Senior Regional Manufacturing Engineer Manager– Toro

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Who Are We?    

The Toro Company is a homegrown, Minnesota-based company that has been in business since 1914. We pride ourselves on providing world class equipment to help maintain the environment that we love, while putting an emphasis on giving back to the communities that surround us. From residential lawns and gardens to venues such as St. Andrews Links and Target Field, we are a company with a global footprint and a passion for helping people beautify whatever landscape they may be in.

With 100 years of operation under our belt and an average employee tenure of 15 years, come find out what makes The Toro Company the best place in El Paso to build a career.

As a member of the Global Manufacturing Engineering Team, is a critical contributor in technology strategy formation and leads implementation within their region. Directly manages all site Manufacturing Engineering Leaders in their region. Dotted Line accountability to the Regional Operations Director. Partners with Site Directors to achieve all site performance metrics. Partners with peers in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, NPI Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Test Engineering, and Industrial Engineering to ensure safe, capable, and productive processes are implemented and improved in all regional sites.

What Will You Do? 

In order to grow and build a successful career with The Toro Company, you will be responsible for: 

• Maintains and embodies the absolute commitment to Safety and Quality in all aspects of the regional technical organization

• Direct recruitment, development, and management of site Manufacturing Engineering Managers

• Ensure the effective development of the regional technical organization to meet current and future business needs and provide robust growth opportunities

• Coaches, mentors, and develops technical resources across the organization

• Ensures all technical needs for each site are met working in collaboration with the broader Global Manufacturing Engineering Organization

• Ensures all processes and equipment are appropriately provided, capable and improved

• Ensures appropriate new technologies are incubated, standardized, and deployed as appropriate

• Ensures appropriate skills are developed across the regional Manufacturing Engineering Team

• Oversees the regional capital investment plan and associated projects are executed to plan

• Responsible for ensuring regional performance improvement targets are met in conjunction with site leadership, quality, safety, etc.

• Responsible for ensuring processes and equipment are capable of meeting performance requirements

• Responsible for overall regional process and equipment capability, efficiency, and capacity

• Ensures region capacity is understood, properly maintained, and planned for

• Ensures appropriate standards and documentation in support of manufacturing process are complete and maintained in the region according to global standards and expectations

• Ensures new products are successfully integrated into the region

• Makes sound financial decisions on the most cost effective process to deliver a particular need and adequately documents and defends proposals

• Supports and aligns to Global ME standards and assists in their creation

• Supports Integration (Make/Buy) and Farm Out Decisions within the region to achieve best total cost and avoid sub-optimization

• Fully conforms to Toro Business System initiatives and the deployment of associated practices across the region

• Actively works across the region to reduce risks associated with fixed costs while improving productivity

• Ensures the optimized and efficient use of resources of space, time, labor, energy and material

• Ensures the regional manufacturing engineering team is actively collaborating with global manufacturing engineering peers, other regions’ manufacturing engineers, quality, safety, sourcing, and design engineers

JOB DIMENSIONS:

• Leads a team of up to 10 Site Engineering Managers, each overseeing teams of up to 25 Engineers and…