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With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.

Founded in Denver, Colorado in 1937, BAND-IT is acknowledged as the global market leader in high quality engineered fastening systems for harsh duty applications. At BAND-IT, a unit of IDEX Corporation, we continuously strive to be the world’s best engineered fastening solutions company by focusing on building a dynamic, highly skilled global team.  If you are striving for career growth in a results-oriented environment that truly cares about your success, then BAND-IT may be the place for you. This is an incredibly exciting time of ambitious growth for BAND-IT as we continue to build upon our existing invaluable resources with new technologies, competencies, and talent to ensure our sustainable success.

The Global Director of Engineering will support the needs of our global sales teams for new product development and sustaining engineering actions to keep our product portfolio competitive now and in the future. This new member of the senior leadership team will promote and enable increased collaboration for our technical team members with the goal to drive increased investment in people, process and products to support our growth strategy.

SUMMARY OF JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: 

The Global Director of Engineering oversees product engineering and quality assurance engineering programs by ensuring proper engineering procedures are followed. This position manages the planning, organizing, controlling, integrating and completion of engineering projects. 

REPORTING TO: President

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Leads, plans, assigns, coordinates and evaluates the work of engineering function across 3 teams including Global Product Engineering, Denver Manufacturing Engineering, and Denver Quality Engineering.

• Global Product Engineering:  supports the needs of our global sales teams for new product development and sustaining engineering actions to keep our product portfolio competitive now and in the future.  Ensures new product development (NPD) follows well-structured engineering phases e.g., voice of customer gathering, ideation, concept validation, testing and production, etc.
• Denver Manufacturing Engineering:  designs and implements production processes and systems to obtain high-quality and cost-competitive products including investments in new manufacturing technologies.

• Denver Quality Engineering:  optimizes product quality ensuring compliance to pre-determined standards as well as manage our quality management system and tools. Ensures that Quality Assurance programs are effective in driving operational excellence and industry quality compliance e.g., IATF 16949, ISO9001.Leads Performance Management of engineering staff and ensures that they plan and meet SMART performance goals and objectives. Conducts timely and constructive performance feedback evaluations.
• Manages engineering staff development and workforce planning.  Provides training and mentoring as needed.
• Consults with GM/President, Regional GMs, VP of Sales and Director of Operations to determine mid to long term engineering priorities and projects. 
• Oversees progress and timeliness of projects.  Reviews project reports to ensure projects are on schedule and within budget.
• Champions root cause analysis and corrective action process across the various engineering functions.
• Leads the review of customer quality requirements and direct Product Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, and Quality Engineering Project Plans accordingly (e.g. for engineering drawing specifications design, manufacturing process design and quality assurance design to ensure customer requirements are met.) Performs other related duties as required.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND REQUIRED ABILITIES:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent managerial and supervisory skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Extensive technical knowledge of engineering and product development.
• Excellent understanding of industry-driven quality programs.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and engineering software.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering required; Master’s degree in Engineering or Business Administration preferred.
• At least ten years of related experience required.

Essential Functions:

The physical, mental/visual and work environment demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
• Ability to traverse manufacturing facility.

Work Environment:

• Time is primarily spent in a climate-controlled office environment with balance in the shop.
• Noise exposure is moderate.

Mental/Visual Demands:

• Close vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus are necessary to perform the job functions.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies to perform the essential functions of this position.

• Problem solving:  The individual identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner and gathers and analyzes information skillfully
• Interpersonal Skills:  The individual maintains confidentiality, remains open to others’ ideas and exhibits willingness to try new things.
• Relationships with Others: The individual works effectively and relates well with others Including superiors, colleagues, and individuals inside and outside the Company. The employee exhibits a professional manner in dealing with others and works, to maintain constructive working relationships.
• Communication and Contact: The individual communicates effectively both verbally and in writing with superiors, colleagues, and individuals inside and outside the Company.
• Planning/organizing:  The individual prioritizes and plans work activities, uses time efficiently and develops realistic action plans.
• Quality control:  The individual demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness and monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Adaptability:  The individual adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands and is able to deal with frequent change, delays or unexpected events.
• Dependability:  The individual is consistently at work and on time, follows instructions, responds to management direction and solicits feedback to improve performance.
• Safety and security:  The individual actively promotes and personally observes all safety procedures.   The individual complies with Environmental, Safety, and Hazardous Communications requirements. 

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

Total Rewards

The compensation range for this position is $132,600.00 - $198,800.00, depending on experience. This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.

Benefits Package

Our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits, 401(k) retirement savings program with company match, PTO, and more. More information on our benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: https://www.idexcorp.com/careers/our-benefit-and-rewards/

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws (Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled).

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