Electrical Engineering Manager

Fortive•Pittsburgh, PA

15d

About The Position

Job Description – Manager, Electrical Engineering Job Title/Position: Manager Type of Employment: Full Time Employee Department: Engineering Hiring Manager: Sachin Shah Location: One Life Way, Pittsburgh OBJECTIVES: Do you want a career that serves a higher purpose? The people at Industrial Scientific are committed to ending death on the job by 2050, and we need your help. We hire smart, motivated people, give them world-class tools in a supportive environment, and we let them do their job. In return, our team is highly engaged, creates quality solutions and delivers outstanding customer service. Our leaders understand the critical elements of breakthrough performance: bringing out the best in people; creating a climate of trust, openness, and high performance; fostering candor; and treating people fairly and with dignity. Industrial Scientific provides the environment, leadership and support that enable our team members to exceed their career expectations consistently. The Manager, Electrical Engineering is a highly skilled engineering professional who leads and directs large-scale electrical engineering projects and releasing activities. This person acts as a hands-on manager to ensure engineering projects are completed successfully and released in the required time frame while maintaining the highest quality standards. This role works with a cross-functional team to design and develop of next generation industrial safety products and solutions and maintain relevancy of the current portfolio of industrial safety products and solutions. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: This position is responsible for managing processes and teams to develop detailed electrical designs throughout the new product development lifecycle. This position will also be involved in the sustaining, VAVE, and quality improvement of ISC legacy products. This position is expected to work closely with various groups to fully assure a properly designed product is released to production and maintaining the electrical design process documentation. The duties may include but are not limited to:

Requirements

BSEE from an accredited engineering college or university
Minimum 10 years of experience as a degreed electrical engineer
Demonstrated progressive experience managing an Electrical Engineering team
Demonstrated progressive experience managing multiple parallel projects and alternate layouts
Experience with design best practices for PCB and PCBA design and layout
Experience in flexible electrical architecture development
Proficiency in basic computer software such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Ability to work independently and in a cross-functional team
Ability to commit to and work under deadlines
Demonstrated analytical skills
Effective written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

MSEE from an accredited engineering college or university
Understanding of embedded firmware
Proficiency in using Windchill PLM, Oracle EBS, and JIRA
Understanding of Altium
Experience in statistical analysis
Experience with Ansys, PC Lint and other electrical design analysis tools
Experience in project management
Demonstrated understanding of Stage-Gate development process

Responsibilities

Define and execute processes and procedures for electrical and system level specifications and requirements
Define and execute processes and procedures for electrical design and hardware analysis to comply with agency approvals (UL, CSA, ATEX, IEC, MSHA, etc.)
Responsible for electrical designs meeting manufacturability, reliability, and serviceability requirements
Lead innovation in electrical designs that meet or exceed performance and quality goals
Create, update, and maintain electrical design process and procedural documentation
Enforce, and mature the corporate engineering processes
Mentor and provide technical guidance to electrical engineers/designers
Lead team to troubleshoot new or legacy products with a data-driven approach
Lead team to resolve complex product issues through detailed analysis, rapid experimentations, test planning, and novel idea generation
Travel to customer locations to resolve issues, collect Voice of Customer and visit suppliers to go to Gemba (travel less than 10%)