
Streamlines processes with workflows and automations
Ensures accurate and protected file storage for easily accessible files
Develops and implements policies, standards, and procedures for the engineering and technical work in the department.
Establishes and maintains relationships with Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, Technical Services, Manufacturing, Quality, Legal, Financial and Purchasing functions.
Schedules and adheres to agency approval and test standards required for products in identified target markets.
Assists the Legal Department in managing intellectual property, including new patent filing and legacy patent administration.
Performs all other duties as assigned

People Management

Evaluates team members to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement; collaborates on development actions and ensure resources necessary to complete actions.