The business problem is to provide strategic direction and leadership from a product engineering perspective, solve customer pain points, and provide customer-focused solutions. The role also aims to streamline engineering processes, ensure consistent implementation and system compliance across manufacturing locations, and increase speed, quality, reliability, and repeatability in engineering capabilities and processes.
Requirements
- Broad knowledge of instrumentation and software technology and design
- In-depth familiarity with stamped, metal products and their applications acquired through at least 3 years of in-house experience
Responsibilities
- Owns the tools and systems used to streamline engineering processes including product development/APQP
- Recommends revisions or modifications to development projects to achieve greater compatibility with sales objectives and ensures the product designs meet or exceed customer, manufacturing, and financial requirements
- Leads and serves as a liaison between Ops, Sales, & Eng. to increase speed, quality, reliability and repeatability in our engineering capabilities and processes
- Owns management of design and laboratory engineering resources, including developing KPIs to quantify and track resource capacity
- Leads the engineering team in solving customer pain points and providing customer-focused solutions through the application of the CBI Framework
- Oversees the coordination with all manufacturing locations for consistent implementation and system compliance
- Aids and counsels the Engineering Managers as necessary
Other
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or Science discipline
- 3-5 years of experience in sales and/or engineering management
- Ability to make data driven decisions independently and deliver results
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills with experience in communicating and working with a remote staff
- Proven ability to motivate, guide, and develop a team of technical professionals; driven and motivates others to excel
- Solid financial abilities including working knowledge of budgeting and business development
- Willing to travel; primarily domestic and occasionally world-wide
