Senior Product Engineering Leader - Drive Innovation

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Full Time Management Century Arms Florida, W PALM BEACH, FL, US

30+ days ago Requisition

Reports to:

Vice President, Engineering Position Type:
Full-Time

Location:

Florida (on-boarding in VT)

Summary of Position Mission

The Senior Product Development Manager leads, manages, and directs all product development engineering efforts at Century Arms. This position is responsible for designing, testing / validating, and releasing to production all new products as well as product enhancements and design related cost reduction efforts. This position reports to the VP of Engineering and working throughout the organization, will be responsible for designing, planning, and implementing new product designs, and technologies to ensure that Century Arms has the products necessary to rapidly grow our product portfolio and feed the product roadmap.

The Senior Product Development Manager will work in concert with the Operations teams to improve internal manufacturing processes for efficiency and effectiveness as well as work with suppliers to identify and reduce defects and costs.

Responsibilities

· Manage the research and development team to conceive, design, develop, test, validate and release to production new products while supporting and improving all existing product lines.

· Work in close concert with the business development, product management, and marketing teams, implement and advance the strategic product direction for the company.

· Manage, grow and mentor the research and development team while maintaining a positive and energetic work environment.

· Effectively communicate to all levels of the organization both presenting to leadership and working directly with the manufacturing floor.

· To prove success in all phases of the product life cycle—identification of need, development of product requirements, product design, quality and production hand-off, launch and ongoing product management.

· Work with the product director to follow and implement the new product development stage process through the organization.

· Define, adapt, or improve the processes essential to the successful execution of product development. Key processes include but are not limited to product lifecycle management, requirements management, product specifications, product workflow, and NPD (new product development stage gate process.

· Analyze vertical integration opportunities for the company and help set strategic direction for manufacturing.

· Create firearm designs and product innovations using DFMA techniques to grow the product portfolio of the company while reducing operational cost.

· Manages new process development projects and coordinates activities with various internal & external suppliers.

· Utilize GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance) to review assembly, component designs and details to verify manufacturing feasibility.

· Create/participate in development of design and process FMEA's (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis).

· Optimize manufacturing methods eliminating waste throughout the product process.

· Work with manufacturing engineering and operations to analyze vertical integration opportunities for the company and help set strategic direction for manufacturing.

· Design for manufacturing methods, processes and systems.

· Work with manufacturing engineering and operations to validate and qualify new tooling, process changes, and manufacturing equipment.

· Lead material science efforts for product improvements and cost reduction efforts.

· Interface with suppliers and research development centers to develop new manufacturing…