Electrical Engineering Manager Job Description Template

Electrical Engineering Manager

[Intro Paragraph] Begin your electrical engineering manager job description with a concise paragraph or list of bulleted items designed to sell your workplace to applicants. Are you an industry leader working on cutting-edge technology, a known brand with worldwide reach and lots of opportunity for advancement, or a fast-paced young startup developing cool gadgets in a creative workspace? Whatever makes your workplace special should be highlighted near the top of your job post. This is also a great place to talk about your philosophy toward work-life balance, community service and engagement, or career development and advancement.

Electrical Engineering Manager Job Responsibilities: In this section, you’ll want to use a bulleted list to explain the role’s responsibilities in order of importance, as illustrated below.

• Achieves optimal electrical system operational efficiency by developing and maintaining electrical systems.
• Accomplishes operational objectives by recruiting, onboarding, and managing employees.
• Communicates job expectations, monitoring and reviews job contributions, plans and adjusts compensation actions, and enforces staff policies and procedures.
• Optimizes engineering performance by contributing engineering recommendations to strategic planning and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standard goals; resolving engineering issues; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; and implementing change.
• Meets departmental financial objectives by forecasting requirements and challenges, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.
• Develops strategic electrical plans by studying operational plans and existing conditions, determining needs to accomplish operational plans, mapping solutions, updating and modifying requirements and solutions, and preparing cost estimates and budgets.
• Plans electrical projects by determining specifications, selecting contractors, establishing installation schedules, planning shut-downs and installations, integrating architectural and mechanical design specifications, verifying code requirements, and updating cost estimates.
• Completes electrical projects by supervising installations and resolving design issues.
• Maintains electrical systems by establishing and enforcing ongoing maintenance schedules and procedures and testing programs, scheduling repairs, and coordinating shut-downs and installations.
• Maintains safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures, and complying with legal regulations.
• Updates job knowledge by remaining current on codes and requirements, participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, and participating in professional organizations.
• Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by collaborating with other members of senior management.
• Manages vendor and subcontractor relationships.

[Work Hours & Benefits] In this section you should aim to sell the position to potential applicants, just like the first section of your technical writer job description sold candidates on your workplace. Highlight the position’s benefits and bonus potential and consider adding your electrical engineering manager salary range as well. Greater pay transparency can build trust with candidates and can also get you candidates more likely to accept an offer. To ensure that the salary range you mention is in line with similar engineering manager salaries in your sector, community or region, use a salary tool that allows you to input job title and location.

Electrical Engineering Manager Qualifications/Skills: In this section of your engineering manager job description, you should use a bullet list to convey the qualifications you are seeking in an ideal candidate. If the list gets long, consider breaking it into two separate lists labeled as “Required” and “Preferred.” Whether you use one list or two, begin with the most important skills you are seeking, as illustrated below:

• Electronic testing design
• Electronic production technologies
• Electronic systems
• Technical management
• Budgeting
• Management proficiency
• Electronics troubleshooting
• Basic safety
• Quality focus
• Process improvement
• Leadership
• Report writing skills
• Project management
• Vendor and subcontractor relationship building and maintenance

Education, Experience, & Licensing Requirements:

• BS in electrical engineering required; master’s degree a plus
• 4-5 years relevant work experience
• 1-2 years management experience
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP), Engineering Management Certification Fundamentals (EMCF), and/or Professional Engineering Manager (PEM) certification(s)

[Call to Action] Your electrical engineering manager job description should finish strong with a call to action that urges applicants to fill out an online application, or send to send one directly to a designated recruiter.