Engineering Manager
Actuant Corporation is a $1.5B diversified industrial company with operations in more than 30 countries. The Actuant businesses are market leaders in branded hydraulic and electrical tools supplies, umbilical, rope and cable solutions, as well as highly engineered position motion control systems. Actuant business operations are divided into four segments focused on the niche markets we serve: Industrial, Energy, Electrical and Engineered Solutions. Actuant trades on the NYSE under the symbol ATU.
For over 30 years, Hydratight has provided world-class bolted joint solutions and machining services to the Power Generation, Oil and Gas, Industrial and Aero industries. Today, the breadth and depth of our product and service offering is unrivalled in our specialist field. Through our ability to innovate technology that makes connections safe, efficient and environmentally friendly, Hydratight sets international standards in joint integrity, providing trusted solutions to customers on a global scale.
The Engineering Manager is r esponsible for the management of multiple projects and co-ordination of the mixed discipline design engineering team to ensure product delivery within agreed timescales. Progress research concepts to development phase. Interface with the commercial side of the business to ensure customer goals/product specifications are achieved on time, within cost and to specification.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Acting as working leaderof the Hydratight Nuclear product engineering team. The team is responsible for taking new and specialist products within the nuclear support business from concept through to completion and providing all necessary documentation to enable product launch.
- Take an active role along with Product Management in developing and implementing departmental procedures.
- Take a pro-active involvement in customer application evaluations including customer visits and liaison with commercial colleagues.
- Responsible for allocating day to day workload to the Nuclear team engineers and ensuring deliverables are met.
- Responsible for conducting weekly update meetings involving all Nuclear team engineers and updating Product Management accordingly.
- Responsible for filtering information from engineering pool to allow swift actions to be taken to maximize project deliverables
- Responsible for assessing the training needs of the Nuclear engineering team.
- Responsible to the Product Management in assessing new product viability, this includes conceptual evaluations and assessments.
- Assisting other internal Hydratight engineering teams with best practice solutions.
- To have final sign off on non-standard calculations and, when deemed necessary, liaise with other technical resource internally and externally to ensure solutions are properly engineered.
- To ensure that Nuclear and specialist products are properly documented, rationalized and updated as required.
- Responsible for allocating adequate time to ensure that engineers also update commercial documents generated by the Nuclear team.
- Be actively involved in the promotion of company design process and procedures for global consistency.
Required Skills
Qualified candidates will possess:
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent in electrical mechanical or mechanical engineering with, or be working toward, member grade registration of a recognized professional body.
- Understanding of electrical circuitry and wiring diagrams, if only mechanically qualified.
- Experience in the design and design management of safety critical, PLC controlled hydraulic equipment preferably in the bolting products/tensioning industry.
- Understanding of hydraulic stud tensioning principles.
- Troubleshooting skills and leadership of team, including field service reps, in troubleshooting during critical field events.
- Familiar with and capable of preparing formal Root Cause Analyses.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Leadership, interpersonal, planning/organizing, analytical and influencing talent required.
- Proficient in the use of Solid Works and Pro/Engineer 3D computer aided design.
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD 2D computer aided design preferred.
- Working knowledge of Structural Analysis using first principles and FEA packages preferably Pro/Mechanica, COSMOS ANSYS.
- Proficient with MS office applications, particularly Word, Excel, Outlook and Project.
