Mechanical Engineering Manager

Position Summary: Our standard and custom high-speed automated packaging equipment enables our customers to excel in highly competitive food and pharmaceutical industries. We thrive for developing, adopting and enhancing our portfolio to lead the industries with new innovative technologies and solutions. The Mechanical Engineering Manager is an integral role in Syntegon’s success in leading the world’s packaging machinery market.

In this role, the manager is leading and developing a great team of mechanical engineers, working on process excellence and supporting the business with technical and product guidance for concepts and solutions to meet our customer’s high expectations. This is a fast pace, dynamic and team centric work environment that requires self-motivation and independence paired with empowerment to be impactful for the organization.

Leadership tasks and responsibilities:

• Provides guidance and direction to the engineering team, along with providing clear objectives, smart goals to ensure designated achievements are met and developing individual talent.
• Implements a culture of empowerment and accountability.
• Empathic and team-oriented leader with overall responsibility for performance and quality of engineering designs.
• Scheduling and prioritizing team’s tasks and resources to meet the needs of sales orders, customer service requests and improvement projects.

Strategic tasks and responsibilities:

• Participates in defining and communicating the company’s and department’s improvement strategies and being accountable for its implementation.
• Analyzes, designs, and executes continuous process improvements to increase department efficiency, quality, and performance.
• Participates in global business teams and represents the site needs regarding mechanical engineering topics.
• Participate in the definition of development plans and portfolios with an emphasis on opportunities to improve machine design.

Technical tasks and responsibilities:

• Maintains engineering release and revision control procedures, designs, standardization and configuration history of shipped machinery.
• Coordinates and facilitates technical support to sales, purchasing, and assembly.
• Responsible for ensuring internal engineering standards are maintained and products follow applicable codes and standards.
• Ensures robust technical training material is developed and maintained to facilitate accurate transfer and preservation of technical knowledge.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have a minimum of 5+ of experience in automated packaging or similar capital equipment
• Must possess a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Technology.
• Must have at 6-8+ years of work experience in an Engineering discipline.
• Must have a minimum of 4+ years of experience supervising or managing a team of engineers.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree in engineering or MBA a plus.
• Excellent leadership, decision making, and communication skills.
• Strong team orientated, along with strong organizational and time management skills, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Lean/Six Sigma experience with strong process/workflow design skills.
• Proven performance in similar role.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and resources.
• Ability to motivate teams in order to achieve required objectives. Ability to collaborate with many other teams.
• Confident personality with strong customer service.

Syntegon Technology is a proud supporter of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Initiatives

• FIRST Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
• AWIM (A World In Motion)

By choice, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce.

Compensation for roles at Syntegon varies depending on a wide array of non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, degree/credentials, relevant skill set, and level of relevant experience. At Syntegon compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Total rewards at Syntegon include salary + bonus (if applicable) + benefits.

The expected compensation range for this position is between $126,825 to $140,175 based on a full-time schedule.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

NOTE: All official Syntegon job postings can be found at www.syntegon.com.  Successful candidates asked to participate in the hiring process should expect to speak to the hiring team by telephone and in person at one of our Syntegon office locations (Decatur, Oldsmar, Raleigh, New Richmond, Minneapolis and Allendale) prior to the job offer.

Syntegon Technology is a proud supporter of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) initiatives:

• FIRST Robotics (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
• AWIM (A World In Motion)

By choice, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce.
We do not discriminate in hiring or employment against any individual on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, citizenship, or any other factor protected by anti-discrimination laws.