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Genuinely recommend this organization. If it's "harder" for larger organizations to improve work by respecting humanity, Nestlé Purina North America sure doesn't show it. One of the few companies that I'd truly recommend for your own growth and joy at work. #continuousimprovement #engineering #respecthumanity #improvework #consciousleadership #cpg #manufacturingexcellence #openjobs

Design systems are booming. The demand for top-tier design system engineers is increasing. From Series A start-ups to Fortune 500 companies worldwide, we are seeing an increased demand for: > Senior, Staff and Principal IC’s > Team Leads > Managers > Directors / Head of Engineering Design systems are becoming a top priority for many companies.

Can you help a lead engineer out?   They are looking to become an Engineering Manager.   Their current company has engineering managers but they aren’t technical, so they would be the first.   They need to write.   • A job description • Progression Framework • Goals • What good and great looks like   I’m looking to connect them with Engineering Managers, Heads of Engineering, Directors of Engineering and CTOs.   Comment or DM me if you could help.   #softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment #careerprogression

Should an Engineering Manager be hands-on? I have come across many opinions on this topic. I recently hired an Engineering Manager who was required to be hands-on while managing a team of 10 ICs. To me, this is not feasible. IC engineers would likely suffer in this setup because they would not be given the focus they need to help them with their career development. The common theme I encounter is that engineering managers require a technical background, without a doubt. However, most engineering managers should NOT be hands-on as this can divert attention away from the primary goal of a manager: increasing the team's focus to produce better work. As a manager, you can measure your success by how well your team can operate when you are not there. 

Considering a degree in engineering? Meet Tyler Allen, an Engineering Manager at Amanda Manufacturing! He’s sharing some valuable tips on the paths aspiring engineers can take in college, and into their careers. Explore open opportunities at Amanda Manufacturing and kickstart your career today! 💼🔧 #MajorsInManufacturing #EngineeringCareers #AmandaManufacturing #MichiganEngineering #CareerTips #JoinUs #AmericanMade #MichiganMade #ExpertEngineers #AmandaMade #Engineering #STEM #STEMCareers #Technology #Innovation #JoinOurTeam #MichiganEngineers #MichiganBusiness

In one of the threads, a question was raised that made me think about high-level engineering roles. The question was about the difference in engineering leadership and management. I think this deserves a repost. My response was as follows: "In a way, an engineering leader is a more difficult job than a people manager. You are still required to stay current on the technologies, without actually practicing them as much as you used to. As another comment stated, it's about building teams that build the tech. You would be the person who is juggling overarching technical concerns that more junior positions do not necessarily concern themselves with. Enterprise projects usually involve several technologies working together to form the complete picture, like pieces of a puzzle. An engineering leader is the person who's "putting the puzzle together", or at least instructing the organization as whole on how to proceed, and that requires engineering knowledge."

The hardest part of building a "good" tech company, is building a good engineering team. And you cannot build a good engineering team if you don't love the engineering yourself. That is why unlike every other business, most of the successful tech companies are founded by engineers instead of businessmen. Ultimately those engineering-founders turn into businessmen, but the core of the business surrounds heavily around engineers. They are the raw product of a good tech company. The company can have a vision, a plan, and goal to aim for, but if the raw material is not good, the end product is never going to be decent enough. #teambuilding #hiring #engineering #tech

Yesterday someone said to me that the true Engineering Managers job description is: To enable really smart people to make them look good. I think in truth there is a bit more to it than that phrase. I like that they have included the word 'enable' and that they are highlighting really smart people. If I had to try and rewrite this in the same vain perhaps: To empower and enable really smart people to achieve business outcomes and deliver business value. How you empower and enable those is the art of Engineering Management.

#hiring Advance Lead Engineer- Product Definition, Cincinnati, United States, fulltime #jobs #jobseekers #careers #Cincinnatijobs #Ohiojobs Apply: https://lnkd.in/g36hHnEK Job Description Summary Activities contributing to the design and development of products, solutions and systems. Includes activities linked to technical improvement of existing products and components Responsible for departmental operations planning/execution or is focused on execution of professional activities within a technical discipline. Functions with some autonomy but guided by established policies or review of end results. The job allows modification of procedures and practices covering work as long as the end results meet standards of acceptability

Engineering leaders that want their teams to move faster or produce better results should do one specific activity - invest 2-3 weeks with your team time tracking each day and then do a retrospective: 1 - How much time was spent in meetings vs value-added engineering work? (Equally important to define what constitutes the latter!)  2 - How many hours of meetings should have been skipped? Make a guess before you collate the results 🙂 I bet you’ll be surprised. Before you go hiring more people or cost cutting - kill more meetings! Folks that aren’t familiar with Dovetail Product Development may doubt that the value is worth the cost. Yes - we do have best practices, experienced engineers, and specific tools and know how to amplify the effectivity of our work. But even more fundamentally, our team is spending just under 90% of their time focused on engineering, building or testing hardware and doing so in large blocks of time. How do we know? We’ve tracked all our time spent the last 8 months. And we know we win in this category. Plus - why are great engineers talking to us about joining? Because we are hiring great engineers to do engineering 🤯