11 - Senior Staff Engineer, Systems/Applications Design

Celestica International LP•Richardson, TX

About The Position

Systems & Applications Design is an interdisciplinary engineering field that works with cross-functional teams, customers, supply chain, and project leadership to ensure robust, high-quality product development. The Senior Staff Engineer, Systems/Applications designs, integrates, and manages complex systems throughout their life cycles. This engineering lead works across requirements engineering, reliability, logistics, team coordination, testing and evaluation, maintainability, and other disciplines necessary for successful system design, development, implementation, and decommissioning. The role enhances designs using feedback from manufacturing, test, supply chain, reliability, industrial design, and simulations. The position leads technical solutions for complex, multi-domain projects and provides technical leadership and direction to a global engineering team. It may include responsibility for project planning and scheduling, non-technical project elements such as people and financials, customer engagement, vendor relationships, and global deployment of strategic technologies and programs. The engineer researches, designs, modifies, implements, tests, simulates, measures, and troubleshoots systems to meet customer and Celestica needs, while producing reports and documentation and staying current with industry knowledge and regulations. Duties are performed in a normal office environment. The work may require extended sitting, sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or detailed data, and frequent repetitive manual movements such as data entry and computer or calculator use. Occasional travel may be required. Typical experience is 11 to 14 years. A bachelor's degree is typical, or an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered; educational requirements may vary by geography.

Requirements

Typical experience of 11 to 14 years.
Bachelor's degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience; educational requirements may vary by geography.
Comprehensive subject-matter knowledge and industry recognition.
Ability to provide technical leadership and direction to a global engineering team.
Ability to lead complex, multi-domain technical projects and analyze system trade-offs.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions for complex projects involving multiple domains, and participate in project planning and scheduling.
Provide technical leadership and direction to a global team of engineers as a global subject matter expert.
Take responsibility for non-technical elements of engineering projects, including people and financials.
Review and interpret customer specifications and potentially act as the primary customer contact.
Analyze trade-offs in complex systems and recommend solutions; develop deployment strategies and plans.
Lead deployment of strategic technologies and programs and coordinate global deployment efforts.
Manage relationships with key vendors and partners, as applicable.
Research systems ideas and develop plans for those systems.
Design, modify, and implement systems that meet customer and Celestica needs, including solution architecture and coordination of engineering teams and disciplines.
Test, simulate, measure, and troubleshoot system performance.
Keep up to date with relevant industry knowledge and regulations.
Solve complex problems.
Liaise with suppliers, customers, contractors, and internal teams.
Analyze and interpret data and information.
Recommend system modifications.
Create reports and documentation.
Enhance designs using feedback from manufacturing, test, supply chain, reliability, industrial design, and simulations.