**Date Posted**:
2024-08-01
**Country**:
Mexico
**Location**:
LOC5013: UTAS - GAMEC, Venustiano Carranza # 238-D Desarrollo Industrial Colorado, Mexicali, 21397 Mexico
**Position Role Type**:
Unspecified
Collins Aerospace is looking for an **Associate Director of Engineering** who will provide engineering functional leadership for a team of 70+ engineers in Design, Stress, Equipment, Tooling and Program Engineering disciplines.
You will ensure Functional Excellence within the Mexicali Design Center.
You will also play a critical role of integrating the Mexicali Design Center with the Engineering Functional Excellence team at Aerostructures (U.S.) and with the Mexicali site.
You will achieve this by ensuring employee engagement, developing and growing a collaborative culture and ensuring integration with the functional Engineering team.
In addition, you will engage in day-to-day leadership of engineering execution to support the business, provide sufficient capacity and skills to maximize productivity and develop talent for future growth.
- ** Position will be working onsite at our Mexicali, MX facility.
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**What You Will Do**:
- Manage staffing, retention and attrition to support the needs of Engineering
- Career growth and support through the regular performance reviews
- Provide mentorship and guidance to engineering team
- Provide training and growth in engineering function
- Drive early career talent locally from through University and school engagement
- Pulse score and leadership effectiveness survey actions
- Collaborate with the site to provide local engagement and development of skills and experience with manufacturing
- Collaborate with functional leaders to provide engineering engagement at the Mexicali site level
- Provide path of escalation should issues arise
- Lead strategic vision for the Mexicali Design Center
- Represent and advocate for the Design Center team on local site leadership meetings
- Oversee and support budgets and financial planning, including indirect and CFE spending, to ensure alignment with program and business objectives
- Communicate and make presentations to senior level leadership
- Travel up to 10% internationally when circumstances permit
- Perform other duties as required
**What You Must Have**:
- Requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) unless prohibited by local laws/regulations and typically a minimum of 12 years prior relevant experience or** **an Advanced Degree in a related field and typically a minimum of 10 years of experience
- Experience managing a team of professional engineers both domestically and internationally
- Experience with Continuous Improvement tools and methodologies
- Project Management experience
- Must be authorized to work in Mexico without sponsorship now or in the future.
Collins Aerospace will not offer sponsorship for this position outside Mexico Region.
**What We Prefer**:
- Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, ACE or CORE
- Experience with mechanical design and/or stress analysis
- Experience with SAP
- Experience in the Aerospace Industry
- Experience with Nacelle or aircraft components
**Diversity drives innovation; inclusion drives success**.
We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers.
We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.
Our Advanced Structures team leverages advanced materials and additive manufacturing to develop complex interior and exterior solutions.
These solutions ensure structural integrity of the aircraft, help aircraft take off and land, stay trim in the air, move forward, carry cargo and conduct rescues.
We delight our customers with superior products and best-in-class service.
Our global team is committed to continuous improvement - we work hard to make our solutions lighter-weight, stronger and more technically advanced, so that plane travel can be safer, more affordable and more sustainable in the years to come.
We are looking for the best and brightest to fly and land with us!
**Onsite**: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite.
This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.
At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility.
And the bonds we form - with our customers and with each other - propel us all higher, again and again.
**_ RTX is An Equal _**_Opportunity/Affirmative_**_ Action Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class._**
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