Take the lead in engineering activities in order to obtain optimum productivity and quality levels while complying with customer specifications. Responsible for the overall development and administration of the Engineering Process. Coach and develop engineering team members Establish and review process controls, emphasize continuous improvement and improve productivity through waste reduction. Responsible for achieving product target cost, improved efficiency, identifying possible production problems for existing products. As a part of the plant leadership team, the Engineering Manager will be involved, process flows, labor and machine standards. All proposed plans for changes to the process, equipment, molds, and tooling are to be reviewed by the Engineering Manager to ensure reliability and compatibility with existing Grammer standards/systems Support multiple projects and work with the plant to maintain third party registration to ISO/IATF standards. Support product launch strategy Review equipment and process design and make recommendations Develop workflow, effective layout and optimize processes Assist in quoting and contracting tool sources to build support tooling Evaluate and implement process/product improvements Work with the team to develop tooling and poke yoke methods Assist with training of both technical and production in processing standards Develops short- and long-term strategy to support customer requirements Authorizes engineering change notices (deviations), process alerts, purchase orders, equipment spare parts inventory, and personnel training requests Supports plant safety rules Approves department expenses and appropriations requirements