Job Description
Title: Engineering Manager
Location: Miami, FL
Overview:
Sterling has helped build careers for thousands for professionals like yourself. Our expert recruiters support you at every step in the process and as a Best of Staffing company, Sterling provides exciting work with exceptional employers across the U.S.
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision
Bonus/ Incentives/ Stock Options: 401k
Pay: $120-150k depending on experience
Job Summary:
- Our client, a growing custom manufacturing company, is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead engineering operations while serving as a key partner to manufacturing. This hands-on leadership role is focused on driving continuous improvement, supporting production, and leading engineering and CAD teams within a fast-paced job shop environment.
- The ideal candidate will have a strong manufacturing background and enjoy spending time on the plant floor, collaborating with production leaders to improve processes, increase efficiency, and ensure products are designed for manufacturability, quality, and cost. This position requires a leader who can balance engineering excellence with operational execution while developing high-performing teams and supporting business growth.
Job Duties:
- Lead and develop the Engineering and CAD teams while providing technical leadership and support to Production Supervisors and manufacturing personnel.
- Serve as a visible presence on the production floor, partnering closely with operations to resolve manufacturing challenges and improve day-to-day performance.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on increasing productivity, improving quality, reducing waste, and optimizing manufacturing processes.
- Identify production bottlenecks and implement practical engineering solutions that improve throughput and efficiency.
- Lead design-for-manufacturing initiatives to improve manufacturability, reduce production costs, and standardize engineering practices.
- Oversee engineering documentation, including drawings, bills of material (BOMs), revision control, and engineering change management.
- Support custom and engineered-to-order projects by ensuring designs are accurate, manufacturable, and aligned with customer requirements.
- Collaborate with Supply Chain, Quality, and Manufacturing to improve production processes, material utilization, and overall operational performance.
- Mentor engineers, designers, and cross-functional teams while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Support new product development and product enhancements while ensuring seamless integration into manufacturing operations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
- 7+ years of engineering leadership experience within a manufacturing environment.
- Experience leading engineering teams in a custom fabrication, job shop, engineer-to-order, or made-to-order manufacturing environment.
- Proven success driving Lean Manufacturing, continuous improvement, and manufacturing process optimization initiatives.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams, including engineers, CAD designers, and production personnel.
- Strong understanding of sheet metal fabrication, mechanical assemblies, manufacturing processes, and design-for-manufacturing principles.
- Proficiency with SolidWorks, Inventor, or similar 3D CAD software.
- Experience managing engineering documentation, BOMs, engineering change control, and ERP-integrated engineering systems.
- Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering and operations.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Miami, FL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $120,000–$150,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Autodesk Inventorunmatched
- Bill of Materials (BOM)unmatched
- Business Growthunmatched
- Business Supportunmatched
- CAD (Computer-Aided Design) Softwareunmatched
- CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing)unmatched
- Change Controlunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Cost Engineeringunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Document Managementunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Engineering Change Managementunmatched
- Engineering Managementunmatched
- Industrial Engineeringunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Lean Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Designunmatched
- Manufacturing Engineeringunmatched
- Manufacturing Managementunmatched
- Manufacturing Operationsunmatched
- Manufacturing/Industrial Processesunmatched
- Mechanical Assemblyunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Metal Manufacturingunmatched
- Operations Planningunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Designunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Product Supportunmatched
- Production Costingunmatched
- Production Managementunmatched
- Production Supportunmatched
- Productivity Managementunmatched
- Project Designunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- SolidWorksunmatched
- Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM)unmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- System Integration (SI)unmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
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