Engineering Manager

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Job Description

The Engineering Manager will lead and strengthen a growing product engineering team within an industrial manufacturing environment, bringing structure, discipline, and best practices to support significant operational growth. This role plays a key part in the company’s transformation toward operational excellence, including increasing production volume and implementing a new ERP system from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong, hands-on leadership to the product engineering team, setting clear expectations and driving accountability for quality, schedule, and performance.
• Introduce and enforce engineering best practices, processes, and standards to bring discipline and consistency to product engineering activities.
• Lead the implementation and development of a new ERP system from scratch, ensuring effective integration with engineering, manufacturing, and materials planning.
• Define, structure, and maintain accurate bills of materials (BOMs) and related engineering documentation to support manufacturing, MRP, and inventory control.
• Oversee new product development and product engineering efforts, from concept through design, prototyping, and release to production.
• Guide and support the use of 3D CAD and other design tools to create robust, manufacturable designs for metal fabrication and assembly operations.
• Collaborate closely with operations, manufacturing, and other cross-functional teams to align engineering output with production capacity and business objectives.

Essential Skills

• 10–15+ years of engineering experience, with significant experience in engineering management within industrial manufacturing.
• Proven track record leading product engineering teams and driving implementation of engineering best practices.
• Strong experience with ERP systems, including standing up a new ERP from scratch and integrating engineering and MRP functions.
• Deep understanding of bill of materials (BOM) structures and their role in manufacturing, planning, and inventory control.
• Industrial manufacturing experience with metal fabrication, including steel and aluminum forming, welding, painting, and assembly.
• Strong sense of urgency, decisive personality, and the ability to push initiatives forward in a fast-paced environment.
• Expeirence mechanical engineering or closely related engineering discipline.
• Experience in product engineering and product development, including design for manufacturability in a fabrication and assembly context.
• Proficiency with 3D CAD design tools for product and component design.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (BS Engineering) or equivalent technical degree.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with operations, manufacturing, and leadership teams.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience in industries such as work trucks, HVAC, electrical equipment, or switchgear is highly valued.
• Prior responsibility for implementing or significantly upgrading ERP and MRP systems in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to build and implement new engineering and operational strategies that support growth and transformation.

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Greensboro, NC.

The pay range for this position is $75.00 - $84.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully onsite position in Greensboro,NC.

This position is anticipated to close on Sep 4, 2026.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications withoutregard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability,sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protectedby law.

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