Lead a team by example to create value for our clients by helping them innovate and elevate solutions within their manufacturing facility. 

Do you want to be the anchor for a cutting edge consulting team which helps manufacturing facilities of tomorrow by consulting state of the art solutions today? Does having a company care about your career today and building themselves around your skillset important to you? Does an environment where your opinions matter excite you? Are you a natural born leader and a self starter? If so, you have found your next calling!!

Grantek is a recognized leading provider of integrated automation, smart manufacturing and industrial information solutions in the global marketplace. Our clients are some of the worlds most respected Fortune 100 companies and recognized consumer brands: Mondelez, Brita, MolsonCoors, Coca-Cola, Kraft-Heinz, to name a few.

We offer an atmosphere where you can express your creative ideas and talents by working on a variety of projects and technologies. Using today’s leading edge technology, you will partner with clients to solve their most complex manufacturing and industrial information problems.

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package, retirement matching, company paid benefits, flexible work hours, and an education/career development program. For more information on what Grantek offers, visit: https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/1366407

We are committed to providing a positive and healthy corporate culture, one that empowers employees, promotes knowledge-sharing, and encourages strong friendships and social connections amongst all team members. We are a team of dedicated Engineers and Designers with an average of 7 years’ tenure at Grantek. The vast majority of our employees have started off their careers at Grantek and have grown into successful senior team members who are integral to our client's manufacturing processes.

At Grantek it is our top priority to provide an excellent environment to our team by offering them the support and space irrespective of where from where or how they choose to work. Our employees enjoy the flexibility of working in different ways such as flexible hours, ability to work 100% remote, hybrid, or in person. Feel free to share your preference with us and we will make the best suitable option work for you!

The Sales Engineering Manager provides direction and supervision to a team of Sales Engineering employees at Grantek. This includes ultimate responsibility for growing, leading and managing a direct team. The Sales Engineering Manager is also responsible to collaborate with other departments for personal and organizational success.

Essential Duties:

• Determine ongoing, short-term and long-term team staffing levels and requirements; maintain appropriate staff levels by participating in the recruitment process; to include determining new hire requirements, interviewing and selecting employees for hire.

• Review, analyze, and implement staffing plans that promote the most effective use of team resources.

• Mentor employees on all aspects of their roles and jobs; at minimum, conduct individual monthly employee review meetings against individual objectives; help direct reports overcome any organizational obstacles encountered.

• Work with the Client Success leadership team to meet or exceed annual Client Success Department objectives, in turn contributing to Grantek achieving its short-and long-term Corporate Goals.

• Build and maintain a team of knowledgeable, skilled employees who function in compliance with all regulatory requirements and Grantek’s objectives, and meet the needs of the Client Success Department – in turn meeting the needs of Grantek’s customers

• Accomplish overall team performance standards by communicating job expectations to direct reports; this will include planning, monitoring, appraising job results; coaching employees; developing, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards.

• Ensure employees are up-to-date on industry/technology best practices, new laws and regulations impacting work, and other information necessary to provide knowledgeable, accurate work output.

• Monitor and assess individual employee engagement levels amongst the team in an effort to ensure employees retain a highly positive experience.

• Develop, foster and promote a positive and fulfilling work environment; be accountable for employee retention within team.

• Engages in employee recognition on a regular basis.

• Perform regular reviews of direct reports’ work; mentor and lead direct reports in regards to best-in-class design and engineering principles, tools, methodology, and quality results expectations
  
  Department Success:

• Determine manpower requirements based on business needs; allocate use of available resources and delegate resources to appropriate tasks, including scheduling of resources

• At a high level, be aware of and oversee the design, specification, and implementation efforts of the solutions created by their applicable team. Guide and enforce good design practices in all cases.

• Maintain quality within team by enforcing quality and engineering standards; analyzing and resolving quality and customer service problems; identifying trends; recommending systematic or other improvements; perform final quality review of material prior to client release (standards and checking) as appropriate.

• Interview and meet with staff regularly to detect issues/changes/inaccurate reporting with regards to Quality standards.

• Provide technical support to other Departments / Business Units as needed.

• Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory and customer standards/practices amongst team when working on opportunities.

• Meet with the Director to review KPIs, and Objectives

• Be an exceptional leader, providing wide reaching thought leadership across Grantek

• Contribute to Sales Engineering Department Continuous Improvement efforts and initiatives.

• Actively keep up to date with new and relevant emerging trends as related to their discipline; determine direction and planning for future strategies; review professional publications; establish personal networks; benchmark state-of-the-art practices

• Bring forward suggestions and ideas to improve or develop departmental or company systems and practices; but also receive suggestions and ideas from colleagues, customers, and superiors

• Advanced knowledge and skills in business practices and standards

• Engineering or Business degree in related discipline, or equivalent accreditation or demonstrated experience; 

• Leadership and management experience: 

• 3-5 years' experience successfully leading and managing teams of consultants, engineers and / or technologists, in North America

• Recognizes potential shortfalls within the department and takes initiative to resolve with some coaching provided by the Director, Sales Engineering

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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