Lead Design Engineer

Job Information

As a Lead Design Engineer, you will manage a small team in overseeing product development activities across multiple products, technical specialties, and processes. This includes the integration of engines and airends, designing subsystems, and ensuring alignment with short and long-term strategies to exceed standards for quality, functionality, voice of customer, and competitive advantage requirements.

Role & Responsibility

• Manage a small team which will include Engineers and Co-op Students.
• Efficiently organize the major tasks and goals for direct reports and supporting personnel.
• Actively monitor projects and make appropriate personnel and resource changes to meet the project goals. Inspire, engage, empower employees to create a culture of creativity, innovation, and timely development of world class products.
• Outline strategy for employee growth, development, and succession planning. Identify key competencies and skills needed to build a diverse team and evaluate and select new employees to achieve assigned goals.
• Identify and remove roadblocks on projects so employees can effectively execute project plans.
• Demonstrate how to build relationships across engineering and other departments to enhance collaboration. Recognize team failures as learning opportunities and coach employees through project hurdles.
• Integration of next generation engines & airends and their subsystems to support future Bobcat products.
• Complete research & development activity to align with Bobcat product road maps for portable compressors, generators, and light towers.
• Drive the product development initiatives for multiple products, product function, or stage in the product design process including preparing and managing the development activity and budget per schedules outlined in the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Long-Range Plan (LRP).
• Collaborate with other functional areas and participate in Product Management and Operational meetings on the development status of major projects to determine if products are ready for production.
• Identify and drive continuous improvement in the product development process, engineering systems and database of technical specifications.
• Ensure team responds to and solves field problems and warranty issues related to engines, airends and their subsystems.
• Improve product quality, reliability and system cost through warranty and Quality Cost Improvement programs.
• Responsible for the overall financial impact of the development of products, product function and / or phase.
• Understands business implications of decisions. Aligns the work of the engineering teams with the AOP and LRP.
• Ensures team is designing for manufacturability and impact of final cost of product to the customer.
• Always maintain a global perspective for new product development so that it meets the criteria to manufacture and distribute worldwide.
• Provide strategic leadership in the product development life cycle based on knowledge and history of the product and the company's annual goals.
• Support the ideation process to initiate new ideas for future and existing products for the Long-Range Plan (LRP).
• Use innovative approaches to solving problems, engaging team, devising courses of action for the development of new techniques or processes, and refashioning existing courses of action where the opportunity for innovation is limited by a large volume of accepted practice.
• Foster a culture of creativity and support diversity of thought, innovation, and excellence within the department.
• Sponsor and / or lead innovation challenges and events.

Job Requirement

7 years

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