**Job Description:** **Division Description:** ITW Electronics Assembly Equipment (EAE) Division is made up of four brands strongly recognized by Contract Manufacturers and OEMs in the Electronics and Industrial Markets. The Division designs, develops, manufactures, and markets capital equipment primarily used in the assembly process of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and other industrial applications. To learn more, please visit www.itweae.com **Position Summary:** This is a highly visible, impactful position within global engineering leadership team leading a multi-site, high-performing group of hardware engineers responsible for design, development and supporting all Electronics Assembly (EA) equipment products. This role collaborates cross-functionally with product management, marketing, sales, and manufacturing groups to ensure developing high quality, differentiated products to drive business growth. He/she will operate in a global, dynamic and highly inclusive environment with support from engineering and business leadership to be successful in the role. The US engineering manager maintains overall responsibilities of departmental budget, capital appropriations, resource capacity, effective deployment, and proper follow-throughs. He/she drives performance excellence through setting annual performance goals and objectives and conducting periodic and annual performance reviews of the team members. As a key people leader of the global engineering organization, he/she actively coaches/mentors team members to enable career/professional growth. The US engineering manager drives functional excellence to ensure team members maintain proper level of technical proficiency, competency and are provided with ample continuous learning, growth opportunities.They promotes global, cross-functional communication, collaboration to maximize productivity of the team in product development/support/sustaining activities. He/she provides formal periodic updates to senior management and other key Research & Development personnel. **Job Responsibilities:** + Maintains overall responsibility of US sites (Hopkinton, MA and Camdenton, MO) – people, engineering process, infrastructure/logistics, compliance, budget. + Allocates resource, tracks status, and updates as appropriate. Provides engineering department input to long range and annual plan. + Promotes functional excellence – training, communication, collaboration. + Acts as a coach/mentor to enable career progression, growth, and continuous development. + Performs hiring, performance management, and actions to ensure retention. + Maintain alignment on business priority with global, cross-functional teams. + Ensures performance excellence through goals/objectives setting, periodic reviews, annual evaluation, and appropriate follow-through actions. + Drives quality of design, development, testing to ensure product development excellence. Rigorously follows design review process to ensure high quality outcomes. + Participates in projects reviews and ensures timely completion of relevant tasks/activities to meet project timeline and budget. + Creates culture, environment of empowerment, accountability, and ownership to foster career, professional growth of team members. **Required Skills and Experience:** + Strong leadership skills including communications, collaboration, team building/leadership, training, coaching, and mentoring. + Experience with hiring and building a cohesive team in a technical environment as well as developing technical personnel through their career paths, both in program management and technical areas. + Demonstrated capability of leading engineering team. + Effective performance management skills. + Demonstrable experience in preparing and managing department budget. + Effective verbal and written communication skills. + Proven problem definition, root cause analysis, problem solving experience (technical, non-technical issues). + Adaptive/situational leadership skills. + Influencing, negotiation and conflict management skills. **Preferred Skills and Experience:** + Project management skills including the ability to plan, organize and conduct technical programs within the timeline and financial constraints. + Formal training and experience in managing technical project including mechanical, electrical, software development. + Ability to develop detailed estimates of resource allocation, prototype expenses and general ROIs for proposed programs. + Electronics circuit board manufacturing process and material knowledge with a minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience. + Experience with design and development of complex electro-mechanical systems. + Ability to conceptualize new ideas based on marketing/customer requirements and follow through various development phases and into product introduction. + Demonstrated experience of operating including effective communication in global, cross-functional environment. **Education:** + Requires a bachelor’s degree (preferred Master’s) in Engineering and a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience including 5+ years engineering project, people management experience. **Working Conditions/Physical demands:** + Normal working conditions involve seated computer work and occasional operation and work on company equipment/products. + Travel up to 30%. A valid passport is required. + This position can be located either in Hopkinton, MA or Camdenton, MO location with frequent travel between sites. ITW is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the online application system process due to your disability, please email jsoares@itweae.com to request assistance. No other requests will be acknowledged. **Compensation Information:** The pay rate will depend on the successful candidate’s qualifications and prior experience. The range for this position is :$120,000 - $189,000 (annually). Enjoy competitive compensation and generous benefits that includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life and LTD insurance, Paid Parental Leave, 401k (with match), a generous tuition reimbursement program and more. _ITW is an equal opportunity employer. We value our colleagues’ unique perspectives, experiences and ideas and create workplaces where everyone can develop their careers and perform to their full potential._ _As an equal employment opportunity employer, ITW is committed to equal employment opportunity and fair treatment for employees, beginning with the hiring process and continuing through all aspects of the employment relationship._ _All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws._