Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted today

Engineering Manager

UL Solutions External440 open roles

Where
Mexico, Brazil
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowEngineering ManagerUL Solutions External · Mexico, Brazil

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on UL Solutions External's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

13.7% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. UL Solutions External postings stay open a median of 18 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.2%1 day
  2. 4.7%3 days
  3. 13.7%7 days
  4. 22.1%14 days
  5. 37.8%30 days
  6. 59.1%60 days
This job: posted today

UL Solutions External median: 18 days open

The posting

Job Description

  • Develops, executes and implements operational strategy to drive organic/inorganic growth and profitability while ensuring customer satisfaction through a deep understanding of the customer and market intelligence.
  • Responsible for P&L activities and budget development, with the understanding that some industries/segments are still evolving to this model.
  • Manages annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly budget breakdowns ensuring financial targets (revenue, profit, enterprise value, etc.) are met.
  • Responsible for managing costs within assigned budgets.
  • Responsible for reporting and forecasting, workflow overviews and providing input into growth targets for customers.
  • Closely monitors and manages revenue from engineering activities, including unbilled, aging and inactive projects, work on hand analysis to ensure balance of demand and throughput.
  • Drives and leads initiatives to identify new and/or additional business opportunities.
  • Anticipates customer needs by creating strong partnerships with Sales and Business Development.
  • Provides proactive solutions for new business opportunities to secure revenue, profit margin, market share and customer satisfaction.
  • Builds customer intimacy and establishes strong relationships through customer visits, analyzing business data and market trends.
  • Participate in client seminars, conferences and trade shows. Implements and executes capacity and capability strategies.
  • Reviews project status, project management, ensures operational delivery, and closes any gaps.
  • Successfully translate customer needs into an operational plan to fulfill projects with the right resources (availability, skillset).
  • Drives a high performing team by managing the performance and development of team members.
  • Operates effectively in the UL matrix to actively support and drive high performance culture changes, transformation efforts and people engagement.
  • Holds team and self accountable for results, defines accountabilities and establishes performance objectives and metrics to execute strategy.
  • Develops and coaches by providing, training, career counseling, feedback, guidance to drive high performance and morale.
  • Ensures understanding of and compliance with all established policies and requirements.
  • Communicates and exemplifies UL's Vision and Mission.
  • Leads, promotes and embraces change for self and team.
  • Collaborates and builds trust within the organization and with customers to meet or exceed their expectations.
  • Develops strong, flexible cross-functional networks and global relationships to promote becoming the fastest, highest quality and most customer-friendly organization. Coaches and mentors employees to do the same.
  • Read and follow the Underwriters Laboratories Code of Conduct and follow all physical and digital security practices.
  • Performs other duties as directed.

Responsibilities

  1. Develop and drive an integrated Latin America strategy for Engineered Materials, aligning technical capabilities, laboratory capacity, customer needs, regulatory developments, and commercial priorities.
  2. Partner closely with Sales and Product Management to identify growth opportunities, strategic accounts, new services, and capability gaps across Mexico, Brazil, and the broader Latin American market.
  3. Bring strong commercial acumen to engineering decisions by understanding customer economics, market opportunities, pricing and value propositions, competitive alternatives, and return on investments in new capabilities.
  4. Translate market and customer insights into prioritized initiatives that grow revenue and strengthen UL Solutions' position in Latin America.
  5. Candidate will function as an operations manager, responsible for the revenue and performance management of Brazil and Mexico Engineering teams. Primary scope of responsibilities includes the management of new work and follow up service project profiles and the career pathing of these teams;
  6. Candidate must have background in financial P&L reporting, as well as experience in revenue budgeting and delivery. Must be able to understand and address off-target revenue performance;
  7. Heavy customer interaction required to establish relationships, understand customer needs and assure on time delivery of our new work and follow-up services work streams;
  8. Candidate must have familiarity with Wire and Cable testing requirements as they relate to UL Solutions Standards, national country standards and international requirements. Wire and Cable products / offerings include AWM, cord sets, low voltage cables, building wire and medium / high voltage cabling products;
  9. Candidate will be required to communicate with new and existing subcontractor laboratories to establish service level agreements and respond to any off-target subcontractor lab service delivery issues;
  10. Candidate will be required to regularly collaborate with Mexico laboratory when engineering resources are needed to host customers, train laboratory staff and as needed, flex engineering staff into the laboratory to support our customers;
  11. Candidate will be required to interact with regulatory bodies in Latin America to grow our global market access offerings, including understanding any international / national scheme requirements applicable to a given country. Candidate will also be required to present UL Solutions’ capabilities to these regulatory bodies;
  12. Candidate will be required to lead and facilitate any UL Solutions meetings with internal stakeholders related to the governance of our global market access programs;
  13. Working with affected UL Solutions stakeholders, the candidate must be able to interact with Mexico government authorities regarding sample importation regulations and resolving delays in sample importation. Candidate must be able to present UL Solutions’ service offerings, as well as the purpose of our Engineering and Laboratory presence in Mexico to these authorities;
  14. Candidate will be required to work with UL Solutions stakeholders like Lab, Product Management, Sales etc. as part of Sales and Operations Planning efforts to sustain and expand UL’s core safety, global market access and High Voltage / Medium Voltage offerings;
  15. Representing UL Solutions at key industry tradeshows and when called upon, presenting UL Solutions service offerings;

Qualifications

  1. Mexico based candidate preferred, Queretaro based is a distinct advantage for any prospective candidate;
  2. Bachelors degree in Engineering or related field plus generally ten years directly related experience, including at least five years of relevant management/leadership experience. Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering preferred;
  3. English and business-level Spanish language fluency required. Fluency in Portuguese is not a pre-requisite, but Portuguese fluency is a distinct advantage for any prospective candidate;
  4. This is a hybrid role, requiring three in-office days and two remote. Travel to customers and subcontractors is expected to be 25%. Travel will be primarily in the Latin America Region, but some EMEA travel may be required;
  5. Required skills for any candidate include MS Office, Analytics / Power BI, verbal/written communication and public presentation;
  6. Solid experience as lead or participant in cross-functional or global projects or worked in multiple functions or regions.
  7. Lean Sigma Green Belt or Lean Leadership Training, Gage R& R experience or equivalent preferred.
  8. Demonstrates an advanced understanding of how decisions impact business results, management concepts such as effectively building a diverse team and planning and thinking strategically.
  9. Demonstrates the ability to manage employee performance through development of performance expectations and goals, managing employee relations issues, identifying and addressing training needs, planning and executing against required staffing levels and assisting in operational planning.
  10. Demonstrates the ability to effectively manage employees and other team leads in a technical arena and to lead a Lean Sigma organization.
  11. Demonstrates the ability to make the complex simple and present information in a concise, relevant and powerful manner.
  12. Demonstrates the ability to analyze and interpret a wide variety of materials including analyses, data, financial reports and/or legal documents.
  13. Demonstrates the ability to take calculated risks and plan for contingencies.
  14. Demonstrates the ability to listen, learn and teach.
  15. Demonstrates the ability to work in and understand diverse cultural environments.
  16. Demonstrates customer collaboration, project management and business acumen skills.

About Us

A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.

The world is increasingly electrified. From electric vehicles to renewable energy, being part of this team means being at the cutting edge of technology. That means our team is growing; we’re investing in new opportunities, new training and new people, so we need people like you to help us answer big questions, redefine how we live and occasionally, blow things up in the name of safety science. Join our team, revolutionize the future of energy and help shape a more sustainable future.

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against UL Solutions External's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on UL Solutions External's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    UL Solutions External's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.