Senior Manager Product Engineering
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Posted on:
3 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
General Description:
- Responsible to identify design and develop a product/product family.
- Ensures production procedures efficiently utilize materials and personnel.
- Tests finished product for quality purposes and recommends changes to product specifications as necessary.
- They receive and process changes required by clients released on production (not launches) at a SR Level responsible to develop the product from the concept up to the SOP on a limited basis (if it is a BTP Built to Print) or as a full development as an FSS Full-Service Supplier.
- May develop uncover characterize and assess strategic new products and/or product extensions.
- Transforms and adopts discoveries to ensure research and development activities will maintain an organizations competitive position.
- Will lead a team for a specific project.
- May also focus on pure research and/or design and implementing the manufacturing processes and equipment for the product.
Position Specific Requirements (PSR):
- Experience in leading a team in the development of a new process/product.
- Experience in dealing directly with the management level at the customer without direct support from their manager.
- Experience in the Design development and engineering of multiple Interior commodities
- IP
- Door
- Floor Console
- Hardtrim
- Overhead
- Experience in the following Key Technologies
- Injection Molding
- Lamination of Coverstocks (Vac-forming Press Lamination Bladder Wrapping)
- Assembly of Parts
- Vibration Welding
- Sonic Welding
- Heat Staking
- Screw/Clip Attachment
- Experience in Second Tier Technologies that would be a plus in a candidates consideration.
- Hybrid Injection Molding
- Compression Molding
- Cut & Sew
- Experience in other Technologies that would be beneficial.
- Foam In Place
- Laser Scoring
- Knife Scoring (Sonic or Cold)
- Punch Trim
- Waterjet Trim
Education:
- BS/BA required
- MBA/MS preferred
Experience:
- Requires 8-12 years of experience
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Ability to manage a diverse team with different experience levels.
- Managing their available resources as needed to be successful.
- Ability to work with managers/leaders from other teams as needed.
- Comfortable in working directly with the customer in various independent situations.
- Self-motivated and able to lead their team at times with little guidance from their manager.
- Ability to define product requirements to the customer.
- Ability to communicate customer wants/questions to support teams and then communicate guidance and design/tooling criteria back to the customer.
- An in-depth understanding of engineering discipline documents (DFMEA DVP&R EBOM)
- Comfortable in creating maintaining and updating the above documents as needed
- Lead internal weekly design reviews.
- Track engineering changes through an ECN/RFQ system and help initiate if needed.
- Basic understanding of GD&T gage/fixture design and build
- Ability to support analysis of dimensional data and corrective action for product concerns
- Understand and support various team disciplines (PFMEA APQP DFA DFM DFE LPMP PDM DFSS
- An understanding of FEA/CAE development and be able to communicate expected inputs/outputs needed for the design to be successfully evaluated for FEA/CAE.
- Ability to then analysis the outputs and suggest design improvements as needed.
- Team Center Experience
- Initiate DRs and DTRs for required design work and data transfers.
- Cut sections/take measurements
- Maintain engineering open issues and evidence documents
- Ensure customer expectations are being met or exceeded
- Utilize lessons learned and continuous improvement activities to ensure robust designs
- Responsible for the execution of initial engineering release and subsequent changes
- Provide launch support including onsite at IAC and customer manufacturing locations.
- Ability to manage/track their teams budget provide guidance to their manager as needed for any potential.
- Develop/Mentor their younger staff members and support their overall teams long term development.
- Drive the overall company process and requirements.
- Willing and able to engage with their manager as needed to address: Team member shortfalls issues with support groups potential customer escalations operational issues etc. Budget shortfalls.
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
Key Skills
- Data Center Experience
- ArcGIS
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Construction Estimating
- Go
- Mathcad
- React
- Redux
- AWS
- Software Development
- Auto Estimating
- Distributed Systems
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