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This role sets priorities, develops the team, supports production needs, and ensures work is completed safely, on time, within budget, and to customer, quality, and financial requirements.\nResponsibilities\nLead and develop the engineering and program management team by setting clear priorities, assigning ownership, coaching performance, and building independent problem-solving, accountability, technical capability, and readiness for expanded responsibility.\n\nPromote a culture centered on safety, quality, respect, urgency, disciplined execution, teamwork, and continuous improvement.\n\nManage program launches, engineering changes, and capital projects to approved timing, scope, budget, safety, quality, and performance requirements; identify risks, delays, and cost variances early and implement clear recovery plans through verified closure.\n\nLead capital equipment sourcing and purchasing in accordance with Linamar approval requirements, from technical scope and supplier evaluation through installation, acceptance, and project closeout, ensuring approved budgets and performance criteria are achieved.\n\nLead APQP and actively maintain PPAR from award through launch and stabilization to accurately reflect program health, open risks, action ownership, gate readiness, spending, deliverables, and recovery plans.\n\nOversee the deliberate selection, development, industrialization, and validation of manufacturing processes against quoted cost, capacity, quality, safety, and performance assumptions.\n\nEnsure engineering standards and launch documentation, including PFMEAs, process flows, control plans, work instructions, PPAPs, and Q-Gate reporting, are accurate, current, practical, completed on schedule, and consistently used.\n\nPartner with Operations and Maintenance to assign, prioritize, communicate, and resolve production, process, equipment, quality, capacity, cost, and workflow needs through timely, practical solutions and sustained corrective action.\n\nOwn accurate, competitive, and complete engineering inputs for costing and quoting, supported by documented manufacturing concepts, cycle times, labor, tooling, capital, launch costs, capacity, timing, feasibility, assumptions, and risk assessments.\n\nDrive measurable, financially and operationally validated improvements in safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, scrap, downtime, capacity, equipment reliability, and profitability, ensuring results are sustained after implementation.\n\nApply technology, data, controls, robotics, and automation to deliver verified improvements in efficiency, repeatability, labor utilization, safety, quality, and cost while eliminating repetitive work where practical.\n\nIntegrate safety and quality requirements into engineering decisions, maintain required training and controlled documentation, and support incident investigations and corrective actions.\n\nPerform other duties as assigned.\n\nAcademic Requirements\nBachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field is required; a master's degree is preferred.\n\nExperience leading new product launches, capital projects, manufacturing process development, and cross-functional improvement initiatives is required.\n\nAutomotive manufacturing experience is preferred.\n\n Required Skills & Experience\nDemonstrated leadership capability in a manufacturing environment, including the ability to set direction, align resources, hold people accountable, and build an effective team.\n\nStrong project and program management skills, including scope control, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, prioritization, and execution through closure.\n\nDemonstrated ability to use PPAR and other Linamar program management systems to manage gates, risks, actions, timing, cost, and launch readiness.\n\nWorking knowledge of capital equipment sourcing, technical specifications, supplier evaluation, capital requisitions, approval workflows, budget tracking, equipment acceptance, and project closeout.\n\nStrong manufacturing costing and quoting capability, including development and critical review of process assumptions, cycle times, labor, tooling, capital, launch costs, capacity, and technical risk.\n\nStrong working knowledge of APQP, PPAP, PFMEA, process control, engineering change management, and structured problem solving.\n\nDemonstrated capability in manufacturing process selection, process development, industrialization, automation, and the application of technology to improve operating performance.\n\nAbility to analyze technical and financial information, compare actual performance with plan, and make sound decisions based on facts.\n\nAbility to communicate effectively with customers, employees, suppliers, and leaders at all levels of the organization.\n\nDemonstrated ability to support Operations in a fast-paced manufacturing environment by responding to production needs, working directly at the process, balancing immediate containment with permanent corrective action, and maintaining clear ownership through closure.\n\nAbility to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, multi-shift manufacturing environment without losing accountability for details or deadlines.\n\nProficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint; experience with project management and manufacturing systems is preferred.\n\nAt least 10 years of progressive manufacturing engineering experience, including leadership or supervisory responsibility.\n\nWhat Linamar Has to Offer\n401k Program\n\nOpportunities for career advancement.\n\nSustainability Counsel\n\nCommunity based outreach supporting both local and global initiatives and charities.\n\nDiscounts for local vendors and events, including auto supplier discounts.\n\nAbout Us\nLinamar Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and encourages diversity in the workplace without regard to any basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. 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