Manager, Electrical Engineering

About the Position

Körber Technologies, Inc., a Sales and Service Company serving the North American Tobacco Industry, has an outstanding career opportunity available for a Manager, Electrical Engineering to join our team. The Manager, Electrical Engineering leads the electrical engineering function supporting new custom developments, series machines, refurbished machinery, and electrical obsolescence kits for domestic and international markets. This position provides technical and people leadership to electrical designers, programmers, and technical clarification personnel and is responsible for team capacity, design quality, project execution, technical problem-solving, and collaboration with customers and global engineering partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware and software design activities for new local developments, research and development projects, series equipment, machine refurbishments, and electrical obsolescence solutions.
• Provide technical direction for team solutions, oversee design reviews, and organize testing as needed.
• Oversee technical clarification activities, including maintaining processes and schedules and ensuring thorough audits of kits and machinery.
• Lead, challenge, and motivate a diverse technical team performing complex and detailed work.
• Support employee training and day-to-day work by managing capacity planning, workloads, assignments, priorities, design software, engineering standards, and technology training.
• Collaborate with global headquarters on development projects and maintain strong working relationships with research and development, engineering, and management teams.
• Partner with Sales on quotations, project planning, labor estimates, and parts cost estimates.
• Lead technical discussions with customers and coordinate solutions with internal and external stakeholders.
• Conduct feasibility studies, prototyping activities, and full development projects.
• Monitor project scope, schedules, and budgets while successfully managing competing priorities.
• Collaborate closely with Mechanical Engineering, Project Management, Production, Service, Purchasing, and other partners to plan projects and resolve issues.
• Network with customers and global company groups to identify needs, develop creative solutions, and support new product development.
• Support personnel development, performance management, and knowledge sharing across the team.
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area and perform all duties in accordance with company safety requirements.
• Travel domestically and internationally as needed to support projects, customers, installations, commissioning activities, and other business requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Seven or more years of experience in high-speed automation design and development.
• Hands-on engineering experience with panel design and automation programming.
• Experience managing engineering teams and technical projects.
• Experience supporting personnel development and employee growth.
• Strong knowledge of electrical hardware design, panel design, automation programming, and related engineering disciplines.
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering teams and provide technical direction on complex projects.
• Excellent project management skills, including the ability to monitor scope, schedule, budget, quality, and competing priorities.
• Strong organizational, capacity planning, workload management, and prioritization skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional, and international environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to evaluate technical needs and develop practical, creative solutions.
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills, including the confidence to present to customers and senior management.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, SAP, and Microsoft Project.
• Experience with Siemens, AMK, Beckhoff, ELCAD, and EPLAN is considered an asset.
• Experience with agile management methodologies, such as Scrum, is considered an asset.
• Working knowledge of German is considered an asset.
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally as business needs require.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working hours
• Paid vacation
• Vacation purchase program
• Sick days
• Paid holidays
• 401k Plan with a $1 for $1 match up to 6% of your base income
• Medical, dental, vision insurance plans
• Basic life and disability insurances, both short and long term, paid by employer
• Voluntary life insurance purchase program
• Training and Development Program

About the Company

At Körber Technologies, Inc., you will work in an innovative, friendly, diverse environment. You will work with experienced colleagues and will have opportunities to advance your career. Körber Technologies, Inc is part of an exciting industry. As a company, we value our long-term relationships with our customers who value us and our innovative solutions and flexibility.

• You will work for a company who values its employees and their contributions.
• You will work for a worldwide organization and will develop partnerships with your colleagues throughout the globe.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity to all applicants. All hires to our team are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. It is our policy to give equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to legally protected characteristics, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state/provincial, and/or local law.

Apply now and join our team!

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We value diversity and therefore welcome all applicants - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity, and any other protected status. You can find out more about our culture here.

We are committed to providing an accessible working environment. Applications from people with a recognized disability under German law, including people with severe disabilities or equivalent status, are expressly welcome. We would appreciate it if you could voluntarily indicate this directly in your CV or cover letter so that we can support you as effectively as possible throughout the process.

If you have any questions or technical problems, please send us an e-mail to [email protected].

Raven Pinckney is the responsible person for this job advertisement. We work with permanent partners and therefore ask recruitment consultants to refrain from contacting us by e-mail or telephone.