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Senior Engineering Manager - Fire Resistance & Containment

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Hybrid
Northbrook, IL, USA
155K-160K Annually
Senior level
Hybrid
Northbrook, IL, USA
155K-160K Annually
Senior level
Leads regional engineering operations for fire resistance and containment services, overseeing strategy, P&L, budgets, forecasting, revenue, project throughput, customer relationships, business development, and operational delivery. Builds organizational capabilities, manages and develops leaders, drives performance and transformation, and ensures compliance with company policies. The role requires strong business and financial acumen, customer engagement, and leadership within a testing, inspection, and certification environment.
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JOB DESCRIPTION
This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in Northbrook, IL.
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Develops, executes, and implements operational strategy for the region to drive.
  • Organic/inorganic growth and profitability while ensuring customer satisfaction through a deep understanding of the customer and market intelligence.
  • Responsible for P&L activities; manages annual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly budget breakdowns ensuring
    financial targets (revenue, profit, enterprise value, etc.) are met. Responsible for managing costs within assigned
    budgets. Responsible for reporting and forecasting, workflow overviews and providing input into growth targets for customers and the region.
  • Closely monitors and manages revenue from engineering activities, including unbilled, aging, and inactive projects,
    work on hand analysis to ensure balance of demand and throughput.
  • Drives and leads initiatives to identify new and/or additional business opportunities for the COU Anticipates customer needs by creating strong partnerships with Sales and Business Development. Provides proactive solutions for new business opportunities to secure revenue, profit margin, market share and customer satisfaction. Builds customer intimacy and establishes strong relationships through customer visits, analyzing business data and market trends.
  • Participate in client seminars, conferences, and trade shows. Implements and executes capacity and capability
    strategies. Reviews project status, project management, ensures operational delivery, and closes any gaps.
    Successfully translate customer needs into an operational plan to fulfill projects with the right resources (availability,
    skillset).
  • Drives a high performing team by managing the performance and development of team leaders and members.
  • Operates effectively in the UL matrix to actively support and drive high-performance culture changes, transformation efforts, and people engagement. Holds leaders, team, and self, accountable for results; defines accountabilities and establishes performance objectives and metrics to execute strategy. Develops and coaches by providing, training, career counseling, feedback, guidance to drive high-performance and morale.
  • Ensures understanding of and compliance with all established policies and requirements. Communicates and exemplifies UL's Vision and Mission. Leads, promotes and embraces change for self and team. Collaborates and
    builds trust within the organization and with customers to meet or exceed their expectations. Develops strong, flexible cross-functional networks and global relationships to promote becoming the fastest, highest quality and most customer-friendly organization. Coaches and mentors leaders and employees to do the same.
  • Read and follow the Underwriters Laboratories Code of Conduct and follow all physical and digital security practices.
  • Performs other duties as directed.

QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or similar.
  • 8+ years of Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) or fire resistance and containment products industry experience.
  • Strong leadership experience. Experience managing leaders preferred.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work with diverse groups within the company and customers.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
  • Ability to coach and mentor.
  • Demonstrated business and financial acumen.

What we offer:
Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated salary range for this position is $155,000-160,000 and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).
Learn More:
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ABOUT US
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Our buildings don't just shape our skylines - they provide the backdrop to our lives. And knowing they're safe matters. We've been helping to create safer structures since 1894, combining our expertise with innovative new technologies to help make sure both people and property are secure. As more people have to deal with extreme weather, we're on hand to test products and building materials to increasingly rigorous standards. Whether we're simulating tornadoes or testing smoke alarms, the work we do on our team is used in buildings around the world to - quite literally - help save lives. Join our team and build your skills, build innovative solutions and help build a safer world.
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