Deputy Director- Mechanical

Key Responsibilities

• Manages a mechanical engineering group with specific responsibility for mechanical systems and equipment design function, staffing, technical mentoring as required within the engineering group, staff professional and personal development, team building, defining organizational roles, hiring and retention. Additional responsibilities include developing and sustaining supervisors/technical leaders for key areas of responsibility, and budget adherence. Also, technically lead and/or execute engineering projects/programs
• Ensures customer satisfaction via on time delivery of product releases and prompt resolution of extremely complex issues for entire range of products for division of significantly complex scope
• Ensures the integration of engineering resources with cross-functional teams to meet product goals for the units product line of significantly complex scope
• Interface with internal and external customers regarding extremely complex engineering issues to address customers High Value Problems (HVP) for a range of products for the division
• Provides management with updates pertaining to progress in specific programs and initiatives, and assures that information required in other functional areas is disseminated appropriately
• Define, develop, and sustain product strategy, objectives and roadmap
• Guides programs for the research and development of new technologies relating to mechanical engineering as appropriate, and ensures that newly created processes, designs, and/or methodologies are incorporated into Applied Materials products/services, and/or disseminated to other areas as needed
• Assures that a full range of technical reviews are held

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles within own job family and knowledge of other related job families

Business Expertise

• Applies in-depth understanding of how own discipline integrates within the segment/function

Leadership

• Manages multiple related teams, sets organizational priorities and allocates resources

Problem Solving

• Identifies and resolves complex technical, operational and organizational problems

Impact

• Impacts the business results of a team or area by supporting and funding of projects, products, services and/or technologies and developing policies and plans
• Guided by business unit, department or sub-functional business plans

Interpersonal Skills

• Influences others internally and externally, including senior management