Electrical Engineering Manager

Electrical Engineering Manager at G&W Electric summary:

The Electrical Engineering Manager leads multidisciplinary global design teams to develop innovative electrical products from concept to production while ensuring quality, cost, and schedule targets. This role involves project management, technical leadership, mentoring, coordination with cross‑functional teams, and continuous process improvements in design and manufacturing. The manager also oversees testing, documentation, root cause analysis, resource allocation, and adherence to industry standards within a Stage‑Gate product development process.

The New Product Development (NPD) Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the end‑to‑end development of innovative products from concept through production, ensuring they meet performance, quality, cost, and schedule goals. This role oversees and mentors a multidisciplinary engineering team, fostering a high‑performance culture and actively developing technical talent to support both product needs.

The NPD Engineering Manager plays a critical role in driving technical excellence, project execution, and cross‑functional collaboration with product management, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams.

• Be responsible for management of multi‑facility global design teams in a Stage‑Gate process.
  • Coordinate the activities of mechanical, electrical, and manufacturing engineers to complete designs, build test units, and create documentation.
  • Responsible for managing resources within the departmental team to be in line with workload and schedule commitments on projects, delegating/allocating tasks and responsibilities to team members
  • Develop schedules, coordinate and manage projects of all complexity levels with little to no supervision.
  • Responsible for preparation and monitoring of project budgets in area of responsibility.
  • Responsible for departmental project designs meet requirements of specification and standards while promoting error‑proof assembly.
  • Responsible for coordination with specification writers to ensure project feasibility.
• Ensure design personnel utilize Lean design and manufacturing processes and follow good design control practices.
  • Deliver innovative designs that meet profit, cost, quality, and time‑to‑market metrics.
  • Oversee construction and testing of prototype components or assemblies as required in the development and approval process.
  • Ensure designs follow established procedures for creation and maintenance of CAD databases and libraries.
  • Participate in the review of engineering drawings prior to the release to manufacture. Responsible for final approval of applicable drawings.
  • Responsible for proactively identifying and mitigating risks to the project.
• Be responsible for development test plan creation based on D/PFMEA and in line with project specifications, industry standards, and G&W reliability and validation requirements.
  • Responsible for ensuring testing is in line with the test plan and meets or exceeds G&W requirements.
  • Perform root cause analysis and troubleshooting on the new and existing products and processes
  • Work with third party vendors and/or partners to develop high quality, lowest cost design options.
  • Interface with purchasing and vendors in the selection and approval of component parts and assemblies.
• Prepare written documentation of processes, material requirements, test results and project activity as required. Create / revise G&W standards as needed.
• Continuously improve engineering processes including DFX, project and product costs, quality, and project lead times.
• Participate in industry organizations (associations, standards committees, etc) to stay informed of and to influence industry activities.
• Provide Engineering support to Sales/Marketing and Manufacturing on new and existing products and processes. Help to train departmental teams on the application and customer use of G&W products.
  • Consult with Customer representatives to discuss product requirements and specifications when design or manufacturing problems are involved
• Develop direct reports' work skills to improve department quality, throughput…