Manager, Data Engineering
Work Mode: Onsite
Location: Onsite - Kohler, WI
Opportunity
The Global Engineering Manager of Product Data Management sets the strategic direction and roadmap for transforming how engineering product data is managed. This role leads a global team responsible for defining, creating, governing, maintaining, auditing, and releasing critical product data that enables and supports all downstream business processes
Specific Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high performing team of data engineers by providing coaching, clear direction, and effective performance management.
- Foster a culture where collaboration, teamwork, responsibility, and ongoing growth are core values.
Recruit, onboard, and grow top engineering talent to build organizational capability.
- Oversee team workload, ensuring effective prioritization, resource allocation, and capacity planning to meet business needs.
- Demonstrate and lead others to exhibit behaviors and actions that: Delight Customers, Inspire People, Boldly Innovate, Own It and Prioritize
Data Strategy & Architecture
- Define and execute data engineering strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with organizational business objectives.
- Lead the design, creation, and ongoing maintenance of data structures and hierarchies that enable robust product data management.
- Ensure data models, structures, and platforms are built for scalability, high performance, and long-term sustainability.
- Implement and validate data rules and business logic that support core business processes, including the setup of new plants and warehouses.
- Provide expert guidance and training on product data management principles, business rules, and process expectations.
- Partner with data governance and security teams to uphold data standards, enforce compliance, and drive continuous improvements in data quality.
- Partner with Engineering Systems on the development of tools and solutions that enhance the capture, management, and control of product data.
- Oversee the engineering change process to ensure accurate and timely execution.
- Collaborate closely with IT on SAP-related initiatives, including system implementations, enhancements, and ongoing development.
Technical Execution
- Manage, load, and publish product engineering and manufacturing data.
- Support and implement global ERP projects.
- Process Bills of Materials and other critical manufacturing information.
- Maintain and update essential manufacturing data.
- Support label printing setup and configuration.
- Ensure data systems remain highly available, accurate, and high performing.
- Automate and monitor data pipelines to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
- Load and audit product data across systems.
- Coordinate and validate engineering data within the PDM environment
Skills/Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Supply Chain, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
- 6+ years of experience in data engineering or related technical roles, including at least 2 years in a leadership or people management capacity.
- Strong technical expertise in SAP and related enterprise systems.
- Demonstrated success driving business improvement initiatives.
- Proven change management experience in complex environments.
- Knowledge of PDM best practices and experience with PLM/PDM systems.
- Experience leading and collaborating with global teams.
- Solid understanding of data governance principles and data management best practices
- Background in product development with a strong understanding of product lifecycle processes.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to define a clear vision and translate it into actionable, near term goals.
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills, effective at all levels of the organization.
- Operates with candor, enthusiasm, resilience, and a strong drive to achieve business results.
- Analytical and detail oriented, with strong planning skills and a creative, solutions focused mindset.
- Travel 15-20%
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