Who Are We?    

At Ditch Witch in Perry, Oklahoma we pride ourselves on being the leading manufacturer in the underground pipe and cable market. Our plant in Perry stands out because it's a place for people to learn and thrive. We enjoy coming to work because our plant is our community, we see our teammates not only as co-workers but as neighbors and family members. All of our locations build the intricate network of machinery that contributes to The Toro Company. We contribute to building communities, cities, and the world. We invite you to apply and join a team of highly skilled, and highly passionate people.

As a member of the Global Manufacturing Engineering Team, is a critical contributor in technology strategy formation and leads implementation within their region. Directly manages all site Manufacturing Engineering Leaders in their region. Dotted Line accountability to the Regional Operations Director. Partners with Site Directors to achieve all site performance metrics. Partners with peers in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, NPI Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing Test Engineering, and Industrial Engineering to ensure safe, capable, and productive processes are implemented and improved in all regional sites.

What Will You Do?  

In order to grow and build a successful career with The Toro Company, you will be responsible for: 

• Maintains and embodies the absolute commitment to Safety and Quality in all aspects of the regional technical organization

• Direct recruitment, development, and management of site Manufacturing Engineering Managers

• Ensure the effective development of the regional technical organization to meet current and future business needs and provide robust growth opportunities

• Coaches, mentors, and develops technical resources across the organization

• Ensures all technical needs for each site are met working in collaboration with the broader Global Manufacturing Engineering Organization

• Ensures all processes and equipment are appropriately provided, capable and improved

• Ensures appropriate new technologies are incubated, standardized, and deployed as appropriate

• Ensures appropriate skills are developed across the regional Manufacturing Engineering Team

• Oversees the regional capital investment plan and associated projects are executed to plan

• Responsible for ensuring regional performance improvement targets are met in conjunction with site leadership, quality, safety, etc.

• Responsible for ensuring processes and equipment are capable of meeting performance requirements

• Responsible for overall regional process and equipment capability, efficiency, and capacity

• Ensures region capacity is understood, properly maintained, and planned for

• Ensures appropriate standards and documentation in support of manufacturing process are complete and maintained in the region according to global standards and expectations

• Ensures new products are successfully integrated into the region

• Makes sound financial decisions on the most cost effective process to deliver a particular need and adequately documents and defends proposals

• Supports and aligns to Global ME standards and assists in their creation

• Supports Integration (Make/Buy) and Farm Out Decisions within the region to achieve best total cost and avoid sub-optimization

• Fully conforms to Toro Business System initiatives and the deployment of associated practices across the region

• Actively works across the region to reduce risks associated with fixed costs while improving productivity

• Ensures the optimized and efficient use of resources of space, time, labor, energy and material

• Ensures the regional manufacturing engineering team is actively collaborating with global manufacturing engineering peers, other regions’ manufacturing engineers, quality, safety, sourcing, and design engineers

JOB DIMENSIONS:

• Leads a team of up to 10 Site Engineering Managers, each overseeing teams of up to 25 Engineers and Techs

• Works with multiple Site Directors, and Global Engineering Leaders

• Oversees capital budget of $5 to $60M annually

• Defines and deploys strategy

• Leads teams located in multiple remote manufacturing sites

• Accountability in complex and difficult cost effective problem solving including negotiating, written, and verbal communication with Division stakeholders

• Travel 20-35%

    

  What Do You Need?  

  To be considered for this role, an individual should meet the following minimal requirements: 

• B.S. in Engineering, M.S. Preferred

• At least twelve years of experience in engineering including a minimum of four years of engineering management

• Experience with appropriate manufacturing processes e.g. weld, paint, assembly, extrusion, injection molding, metal fab

• Fluency in primary language(s) of region’s plants

• High degree of self-direction and tolerance of ambiguity.

• Ability to write technically

• Ability to work effectively across levels from shop floor to Director level

• Ability to support work at remote sites

• Willingness to adjust working hours as necessary to ensure effective support of region

• Technical knowledge of electrical and mechanical manufacturing and assembly systems

• Strong preference for experience with Advanced Manufacturing Techniques such as Industry 4.0 and Automation

  What Can We Give You?     

  At Ditch Witch, we are always working to make sure our employees know just how valued they are. In addition to a competitive salary, an affordable and top tier medical/dental/vision plan, 401k, and many other great benefits – Ditch Witch offers employees at our Perry, OK location a variety of perks, including: 

  Dress for your day - We know you're more productive when you're comfortable, which is why employees are encouraged to take advantage of our casual, office-plant blended environment.

  Wellness - In addition to physical wellbeing, TTC offers a variety of mental health, financial health, and other types of resources to every full-time employee.

  Growth Opportunities – TTC prides itself on giving our employees the chance to grow their careers. Tuition reimbursement, opportunities to move into new areas of interest, and promotion opportunities are a few examples.

  Competitive Salary – The pay range takes into account skills, experience, education, and location. It is not common to be hired at or near the top of the range; compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Cash compensation is one piece of our competitive total rewards package. If you need to, you can access your pay early with the One@Work app, formerly the Even app.

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  We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based factors. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.