Engineering Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Masters' degree in a related science field with a minimum 7 years of experience in various R&D roles, including growth thru an organization as an engineering individual contributor.
• Minimum of 5 years, with a PhD, working on new product development projects
• Must demonstrate experience in cross-functional collaboration with Marketing, Supply Chain, Quality, Technical Service, Finance, etc.
• Proven track record of managing technical teams to deliver products on time
• Promotes Markem-Imaje core values of integrity, innovation and respect for people.
• He/she will embrace fully the responsibility and accountability for the results of his/her team.
• Independent thinker, able to assess a variety of risks and to suggest appropriate mitigation plans. Does not hesitate to speak up when something is not right.
• Good leadership skills with experience in an international company.
• Strong rigor in all conducted activities.
• Able to build trust with colleagues and subordinates and capable of convincing people even without direct authority.
• Self-motivated and demonstrates an ability to motivate others.
• Maintains a safe & clean condition in all laboratories and properly manages necessary records and files

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to marking and coding equipment is a plus.
• Collaborative entrepreneurial spirit
• Winning through customers
• High ethical standards, openness and trust
• Expectations for results
• Respect and value people

Responsibilities

• Ensure all R&D aspects of programs are carried out in accordance to MI's processes.
• Collaborate with the Discipline Leaders and project managers roles to define and execute projects to clear scope, on time, on budget and quality.
• Maintain customer satisfaction at acceptable levels by delivering the proposed hardware value and promptly resolve customer issues which involve product design.
• Collaborate with the cross-functional team to make adequate trade-offs between value creation, material cost, serviceability, testability, changeability, etc.
• Drive quality and efficiency within the embedded software team that is located in multiple sites across multiple time zones.
• Be the change management leader and demonstrate value from the agreed upon company-wide initiatives. Promote platform module adoption in DoD products.
• Contribute to the development of a solid DoD hardware and ink product line roadmaps.
• Build and maintain resource plans of appropriate granularity for the short/medium/long term and, using a skills matrix approach, coach and develop the team accordingly. This should include an active team development plan.
• Develop new vendors
• Establish/manage relationship with external engineering service partners.
• Direct R&D personnel from multiple engineering disciplines as an effective team that is committed to organizational goals and fosters collaboration.
• Collaborate with global R&D disciplines to build/recruit/further adjust the team to meet the needs of our programs
• Ensure that our products meet or exceed applicable regulations, certifications requirements and reliability requirements.
• Ensure that engineering discipline standard, methods and tools are developed with the needs of the programs in mind and effectively deployed.
• Promote improved quality levels with reliability engineering best practices and Six Sigma methodologies.
• Monitor operating and capital expense budgets to achieve company objectives.
• Assist and guide intellectual property experts.
• Ensure projects are kept on schedule and work to mitigate issues as they arise
• Train, Develop, Mentor Engineering Team through the use of a skills matrix and training plan.

Benefits

• eligible to earn a discretionary bonus based on performance metrics and other criteria outlined in our applicable bonus plan
• consider several job-related, non-discriminatory factors when determining the pay rate for a position, including, but not limited to, the position’s responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, a candidate’s education/training, the position’s location, and the key skills needed for the position. Pay is one of the Total Rewards that we provide to compensate and recognize employees for their work.