Engineering Manager, Innovation

The innovation manager is a key link among the various aspects of new product development and the customer, improving methods and providing insight. The incumbent helps strategic direction and prioritization of new product and/or new business model design efforts. Ensures the proper application of engineering and business practices, procedures, and criteria while ensuring the goals of learning, demonstration and commercialization are met for the project portfolio. Develops market facing team and development team structure as required to meet evolving market and customer needs.

Advises senior leadership regarding industry best practices. Develops parallel processes that support adjacent and transformational innovation, translating those processes to the core business as appropriate. Develops partnerships that go beyond customer-supplier relationships.

Partnerships accelerate learning for and development of new innovative offerings while mitigating risk for all parties. Responsible for assuring the appropriate skills, applications knowledge, personal development, and supporting tools are present in the department to support current and future program needs. Interacts with multiple sites and functional areas, and many levels of leadership, while devising new approaches to customer opportunities uncovered and to problems encountered. Interacts directly with distributors and customers in defining needs and opportunities and establishing collaborative relationships for providing solutions.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Leadership ? Reviews, Development, and Compensation – Assists the associate with the development of challenging goals. Coaches the associate for continually improved performance. Evaluates performance and development progress of direct reports and makes compensation recommendations. Addresses conflict and performance issues. ? Teamwork (morale) – Creates and maintains an environment that promotes teamwork, energy, and efficiency. ? Staffing – Manages staffing requirements to support project workload through associate development, transfers, and hires. Balances resources within, and among departments based on changing priorities. Assists engineers and technicians in the prioritization of tasks and activities for multiple projects. Facilitates cross-functional, market based, team approach. Department ? Project – Assists the team leader(s) with directing resources towards the attainment of goals associated with identifying, acting on and delivering on innovative opportunities. Drives the appropriate application of innovation methods and engineering tools. ? Strategic – Assists with the development, implementation, and/or execution of strategic objectives. Advises others in company on how to solve problems using established and emerging innovation tools. ? Planning / Prioritization – Leads the prioritization of project and department activities towards department, Engineering, and company objectives. ? Tools/Creativity – Develops and promotes the utilization and successful application of new methods for rapidly identifying, assessing and acting on new business growth opportunities ? Budgeting – Assists with the establishment of departmental budget targets, analyzing variances, and identifing cost reduction opportunities. ? Interfaces with management to implement and/or make decisions, guide projects, and to provide input to complex personnel issues. ? May lead a corporate project or initiative. ? Responsible for justifying purchase of new capital equipment, hardware or software, as needed to enable department performance and/or project success. Approximate # of direct reports (if applicable) – approximately 10; # Temporary Reports: about 1 to 3 (engineering co-ops, interns, contractors) Budget responsibility (if applicable) – Assists with departmental budget, equipment maintenance & justification for new purchases

Requirements

Education: 4-year degree in an engineering discipline with continuing education. Advanced degree in engineering or business preferred

Experience: Prior supervisory experience Demonstrated leadership (hiring, motivation, coaching, team building) Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams Familiarity with innovation processes including value analysis, experimentation and iteration History of developing successful partnerships that advance business goals 5 years of supervisory experience Skills/Knowledge: Facility with solid and fluid mechanics, electrical and electronic systems, materials properties and processes Ability to manage multiple priorities and complex problems. Excellent problem solving skills including use of data based decision making (DPS, DoE) Excellent written and verbal communication skills Solid project management experience Strong business acumen and commercial decision making MS-Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint Extensive experience working with customers at all seniority levels, including assessing spoken and unspoken needs and demonstrating solutions to meet those needs Preferred: Knowledge of complex and applied engineering principles highly desirable Knowledge of broad range of fluid system components and applications highly desirable Familiarity with IOT technologies and applications Experience, or ability to become quickly familiar with procedures for offering evaluation Some experience desirable in automated data acquisition and analytics Experience in a customer facing position Knowledge and understanding within target markets and applications Critical Competencies: • Developing Others • Influence • Conflict Management • Teamwork and Collaboration • Organizational Awareness Working Conditions and/or Physical Requirements: • Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards. • Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards. Swagelok is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Applicants are selected without regard to race, ethnicity, creed, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin or ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran/military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristic under federal, state or local law. Swagelok will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. Swagelok will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. This job summary is intended to be brief and does not list all the duties for this position. Nothing in this job description should be construed as an express or implied contract of employment. Swagelok is an at-will employer, which means that either party is free to terminate the employment relationship at any time, without any advanced notice, for any reason or no reason. Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCPhere.