Engineering Manager

Company Overview

SonicAire’s Core Focus is to show God’s goodness to our partners and communities through proven fugitive dust solutions that create safer, healthier, and more efficient work environments. SonicAire is a growing company seeking to maintain our entrepreneurial spirit while developing more robust, scalable, and sustainable business processes to support our growth. As such, we utilize the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to run our company.

A key component of EOS is RPRS – Right Person, Right Seat. All personnel decisions are based on RPRS. Right Person is determined by alignment with SonicAire’s Core Values: Hungry, Humble, People Smart, and Grateful. Right Seat is determined by an individual’s ability to occupy a particular position based on whether or not he/she Gets It, Wants It, and has the Capacity to do it.

Position Summary

The Engineering Manager leads SonicAire's Engineering Department by developing people, implementing and improving engineering processes, and ensuring the successful execution of engineering initiatives that support our customers and company growth. As the functional leader of Engineering, this role partners with Production and Supply Chain to provide innovative, high-quality solutions from the Operations Division.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

•Lead, Manage, and hold the Engineering team Accountable (LMA)

•Foster SonicAire's Culture, Core Values, and Innovative Spirit in the engineering department

•Develop and improve engineering processes, standards, metrics, and documentation

•Maintain CAD drawing files, file structure, and database (2D and 3D)

•Champion Lean/5S initiatives and continuous improvements efforts

•Plan, prioritize, and assign engineering resources to see projects from concept to implementation

•Establish project scopes, schedules, milestones, and success criteria in collaboration with Leadership

•Provide technical leadership through design reviews, engineering guidance, and technical approvals

•Effectively communicate project expectations to team members in a timely and clear fashion

•Lead new product development efforts in partnership with Sales, Marketing, and Service

•Lead product improvement initiatives that enhance quality, manufacturability, reliability, and reduce cost

•Manage third-party certifications (UL), including new projects and existing files

•Support Operations by resolving technical issues and vetting new components and materials

•Partner with Production and Supply Chain Managers to achieve Operations goals

•Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, and presentations that support decision-making

•Optimize and organize physical engineering spaces (R&D, 3D Printers, Dust Testing, Engineering Office)

•Perform other related duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Required

o Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline

o 5+ years of engineering experience in a manufacturing environment

o Experience leading engineering projects from concept through implementation

o Working knowledge of manufacturing processes, including sheet metal, welding, machining, and assembly

o Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop technical professionals

o Experience with 2D drawing, 3D modeling, and project management software

o Ability to build relationships and work effectively across Operations, Sales, Service, and Business Administration

• Preferred

o 2+ years of supervisory or engineering leadership experience

o Experience with Additive Manufacturing, Lean Manufacturing, 5S, and continuous improvement methods

o Experience with ERP systems and engineering document control

o Knowledge of electrical systems/components, industrial controls, or UL/CSA certification requirements

o Experience with new product development and introduction

Success Factors at SonicAire

The success of the person in this position is in direct correlation to their ability to live out SonicAire’s Core Values at all times:

•Humble: Great team players lack excessive ego or concerns about status. They are quick to point out the contributions of others and slow to seek attention for their own. They share credit, emphasize team over self, and define success collectively rather than individually.

•Hungry: Hungry people are always looking for more. More things to do. More responsibility to take on. Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. They loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.

•People Smart: The ability to be interpersonally appropriate and aware. They tend to know what ishappening in a group situation and how to deal with others in the most effective way. They ask goodquestions, listen to what others are saying, and stay engaged in conversations intently. They have goodjudgment and intuition around the subtleties of group dynamics and the impact of their words andactions.

•Grateful: Grateful people express sincere appreciation often and use details to convey authenticity.Grateful people reframe a loss as a potential gain, a conflict as an opportunity, and a mistake assomething to learn from.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

•Physical demands: While performing duties of the job, incumbent is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, climbor balance, kneel, crawl or crouch, use hands to handle, or feed objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands andarms; talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift, push, pull or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilitiesrequired by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and theability to adjust focus.

•Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborneparticles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud.