Engineering Manager

Element has an opportunity for a Product Qualification Testing Department Manager. In this role, your primary focus will be to ensure efficient and orderly operations of all aspects within our fast paced and dynamic Product Qualification Testing Department.

Salary: $110,000 - $160,000/yr DOE

Supervise staff of professionals and non-professionals that are responsible for day to day tasks
• Responsible for managing large complex, multi-disciplinary engineering and testing projects
• Meet with clients to determine their requirements; develop large proposals (larger than $10k) including cost estimates, project plan, and terms and conditions
• Responsible for personnel management of assigned staff including hiring, training, and assignments, performance evaluations, salary administration, discipline, and employee morale
• Responsible for project management including staff assignments, equipment allocations, schedules, and costs
• Responsible for the development and implementation of the annual budget of the department
• Ensure all work is performed in accordance with company procedures and regulatory agencies' regulations
• Establish and maintain client contact for the purpose of market/account development, understanding customer's needs, building personal relationships, assuring quality satisfaction, and maintaining a professional consulting image
• Provide direction and technical decision making for management involving capital asset purchases and expensive for projects and/or strategic initiatives

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or other related science preferred
• 10+ years' experience of increasing responsibility in product development/validation or other related testing is required
• Proven success leading and managing a large department, including responsibilities customer projects are often >$10k in value
• Experience in interpreting testing procedures and requirements as well as writing proposals and reports
• Experience in managing complex business relationships, both internal and external, where conflicting priorities of team members must be managed with customer satisfaction, safety and quality are primary goal
• Availability, flexibility, and maturity to represent the company at a broad range of events in the community, with customers and within the company
• Ability to remain calm when faced with mounting pressure related to deadlines and multiple priorities
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills to meet a variety of communication needs. Good interpersonal skills that foster open upward and downward communication built on mutual respect
• Ability to interface with clients, win new work and determine their requirements; develops proposals including cost estimates, work plan and terms and conditions

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to 'Make tomorrow safer than today'.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming "the world's most trusted testing partner".

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.