Engineering Project Team Leader

Career Area:

Engineering

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The Lafayette Engine Center has an Engineering Project Team Leader position in our Turbocharger Application area. The Engineering Project Team Leader manages multiple or complex engineering projects involving multiple functions, organizations, products, or value chains.

• Serve as an LPSD turbocharger application team leader
• Develop project scope to address business challenges and opportunities.
• Coordinating resources across the businesses with sales and marketing, product development groups, value chain and manufacturing.
• Overseeing project progress and costs; communicating status with stakeholders and participating functional areas; addressing and resolving problems.
• Directing project staffing; motivating and developing project team and team members.
• Utilize APQP to collaborate with suppliers; optimizing designs to meet performance, reliability, durability, and cost targets
• Collaborate with LPSD Platform teams on program requirements
• Complete teardown/inspection of turbochargers being used in validation
• Leverage experience with air/exhaust system-to-system interactions and their effects on turbocharger function and performance
• Direct the work of off-site engineering groups providing analysis, and detailing services
• Complete design FMEAs and develop validation requirements for new and improved designs
• Create product validation plans and lead execution of these plans
• Keep up-to-date on current technologies and develop new technologies

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or related technology field

Products and Services:
Knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.

• Oversees development activities for multiple products or product lines.
• Advises colleagues on implementation and operational considerations.
• Coaches others on key factors that differentiate offerings from that of competition.
• Develops procedures for product planning, development, and delivery cycles.
• Promotes understanding of multiple product and service groups and their interdependencies.
• Monitors regulatory and environmental issues and considerations.

Technical Excellence:
Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.
• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.
• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.
• Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.
• Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.
• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Influencing Through Expertise:
Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise and impact or challenge decisions within and outside own organization.

• Communicates complex ideas and concepts in a clear and concise manner so that others can understand.
• Exhibits depth and breadth of knowledge, skill, and experience in the relevant field.
• Provides relevant, timely and objective subject matter/process expertise and key insight regarding multiple client business areas and affiliated fields.
• Provides others with…