Director of Engineering and Technical Sales

MISSION:

The Director of Engineering & Technical Sales is a key member of the San Leandro leadership team responsible for shaping and executing the sites technical vision across product engineering process engineering quality engineering and customerfacing technical initiatives. This leader ensures the plants technical capabilities manufacturing processes and product performance evolve to meet current and future business needs.

The Director partners closely with Sales Operations and customers to support continuity of supply lead new product and process introductions and strengthen the plants competitive position. They champion datadriven improvement reduction of scrap and rework and the development of robust scalable processes that elevate overall plant performance. Success in this role is measured by contributions to the sites P&L longterm capability building and the establishment of strategies that position the business for future growth.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the technical strategy for the San Leandro site integrating product process and quality engineering into a cohesive forwardlooking function.
• Use advanced analytical tools (statistical methods DOE Six Sigma mathematical modeling) to identify sources of variation and drive sustainable improvements in product and process performance.
• Oversee engineering programs and crossfunctional technical projects including new product introduction customerdriven initiatives and internal capability development.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with Sales Planning Operations and customers to ensure alignment on technical requirements supply continuity and product performance expectations.
• Strengthen the plants process control systems ensuring data collection monitoring and analysis are accurate effective and used to drive decisionmaking.
• Establish and maintain permanent corrective actions and yieldimprovement systems in collaboration with operations and plant engineering.
• Drive costreduction initiatives across materials processes and product design with a focus on scrap reduction rework elimination and variablecost improvement.
• Maintain a strong presence on the manufacturing floor fostering collaboration building credibility with frontline teams and ensuring realtime visibility into process performance.
• Serve as a technical authority for both internal teams and customers providing expertise on product and process variability manufacturability and capability.
• Lead and develop the Process Engineering Product Engineering Quality Engineering and Continuous Improvement teams ensuring talent growth and alignment with business goals.
• Deliver annual costtakeout results equivalent to at least 3x department salary expense through engineering and process improvements.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• A Bachelor of Science Engineering degree is required major area of study preferably materials industrial or mechanical. Background knowledge in PLC programming electronics and statistics desired.
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in a technology driven manufacturing and design industry such as aerospace telecommunications electronics gas turbines or automotive.
• The successful candidates career will show increasing levels of responsibility and customer focus with proven cost-reduction projects.
• Proven success in getting team cohesion and performance in achieve an establish business vision across a multi-disciplinary team.
• Assertive energetic self-starting risk-taker with the ability to break through historical barriers and paradigms for out-of-the-box data driven problem solving techniques.
• Tremendous desire to be an independent change leader by establishing proven results.