Do you want to work for a global company that creates remarkable experiences through people, products, and food? If you want to be part of a rewarding People First culture that values relationships, trust, and taking the long view, then this is the place for you. Henny Penny was named the 2021 Dayton Business of the Year for many good reasons. Read on to learn more!
The Test and Validation Manager provides leadership, oversight, and direction for all testing, reliability, and product approval activities. Oversees Reliability, Test System, and Product Approval Engineers, Test Technicians, and Software Testers to ensure they meet objectives with the high-quality outputs through efficient operating processes.
What We Offer
- An opportunity to work for a company that is 100% employee-owned. As an employee-owner, you will be enrolled in our employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) program following one year of service.
- Annual company performance bonus in addition to base salary
- Flexibility to work from home 2 days per week
- Defined career paths so you’ll always know what’s next and what steps can get where you want to go
- Professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement and unlimited free access to LinkedIn Learning courses
- A competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, PTO, and paid holidays
- Onsite wellness clinic offering preventive care services such as wellness screenings, annual physicals, and related lab work at no cost to employee-owners
- Activities including department outings, holiday parties, and our annual company-wide Thanksgiving Dinner
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead and motivate department team members to ensure that Test and Validation projects and processes meet defined objectives.
- Responsible for hiring and staff development
- Monitor the quality of engineering solutions generated by the teams with a focus on continuously improving their effectiveness and efficiency.
- Ensure tests are performed to schedule to support project schedules
- Ensure that all testing related procedures and work instructions are up-to-date and followed
- Implement and own the testing strategy/planning (functional, integration, performance).
- Be a process lead, including responsibility for mentoring your team, ensuring best practices, & inspire a quality mindset.
- Collaborate with other leaders to collectively make decisions that are best for the business and ensure the successful delivery of the product.
- Establish and manage expense and capital budgets for Test and Validation. Maintain a long-term capital plan to provide future visibility of major capital needs.
- Develop an annual plan that projects major Test and Validation projects, staffing needs, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Create and maintain an environment of ownership and accountability of projects and timelines for all team members.
- Consistently models company values and expected behaviors.
- Other duties as assigned.
What We're Looking For
- Requires a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or Physics. Master’s degree in Engineering or MBA a plus.
- Minimum 10+ years of combined engineering experience; ideally starting as an individual contributor, then transitioning to management roles.
- Minimum 3 years of supervisory experience and technical leadership.
- Proven success growing and scaling high performing engineering teams with a collaborative culture.
- Experience in the capital goods or foodservice equipment industry preferred.
- Ability to effectively utilize & partner with outside resources to achieve the budget and project objectives.
- Ability to work with highly technical products at a global level of support.
- Proven success leading and organizing cross-functional meetings and teams in a professional manner.
- Excellent verbal and written (including presentation) communication skills.
- Good listening skills and receptive to the ideas of others.
About Us
We’re known in our industry for making the best commercial food equipment in the world. Every day, millions of people eat in restaurants operating Henny Penny equipment. We’re a behind-the-scenes engine in the world’s most demanding kitchens, including long-term partners like McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, KFC, and Wendy’s. We’re 1,000+ employee-owners who thrive by living a People First mission: to support employees in becoming the best version of themselves both personally and professionally.
We recently completed the largest expansion in our history with the addition of 150,000 square feet on our Eaton campus. This expansion drives development of the world’s most reliable, easy-to-use equipment with an innovative new space for global research and development. We have several collaborative spaces for our project teams, a dedicated electrical engineering lab for our hardware and software engineers, a full model shop for rapid prototyping, and a brand-new test lab that has 300 feet of hood space to test new equipment on our product roadmap. On top of that, we have a new state-of-the-art kitchen for our food science group to meet with our customers, understand what they need, and then dial in our equipment to help them make legendary menu items.
Henny Penny is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), marital status, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
