Chief Engineer, Radio Hardware

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.•Towson, MD

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Radio Hardware Chief Engineer Come make the world and accelerate your success. It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 48,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®. The Job: As Radio Hardware Chief Engineer, you’ll be part of our Tools & Outdoor team and will be working as a hybrid employee. Radio Hardware Chief Engineer responsibilities will include assigning tasks to engineering teams, setting & maintaining alignment of long and short-term project goals, monitoring that projects are staying within time and budgetary restraints, maintaining 3-year product roadmaps, and compiling reports for leadership reviews. As a Chief Engineer, you will engage with product execution teams across all of Pro-Electrified, and will stay close to the critical projects from start to finish. You will be the technical go-to person for radio hardware and device communication standards working closely with other Product and Digital Chief’s. You will have a strong track record of delivering results with experiences including the design, implementation, verification, validation, and qualification, of embedded radio hardware, modular radio hardware, and integrated radio hardware. You’ll get to: Architect the hardware integration of wireless technologies for Pro-Electrified devices Translate performative requirements into technical requirements. Collaborate with Global Supply Chain teams (Manf, Ops, Purchasing) and peer Chiefs on suppliers, footprint moves & strategies. Collaborate with Product Chiefs, Tool/Device Product Managers. Digital Product Managers and Digital Connect Applications Team to ensure end-to-end success of connected products. Define and manage platformed wireless protocols that are scalable and flexible for a variety of tool applications for BLE and other wireless mediums. Collaborate with product leads to ensure technical requirements result in meeting user’s needs. Collaborate with edge application team, front- and back-end application teams, to ensure the wireless protocol functions from an overall systems view. Provide strong leadership and management to a team of product development engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment. Drive a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement within the team. Oversee the appropriate EE module and interface integration into the product development process for power tools and outdoor power equipment. Responsible for the Value Improvement, DTV, and Warranty improvement funnels (sustaining engineering pathways related to integrated Radio products and technologies) Collaborate, develop, and implement a strategic roadmap for radio modules that align with the Tools & Outdoor business unit’s product roads, goals, and long-term vision. Guide design verification and validation activities, including design reviews, safety reviews, module testing review, and module integration testing review. Work closely with the product development leads and project management office (PMO) to develop program schedules, solve technical and execution problems, and report to Senior Management on project status. Guide the team in refining system architecture based on assessment of progress/challenges/failures during product development process. Identify potential risks in product development and create strategies to mitigate them, ensuring the products launch on time and with high quality processing. Mentor and develop engineers to their highest potential. Be a Hands-on leader who is willing to dive deep, as needed. The Person: You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have:

Requirements

Experience using design tools for product development and documentation.
Established success in building, growing, and developing fast-paced, experienced teams spanning multiple disciplines in battery-powered electro-mechanical products.
Experience developing hardware designs and applications of radios for integration into products that utilize motor drive systems.
Expert knowledge in BLE, LoRA, and similar point-to-point or mesh Radio and wireless communication mechanisms.
Familiarity with emerging public networks such as Amazon Sidewalk, Apple Find-Me
12+ years experience developing platformed, modularized, and standardized system solutions with key involvement in radio hardware development.
Ability to own direction, technical vision, and strategy direction across multiple projects concurrently.
Influential leader with capacity for strategic vision for a product line and knowing what it takes to drive success with those products.

Nice To Haves

Background in Systems engineering
Background in Functional Safety
Masters-level business degree
Experience in industries such as automotive, aerospace, medical devices, robotics
Experience in the design of EE modules for battery-powered products such as power tools and outdoor power equipment

Responsibilities

Architect the hardware integration of wireless technologies for Pro-Electrified devices
Translate performative requirements into technical requirements.
Collaborate with Global Supply Chain teams (Manf, Ops, Purchasing) and peer Chiefs on suppliers, footprint moves & strategies.
Collaborate with Product Chiefs, Tool/Device Product Managers. Digital Product Managers and Digital Connect Applications Team to ensure end-to-end success of connected products.
Define and manage platformed wireless protocols that are scalable and flexible for a variety of tool applications for BLE and other wireless mediums.
Collaborate with product leads to ensure technical requirements result in meeting user’s needs.
Collaborate with edge application team, front- and back-end application teams, to ensure the wireless protocol functions from an overall systems view.
Provide strong leadership and management to a team of product development engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
Drive a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement within the team.
Oversee the appropriate EE module and interface integration into the product development process for power tools and outdoor power equipment.
Responsible for the Value Improvement, DTV, and Warranty improvement funnels (sustaining engineering pathways related to integrated Radio products and technologies)
Collaborate, develop, and implement a strategic roadmap for radio modules that align with the Tools & Outdoor business unit’s product roads, goals, and long-term vision.
Guide design verification and validation activities, including design reviews, safety reviews, module testing review, and module integration testing review.
Work closely with the product development leads and project management office (PMO) to develop program schedules, solve technical and execution problems, and report to Senior Management on project status.
Guide the team in refining system architecture based on assessment of progress/challenges/failures during product development process.
Identify potential risks in product development and create strategies to mitigate them, ensuring the products launch on time and with high quality processing.
Mentor and develop engineers to their highest potential.
Be a Hands-on leader who is willing to dive deep, as needed.

Benefits

Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.
Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

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