Engineering Change Coordinator - Leeds, AL

Job Overview

The Engineering Change Coordinator is responsible for coordinating and driving engineering changes for Engineer-to-Order products from identification through implementation and closure. The role ensures changes to drawings, bills of material, routings, specifications, and associated manufacturing information are communicated, prioritized, released, and implemented in a controlled manner.

The EC Coordinator acts as a central point of coordination between Engineering, Manufacturing, Materials/Planning, Quality, and Commercial teams, helping ensure engineering changes align with customer commitments, production schedules, material availability, and product quality.

A Day In The Life

Engineering Change Coordination

• Own the day-to-day coordination and tracking of Engineering Changes for ETO orders.
• Maintain visibility of open ECs, priorities, responsible owners, required actions, and completion status.
• Facilitate EC review and disposition with Engineering, Operations, Materials, Quality, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure changes progress from initial request through engineering release and manufacturing implementation.
• Escalate ECs that threaten customer delivery dates, manufacturing schedules, or material availability.

ETO Order Support

• Review active ETO orders for engineering changes or documentation issues that could prevent execution.
• Coordinate resolution of drawing, BOM, specification, configuration, and manufacturing-documentation discrepancies.
• Work with Planning and Operations to ensure released engineering information is available when required to support manufacturing.
• Identify changes affecting work already released to production and coordinate appropriate disposition.

Change Impact Management

• Determine which open orders, components, drawings, BOMs, or production activities may be affected by a proposed engineering change.
• Coordinate material disposition when changes create obsolete, excess, rework, or replacement material requirements.
• Ensure downstream stakeholders understand when a change becomes effective.
• Coordinate implementation timing to minimize disruption to production and customer delivery.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Serve as the communication link between operations and the ETO execution team.
• Clearly document decisions, owners, required actions, and due dates.
• Follow up on overdue activities and unresolved dependencies.
• Communicate high-risk changes to appropriate leadership.

Process & Performance Improvement

• Develop and maintain EC tracking and reporting.
• Monitor recurring causes of engineering changes and identify opportunities to reduce preventable changes.
• Support improvements to ETO engineering-release and change-management processes.
• Track metrics such as open ECs, aging, overdue actions, implementation cycle time, and ECs affecting production.
• Help improve engineering-release quality and first-time-right execution.

Measures of Success

• Reduction in aging/open Engineering Changes
• Engineering Change cycle time
• Percentage of EC actions completed by required date
• Number of production interruptions attributable to unresolved engineering changes
• On-time engineering release supporting ETO production
• Reduction in recurring/repeat engineering changes
• Improvement in first-time-right BOM and drawing releases

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Associate's degree or equivalent relevant manufacturing experience.
• Experience working in an engineered-product or manufacturing environment.
• Strong ability to coordinate multiple priorities and follow actions through completion.
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings, bills of material, and product specifications.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and standard Microsoft Office applications.

Preferred

• Experience in an Engineer-to-Order or Configure-to-Order manufacturing environment.
• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP.
• Experience with engineering change control, BOM management, document control, or product lifecycle management processes.
• Familiarity with CAD drawings and engineering documentation.
• Experience supporting electrical, mechanical, or utility-industry products.