Engineering Project Manager R&D

Position Overview:Responsible for teaming with Marketing Product Management to define and deliver innovative new products to the market. Will manage engineering projects or multiple interconnected engineering projects. Provide technical project leadership of a multi-disciplined engineering team. Ensure that high quality products are developed on schedule and within budget.

Responsibilities:

• Lead multi-disciplinary projects and usher them through the entire lifecycle

• Team with marketing both on the business and technical front to specify and develop cost effective and differentiated products.

• Lead the creation of engineering specifications and contribute to the creation of marketing specifications.

• Develop and execute project work plans incorporating revisions as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.

• Ensure information flow in cross-functional matrix teams as appropriate to facilitate work flow reduce cycle time and deliver world class quality.

• Leverage past experience and strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with marketing engineering quality service and operations.

• Effectively apply our phase-gate methodology and enforce project standards.

• Drive development teams to consistently improve cycle time and time to market. Accountable for completion of projects to meet market windows of opportunity.

• Provide decisive and effective technical leadership for product development.

• Minimize schedule and technical risk by foreseeing and addressing obstacles proactively and aggressively.

• Lead timely and efficient product development by understanding the relationships and tradeoffs between the various product subsystems and engineering disciplines and leading creative product solutions.

• Participate in system and components development process by identifying potential weak points. Lead solutions development using engineering judgment input from experts and involvement of suppliers and/or other systems partners as appropriate.

• Lead process improvement in the area of product development resulting in time-to-market improvements and cost savings.

• Participate and present in department and senior executive level meetings to convey the status of the engineering project(s) under your direction.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering

• 2 years of experience leading engineering teams

• 5 years of engineering design experience

• Ability to work well and productively within a team always projecting a positive outlook in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment.

• Demonstrated success in leading teams that embrace innovation initiative and continuous improvements in the development of complex products/systems

• Excellent project management time management and organizational skills demonstrated in a matrix organization

• Ability to anticipate roadblocks diagnose problems and generate effective solutions

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with all levels of an organization.

• Ability to travel both domestically and internationally up to 10% of time.

• Ability to work onsite five days a week at our HQ offices in Shakopee MN

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in engineering or business

• Exceptional technologist with ability to quickly distill relevance.

• Track record of delivering innovative products to market.

• Strong desire for personal advancement.

• Demonstrated problem-solving risk assessment and negotiation skills

• Experience debugging tough technical issues that cross boundaries between hardware firmware software and materials teams

• Strong situational leadership instincts and abilities.

• Technical experience in systems engineering control systems embedded systems laser marking printing technologies smart cards cloud-based architectures and/or IoT (Internet of Things).

Where You Will Be: This role is fully in-office requiring five days a week onsite at our HQ offices in Shakopee MN as specified in the job description. Entrust operates with a distributed workforce and this position is aligned with our in-office product development teams.

About Entrust:

Entrust keeps the world moving safely by enabling trusted identities payments and data protection around the globe. Today more than ever people demand seamless secure experiences whether theyre crossing borders making a purchase or accessing corporate networks. With our unmatched breadth of digital security and credential issuance solutions its no wonder the worlds most entrusted organizations trust us.

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Entrust Corporation is an EOE/AA/Veteran/People with Disabilities employer.

Updated 9/14/2020

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