Employment Opportunities with L&R Industries.

Lead the engineering functions for new and legacy products ensuring the team maintains its focus on project completion, profitibility and achievement of strategic company goals while providing the highest level of support to our cross functional downstream customers, dealers and end users. This role requires strong technical expertise, leadership skills, and a commitment to driving innovation and excellence.

Essential Functions:

• 5 + years of experience directly leading, managing, and supervising engineers, drafters, and technicians.
• Manage and lead a team of talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and career development support.
• Develop and coordinate departmental goals that excite team members and support company strategy.
• Lead collaboration with other departments to ensure seamless project execution.
• Prioritize tasks and motivate employees to accomplish departmental objectives on time and without errors.
• Drive culture of continuous improvement, operational efficiency, and high-quality standards within the engineering team. 
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment that encourages open communication, creativity, and diversity of thought.
• Coordinate job training, both for new employees and cross-train exisiting employees.
• Evaluate employee performance, both informally on a day-to-day basis, and as a part of the company performance management system, developing performance objectives and development plans.
• Oversee development and maintenence of employee competence and as necessary issue corrective action, up to including termination, as needed according to company policy and in consultation with Human Resources.
• Ensure that employees follow company procedures, safety practices, company policies, and applicable engineering and certification standard.
• Create and maintain methods to measure and report real-time departmental results to drive continual improvement.
• Monitor team productivity and project milestones, proactively identifying and addressing potential risks and issues. 
• Hands-on participation in engineering design and all other aspects of department work assignments and tasks.
• Perform other duties as assigned, based on workload and business need.

Job Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering. Advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years experience directly supervising and managing engineers in a similiar manufacturing environment.
• Project management experience leading cross functional teams preferably through a Stage Gate process.
• Design and/or manufacturing engineering experience with agricultural and/or construction attachments is highly desired.

Technical/Function:

• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and mentor team members.
• Demonstrated success in managing and delivering complex engineering projects from conception to completion.
• Effective problem-solving skills and the ability to make sound and timely decisions under pressure.
• Demonstrated ability to present material in a professional manner to management and review boards.
• Experience in hiring, onboarding, adn developing engineering talent.
• Ability to apply design for 6 sigma techniques. 
• Proven design for manufacturability experience.
• Advanced 3D modeling and drafting skills.
• Advanced GD&T knowledge.
• Ability to understand and interpret engineering drawings.
• Working knowledge of computers suffecient to successfully use required drafting software, company ERP system, Microsoft Windows and Office.
• Ability to understand and interpret manufacturing procedures and applicable engineering and certification standards.