Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

The Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the safe, code-compliant design of industrial water-heating, wastewater-treatment, and energy-recovery systems for complex capital projects-delivered on time, on budget, and to scope. The position sets engineering standards, oversees custom engineered-to-order solutions, and provides day-to-day technical direction. The Engineering Manager also drives continuous improvement and builds a flexible, high-performance team through lean practices, coaching, and systematic knowledge capture.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a responsive engineering team from order receipt through start-up and commissioning, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration.
• Develop and deploy equipment, component, and design standards grounded in customer expectations and best practices; maintain the technology roadmap and evaluate emerging water-heating and wastewater-treatment technologies to guide product evolution.
• Provide continual improvement to current equipment, including water heaters and heat-recovery equipment, as well as wastewater equipment, design standards, manuals, and engineering procedures.
• Drive lean/value engineering practices across product lines to optimize cost, performance, and manufacturability. Implement and oversee initiatives in design-for-manufacturability and design-to-cost to ensure projects meet performance, schedule, and margin targets.
• Standardize components and systems wherever possible to streamline design cycles and reduce variability.
• Leverage expertise in engineered-to-order (ETO) and make-to-order (MTO) capital equipment manufacturing to lead the development and deployment of scalable engineering processes.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with manufacturing, operations, and supply chain to improve throughput and reduce lead times.
• Plan and control the engineering budget, capital-expenditure requests, and resource allocation; monitor project costs versus estimates and act on variances.
• Establish business systems, KPIs, and dashboards that expose bottlenecks, drive accountability, and align with company objectives.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a high-performance, cross-trained engineering organization; handle staffing, reviews, feedback, and career development.
• Lead design and risk reviews (DFMEA, HAZOP), manage document control, and ensure compliance with ASME, UL, NFPA, ISO 9001, and internal quality procedures.
• Own engineering documentation (P&IDs, 3-D CAD models, BOMs, manuals); maintain rigorous revision control, release packages to manufacturing/service, and integrate data with ERP/PLM systems.
• Manage supplier and external-engineering interfaces-including specification development, technical reviews, quality verification, and capital-equipment procurement-to ensure delivered components meet requirements.
• Provide technical expertise and cost estimates during bid/proposal phases, collaborating with business-development teams to align scope and mitigate risk.
• Champion lean tools (value-stream mapping, kaizen, 5S, PDCA) and institutionalize tribal knowledge through formal, revision-controlled standards.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, or related discipline)
• Minimum five years of progressive engineering experience in capital-equipment design, with at least three years in an engineered-to-order environment
• Strong fundamentals in heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and process design; familiarity with combustion and wastewater treatment
• Working knowledge of process equipment instrumentation and controls
• At least two years leading a multidiscipline team of engineers, designers, and drafters
• Experience supporting field service and customer technical support activities
• Track record of implementing lean engineering, product standardization, and cost-reduction initiatives
• Demonstrated experience establishing engineering metrics, documenting tribal knowledge, and leading continuous improvement programs
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Licensing or Certifications

• Knowledge of ASME, AWS, UL, NSF, NEC, NFPA, IEC standards

Travel Requirements

• Less than 20% travel

ADA Requirements (U.S. Only)

• Positions in this function typically require typing, sitting, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions.
• Concentrated mental and/or visual attention. The work involves performing complex tasks to very close accuracy and quality specifications, or a high degree of hand and eye coordination for sustained periods.
• The job is typically performed under comfortable working conditions; any disagreeable elements are generally absent during normal performance of job.
• Visits to manufacturing and supplier facilities are required to monitor active projects and address design issues.
• Compliance with company attendance standards.

Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally.