Sr Technical Manager
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Kansas City
Posted on: May 4, 2024
Job Description:
Summary
Manages and coordinates the activities of major technical functions
at a business unit level, typically with Technical Managers and/or
Engineering Process Supervisors as direct reports .Duties and
Responsibilities
- Confers with staff personnel to plan and resolve technical or
administrative problems affecting all facets of production or
development projects.
- Using formal business systems, drives planning and execution of
projects through technical managers, lead staff and others.
- Sets work execution priorities as needed and ensures issues and
other critical information is shared and escalated
appropriately.
- Consults and coordinates with other managers to formulate
solutions for generic technical or administrative problems.
- Plans, evaluates and approves policies and procedures affecting
engineering operations and ensures compliance.
- Develops budgets and monitors expenditures for personnel,
capital equipment, tooling, expenses and process development
activities to assure compliance with financial plans.
- Participates on committees and task teams established to study
strategic long range projects and to ensure the attainment of
established goals.
- Reviews applicable information, metrics and technical reports
to monitor the organization's overall effectiveness and its
progress toward continuous improvement, and takes action to address
issues identified during such reviews.
- Confers, communicates and innovates with design agency
counterparts regarding product designs during development and
manufacturing related issues during production.
- Plans and implements programs for the career development of
personnel within the organization.
- Acts as a facilitator to promote teamwork and excellence in all
of the organization's activities.
- Actively manages change.
- Directly supervises employees and performs other managerial
responsibilities including interviewing, hiring, and training
employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising
performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing
complaints and resolving problems.
- Conducts activities in a safe and healthy manner and works in
accordance with established HS&E requirements to ensure the
protection of employees, the public, and the environment. Takes
actions necessary to "stop" work when an unsafe condition or action
is identified. Every employee has the right and responsibility to
stop work when unsafe conditions or actions are identified.You Must
Have
- US Citizenship required in order to obtain and maintain US
Department of Energy Q-level security clearance.
- Nine (9) years overall experience in engineering or
manufacturing environment.
- Must also have 2 years' experience in directly managing a
team.
- Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering discipline from an
ABET-accredited institution or Bachelor of Science degree in a
physical science from an accredited institution.We Value
Keywords: Disability Solutions, Lee's Summit , Sr Technical Manager, IT / Software / Systems , Kansas City, Missouri
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