Role Definition
Manages engineering for design and development of technologies, components, systems, products, or services.
Responsibilities
- Managing staffing, development, and performance management programs for engineering teams.
- Providing specialized engineering technical support and consulting services to various areas of the organization particularly focused towards Reman & Aftermarket engineering.
- Managing high-impact, short and long duration engineering initiatives and projects; ensuring achievement of engineering plan and product quality.
- Maintaining product release plans and material plans; driving programs to completion on time and within budget.
Degree Requirement:
- Bachelors degree in an accredited Engineering or Materials Science curriculum plus 13-15 years of previous experience or a masters degree in an Engineering, Materials Science curriculum plus 9-12 years of previous experience or a doctorate degree in Engineering plus 3-5 years of previous experience.
Skill Descriptors
- Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
- Level Working Knowledge:
- Contributes to short-term operational plans.
- Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
- Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
- Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
- Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.
- Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
- Level Working Knowledge:
- Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
- Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
- Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
- Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
- Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
- Level Working Knowledge:
- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
- Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.
- Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
- Level Extensive Experience:
- Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
- Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
- Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
- Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
- Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
- Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.
- Customer/Market Focus: Understanding of the importance of remaining aware of shifting market priorities and ability to respond to internal and external customer needs in a manner that consistently adds value.
- Level Working Knowledge:
- Surfaces new or unexpressed customer needs.
- Focuses product and service features and functions on the customer's critical success factors.
- Develops consistent methods for maintaining customer responsiveness.
- Delivers customer value within parameters of profitability and other targets.
- Escalates systemic problems that could affect customer satisfaction.
- Managing People: Knowledge of processes involved in managing people; ability to lead successful teams, and diligently address issues related to performance and conflicts at the workplace.
- Level Working Knowledge:
- Assesses the amount of time and resources needed to accomplish a task; delegates work accordingly.
- Explains how the team's work contributes to the success of the organization; creates a shared vision.
- Reviews progress and performance of employees; addresses bottlenecks or concerns impending employee growth.
- Uses multiple channels such as meetings, e-mails, newsletters to communicate important messages with the team regularly.
- Works with employees to set and define performance standards and career development goals; supports in achieving them.
- Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
- Level Extensive Experience:
- Utilizes preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating project cost and time.
- Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors significant projects.
- Identifies risks and vulnerabilities; creates contingency plans.
- Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project team, sponsors, and clients.
- Maintains open communication among project participants and interested parties.
- Communicates reporting requirements; creates monitoring and control mechanisms.
- Product Design and Development: Knowledge of product features; ability to design, build, and develop a new product, technology, or service from concept through to production, including Aftermarket.
- Level Extensive Experience:
- Develops organizational standards and processes in order to maximize complex product services' efficiency and effectiveness.
- Creates and introduces new techniques that expedite or simplify the development process.
- Supervises the management of multiple and diverse types of products or services.
- Develops proof-of-concept exercises to prove or disprove validity of proposed products.
- Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex product design and development problems.
- Designs working prototypes of a variety of proposed products or services.
- Relocation is available for this position.
