Engineering Director

As an Engineering Manager at Sterling Engineering Inc., you will work with a global leader in foundry solutions. This role offers the opportunity to drive innovation and excellence across the entire metal casting process, from melting and molding to surface preparation.

• Evaluate and enhance engineering and application performance metrics for OEM and aftermarket business, ensuring standardization, clarity, and accurate measurement of organizational activity and customer fulfillment.
• Lead the departments towards a focused structure, process, and performance metrics aligned with ISO procedures and work instructions, including systems utilization like Bluestar and Solidworks.
• Develop North American Engineering & Applications metrics in collaboration with the management team and Sales & Service Leader to meet business requirements.
• Oversee engineering cost estimation accuracy, adherence to cost estimates, on-time engineering commitments, design accuracy, absorbed engineering hours, warranty, and corrective actions.
• Ensure proposal speed, accuracy, SPIN-based proposal development, and risk assessment for Applications.
• Provide leadership to the management team by supporting goal-setting, ensuring a safe workplace, exercising good judgment, setting a positive example, and providing effective feedback and communication.
• Lead organizational development through skills assessment, identifying team development requirements, and coordinating training and mentoring programs.
• Optimize resource utilization and talent management to effectively meet customer requirements on time.
• Develop strong interfaces with the supply chain organization to review engineering contributions, improve manufacturability, and resolve design-related issues.
• Foster collaboration with the Sales and Service team to support application development, technical support, and proposal-to-order conversion rates.
• Coordinate with the North American organization to develop solutions for the regional Parts formation and Parts Preparation businesses.
• Engage in customer travel as required to develop and advance industry expertise.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant Engineering field (Master's degree preferred).
• Minimum of 10 years of direct Engineering management experience (operational experience in the industry is a plus).
• Strong computer skills in Excel, Access, Windows-based Office software, and 2D and 3D design software (Solidworks preferred).
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving abilities.
• Willing to collaborate with Global Product Groups and Centers for Product Innovation.