Chief Engineer

Wall Colmonoy
United States, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City
4700 Southeast 59th Street (Show on map)
Mar 06, 2025
The Chief Engineer provides direction and resources to assist their team with researching, planning, and designing mechanical and electromechanical products and systems, and directs and coordinates activities involved in fabrication, operation, application, installation, and repair of mechanical or electromechanical products and systems by performing the following duties. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Able to effectively use metrics and analytics to manage the growth of the business, make effective decisions, continually improve and drive accountability. Understand the financial impact of profit/loss, return on investment and budget management. Researches and analyzes data such as customer design proposal, commercial and military specifications, and repair manuals to determine feasibility of design or application. Designs products or systems such as heat transfer equipment, aircraft exhaust components, tooling and test equipment. Creates manufacturing plans and bills of material in WCC manufacturing software. Directs and coordinates fabrication and installation activities to ensure products and systems conform to engineering design and customer specifications. Consults with operation, maintenance, and repair activities to obtain optimum utilization of machines and equipment. Designs products and systems to interface machines, hardware, and software. Evaluates field installations and recommends design modifications to eliminate component or system malfunctions. Ability to interface between engineering and internal and external customers. Ability to travel to customer sites, other divisions and technical conferences. QUALIFICATIONS (Knowledge/Skills/Education) Bachelor Degree in Manufacturing, Materials, Mechanical Engineering - Master's Degree preferred. Minimum of 10 years' experience in manufacturing or industrial engineering, machine design, manufacturing process development, value engineering or product engineering. Strong interpersonal skills, ability to organize, and excellent communication skills. 3D modeling and drafting skills. Strong knowledge of precision tools and measuring equipment. Project management experience and related skills. LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public. MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis. REASONING ABILITY: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret and extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES: Employee must be proficient using computer word processing and spreadsheet software. Must be well-versed in the use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) software and have the ability to use this software to develop product designs as well as do simple computer aided machine programming. The individual must be capable of effective verbal and written communication with other employees, customer and suppliers. He/she must have the ability to take projects from inception to completion using intuitive and creative capacities. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.