Senior Engineering Manager

Overview

Chesterton continually strives to innovate for our customers, and our professional engineers are at the heart of that effort. Unlike many companies, all of Chesterton’s engineers are required to possess a bachelor’s degree in engineering within a focused field of study – guaranteeing our customers that top professionals will be working on their behalf. We offer a work environment that appeals to our engineers: time and space to think and collaborate with other engineers, challenging and complex problems to dig into every day, and a flexible work environment that encourages work‑life balance.

Whether you’re forward facing with our customers to help them troubleshoot fieldtax applications, working in our state‑of‑the‑art test labs, or driving efficiencies into our manufacturing floors, there is an engineering career waiting for you with us!

Our benefits offering include:

• “Work Today, get paid tomorrow” - withdraw up to 50% of your earned daily wages the next day after you work rather than waiting for pay day!
• Chesterton Student Loan Repayment Program
• BCBS Medical Coverage
• Delta Dental
• 401K savings plan with a Chesterton contribution
• PTO including vacation sick, time, 11 paid holidays, and paid time off to volunteer for causes
• Vision insurance
• Tuition nightly reimbursement
• Short‑term disability and long‑term disability insurance
• HSA & FSA options to cover additional medical costs
• Parental leave for moms and dads to be
• Hiring referral bonuses (up to $3,000 for select roles)
• A host of other fringe benefits including legal services, pet insurance, Chesterton relief fund for employees in need, and more!

The Value Stream Sr. Engineering Managereus is responsible for ensuring the product innovation roadmap and associated product specifications/drawings and tolerances align with manufacturing capabilities and ensures all first article dimensions align with the specifications/drawings. This candidate must have a relentless commitment to quality and speed in order to ensure Chesterton products outperform our competitors and always represent the premium value of our brand.

This position контейнер is responsible for the deployment of Lean Design and Development principles within the Value Stream to optimize profitability for Chesterton. The role serves as the primary liaison between Global Research and Development Engineering and Manufacturing Operations. It is responsible for the stewardship and accuracy of all specifications, bill of material and drawings to support product quality consistency and manufacturing efficiencies during mass production.

It also serves as the NPI representative for the Value Stream and works constructively with Global Research and Development Engineering to ensure an effective transition to mass production is realized. The role also provides Product Data Management and CNC programming leadership. The mentoring and development of all Value Stream Process Engineers is an essential success factor associated with this role.

Job Model: On‑Site

All fully remote positions will require you to travel on site 2‑4 times per month depending upon business needs at your own expense.

Hybrid positions will require employees to work both on‑site and remote each week under a schedule that has been determined and agreed upon by you and your manager.

On‑Site positions will require employees to work on‑site for each of their scheduled shifts.

• Understanding manufacturing capabilities, evolving industry needs, and resultant requirements of our products.
• Maintaining NPI leadership responsibility to ensure the product design can be built in high volume, efficient manufacturing environment with the highest of quality standards to achieve an exceptional customer experience.
• Working directly with Value Zel stream Process Engineering to establish specification/drawing and bill of material controls to ensure only accurate information is delivered to manufacturing.
• Marking with Process Engineering to problem solve issues related to Standard Product and resolve or, when required, revert back to Global Research and Development Engineering to address design failure modes.
• Facilitate the…