Product Development Manager; EM

Job # : EM25184

Job Title :
Product Development Manager

Office Location :
Houston, TX preferred

Business Function/Department :
Technology / Product Development

Develop and maintain an engineering team for the research and development of power electronics and tools and controls technologies to meet Mid-Range Plan (MRP) commitments within a set of capital and human resources on a rolling 2 year time horizon.

• Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees to ensure successful development of products delivered to the Business Units (BU’s)
• Create, implement, and monitor a process for efficient resource assignments
• Research and assess the Company’s power electronics and tools and controls performance and competitive position; recommend appropriate R&D projects and investments to immediate manager and BU management
• Monitor and investigate emerging power electronics, controls, embedded control hardware and software, and drive programming tool software technologies; recommend appropriate R&D projects and investments to the immediate manager and BU management
• Create, develop, budget and manage R&D project and investment activities to meet business needs
• Develop, monitor and manage team engineering capitalization and project expense budgets to meet business needs
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with parent company to secure approval for requested R&D projects and to obtain advance information about new power electronics and tools and controls products
• Investigate product failures and recommend corrective actions, as requested by immediate manager
• Prepare input for product development project status updates to immediate manager, staff, and BU’s
• Monitor skill base within the team and report opportunities for skills improvement to immediate manager
• Ensure team members possess the necessary knowledge and skills and are trained to meet current and future needs per the MRP
• Cooperate with other functional groups and other group companies to ensure projects are executed successfully
• Establish and maintain a pool of qualified contract engineers to meet current and future needs per the MRP
• Ensure client issues are resolved, at job site if necessary. Escalate to appropriate management as needed

• Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager
• Give manager best advice
• Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified
• Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager
• Exemplify Company Core Values:
  Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment
• Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws
• Recommend viable improvements proactively
• Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

• Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees
• Plan for, appropriately assign, resource, and integrate the work of the team
• Lead, expect, and implement continuous improvement
• Own the output of the team
• Ensure team members fulfill functional and general employee accountabilities
• Exercise effective managerial leadership to include
  • Two-way managerial team working
  • Fair and just treatment of direct reports
  • Context setting
  • Planning
  • Task assignment
  • Ongoing performance management
  • Coaching
  • Selection and orientation
  • De-selection and dismissal

• Bachelor of science in electrical, electronic, or mechanical engineering or equivalent via education and/or work experience
• 5 years of technical product development project leadership or technical management experience in any combination of power electronics and tools and controls in an industry related to the Company’s served industries
• 7 years of experience in power electronics or tools and controls development-
• Demonstrated success leading high performance engineering teams to accomplish business goals
• Demonstrated presentation skills
• Demonstrated success managing financial results to plan in an industry related to the Company’s served industries
• Demonstrated experience with patents and intellectual property matters
• Demonstrated successful working…