Product Engineering Manager

POSITION: Manager, Product Engineering

LOCATION: Superior Essex International Inc., 2900 Morris Sheppard Dr. Brownwood, TX 76801

JOB DUTIES: Provide leadership and act as a technical liaison on projects and activities involving product specifications, product development, standard BOMs/costs, industry standards, and part number management. Duties include:

• Manage the generation of standard bills of materials used to respond to customer requests for quotation and standard costing;
• Responsible for the overall operation and implementation of systems to support cable design and the standard BOMs (Cablebuilder);
• Submission of annual standard BOMs to support frozen cost standards with Finance;
• Manage the creation, review and implementation of technical (Design) specifications to comply with industry standards and specific customer product requirements;
• Manage the systems and processes for the assignment of finished goods raw material and WIP part numbers;
• Provide input and project review for product development projects;
• Manage corporate representation in Industry Codes and Standards activities, including ICEA, Telcordia and U;
• Manage systems and data acquisition processes to ensure compliance with various Buy American statutes for Superior Essex products;
• Provide review and technical response to Request for Quotes;
• Manage Product Engineers in 2nd level technical support for Sales and communicate with customers when required to discuss product requirements;
• Travel to plants, customer locations and standards meetings when required;
• Manage the objectives, priorities, and travel for all direct reports.
• Travel (domestic/international) required less than 10% of the year.

 MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering or a related field, or significant equivalent work experience in a technical position in the wire and cable industry.
• 4 years of experience working with the communications cable industry.

CONTACT: Any applicant who is interested in this position may send resume to Sonja Baxter Sonja.Baxter@spsx.com. Please reference job #OM072026.

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• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or significant equivalent work experience in a technical position in the wire and cable industry.

• Experience in wire and cable manufacturing is highly preferred.
• 4 years’ experience working with the communications cable industry.
• Knowledge of standard bills of materials and costs.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Advanced math skills
• Ability to demonstrate logical thinking in problem solving
• Demonstrated knowledge of cable manufacturing, product design and industry performance standards.