The Manager owns engineering capacity and the capability to do the work.
This seat answers for whether the engineering function can carry the pipeline: headcount against it, the cost of running the function, hiring, and the promotion decisions that turn engineers into reviewers.
It also owns the capability plan: which skills the function needs, and the training and tool investment behind them. The estimating and design method itself stays with Senior and Principal Engineer. This seat funds and staffs the standard; it does not write it.
It shares ownership of the solution methodology and the technology roadmap with the Manager, Solutions Engineering: which technology classes and third-party partners the department can offer, and the analysis practice behind the concepts. The two seats hold it together, so what we can design and what we can price stay the same list.
Innovation – We create a culture of relentless improvement of solutions and processes to make every day better.
Integrity – We are open, honest, and committed to giving the straight story every time.
Service – We serve our clients, families, communities, and most importantly our people who are empowered and safe in making decisions and taking actions that dare to make us better.
Ownership – We take full, personal, individual responsibility for our actions and our work.
Partner
They bring
You keep
Manager, Solutions Engineering
The design and analysis side of the methodology and the roadmap, held jointly with this seat
The estimating side of the same
Principal Engineer
The method review and the technical standard
The promotion decision that follows it, and the investment behind the standard
Supervisor, Applications Engineering
Day-to-day management of the engineers
Headcount, bands and the capability plan
Offering Manager
What the queue needs, week to week
How much engineering capacity exists
Manager, Proposal Development
Proposal capacity and the proposal standard
Engineering capacity and capability
Director, Applications Engineering
Priorities and approval
The function’s ability to deliver against them
Language. Presents capacity, capability and hiring cases to senior management, and writes the bands the function hires against. Mathematical. Capacity modelling, utilization, cost of engineering hours against order intake. Reasoning. Distinguishes a capacity problem from a method problem, and does not solve one with the other.
Travel to customer offices, sites and other Fives entities as required, typically under 20%.
Advancement to Director, Applications Engineering.
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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus. Travel via automobile and/or commercial airline to customer offices for meetings, vendor’s plants, and job site to coordinate the conveyors or equipment with the building and installers.
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 is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, outside weather conditions, risk of electrical shock, and risk of radiation. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, unless performing work in shop or field conditions.
Fives, an industrial engineering group, designs and supplies machines, process equipment and production lines for the world's largest industrial players. Fives' multisector expertise provides a global vision of industries and markets that yield a continuous source of innovation.
The Group's industry knowledge and depth of experience enable the management of complex projects while respecting deadlines and fulfilling performance commitments.
Fives R&D programs design forward-thinking industrial solutions that anticipate clients' needs in terms of profitability, safety, while maintaining compliance with environmental standards.
This strategy is backed by a human resources policy that is focused on the individual, encourages initiative-taking and technical excellence.
As a technology-driven company and with an active portfolio with more 2,000 patents, Fives aims at being a benchmark player in the development of the plant of the future.
