Sr. Project Leaders – Cordless New Product Development (NPD)
About The Position
Provide leadership over moderate to highly complex cordless new product development design engineering projects. Responsible for the completion of assigned engineering projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines. Provide direction, guidance, and engineering expertise to team members. Review work of designers, engineers and other project team members. May manage project team members. Drive project design to meet market driven design guides and fulfill cost, timing, reliability, and high-volume manufacturing requirements. Analyze, evaluate, and select from design execution alternatives to best meet specification objectives and implement designs into mass production. Accountable for technical elements of project execution, including integration of complicated components and assemblies, material selection, packaging and safety, and regulatory and standards compliance. Conduct design and safety reviews to gain necessary approvals for product development phase progressions. Comply with all company procedures covering new product development and design output in addition to procedures of non-engineering departments related to project flow. Track project schedule to ensure adherence to timelines. Schedule, develop agendas, facilitate, and document project meetings. Maintains an awareness of competitive offerings and the general business climate in the power tool industry. Identify project risks and implement risk reduction plans. Interact with manufacturing plants and outside suppliers to achieve project goals. Make component material or process recommendations. Design new experiments and test systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related engineering field, or foreign degree equivalent and 7 years of relevant experience as an Engineer, or alternate acceptable occupation; OR Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related engineering field, or foreign degree equivalent and 5 years of relevant experience as an Engineer, or alternate acceptable occupation.
- Product development experience with global manufacturing
- Product Development through Phase Gate Process.
- Forging, Injection Molding, Die Casting, and Machining supply bases.
- Guiding a cross functional team of Mechanical, Electrical, Motor, and Reliability Engineers in product development, from concept to distribution on schedule while meeting strict cost and performance requirements through a phase gate process.
- Understanding, building, and presenting product development status on Key Performance Indicators of Cost, Performance, and Schedule.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership over moderate to highly complex cordless new product development design engineering projects.
- Responsible for the completion of assigned engineering projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines.
- Provide direction, guidance, and engineering expertise to team members.
- Review work of designers, engineers and other project team members.
- May manage project team members.
- Drive project design to meet market driven design guides and fulfill cost, timing, reliability, and high-volume manufacturing requirements.
- Analyze, evaluate, and select from design execution alternatives to best meet specification objectives and implement designs into mass production.
- Accountable for technical elements of project execution, including integration of complicated components and assemblies, material selection, packaging and safety, and regulatory and standards compliance.
- Conduct design and safety reviews to gain necessary approvals for product development phase progressions.
- Comply with all company procedures covering new product development and design output in addition to procedures of non-engineering departments related to project flow.
- Track project schedule to ensure adherence to timelines.
- Schedule, develop agendas, facilitate, and document project meetings.
- Maintains an awareness of competitive offerings and the general business climate in the power tool industry.
- Identify project risks and implement risk reduction plans.
- Interact with manufacturing plants and outside suppliers to achieve project goals.
- Make component material or process recommendations.
- Design new experiments and test systems.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
