Engineering Team lead

The Engineering Team Lead will manage NPE Teams to support and develop New Product activities for the product/feature launches.

This position is a hybrid of technical and managerial work, requiring coordination of projects, and managing design & engineering resources.

This role is accountable for engineering decisions, design execution, and product validation to ensure products meet performance, cost, and quality targets.

• Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
• Years of
  
  Experience:
• Minimum of 5 years of industry experience.
• Systems
  
  Experience:
• Minimum 2000hrs of working experience with 3D CAD & PLM software. Autodesk Inventor and Vault preferred.
• Minimum 3 yrs. of working experience with a manufacturing ERP system required. Experience in SAP preferred.
• Experience with maintaining Sharepoint sites preferred.
• Management
  
  Experience:
• Ability to accurately predict the duration of proposed tasks, develop estimates for resources, costs, rough timelines, and risks
• Develop detailed breakdown of deliverables for new designs, systems, sub-systems and products
• Some technical project management experience required. Working experience in Agile/Scrum environment preferred
• Ability to supervise technical staff, assign tasks and small projects to direct reports and extended design resources.

Technical Expertise:

• Experience with sheet metal design in manufacturing environment required.
• Familiarity w/ engineering selections for components and equipment, such as fans, pumps, piping, etc.
• Ability to work w/ vendors for purchased parts
• Ability to efficiently research, find technical information and leverage subject matter experts within the company to develop technically feasible proposals/ recommendations
• Ability to quickly learn new & existing software/tools for analyzing all aspects of products, including cost, performance ratings, etc.
• Ability to create a project budget of resources, time, and costs preferred
• Communication
  
  Experience:
• Proven record in effective written and oral communication
• Ability to clearly articulate the issue or risk with identified impact and proposals for potential path forward
• Must be able to filter and summarize the raw technical details to a concise message for non-technical team members and or leadership team
• Able to communicate to promote team’s cohesiveness as this role is viewed as a Technical Leader and owner of the engineering decisions and design
• Ability to deliver confidence to the cross-functional Project team members
• Ability to present and host meetings across all levels within the organization
• Ability to effectively facilitate team meetings
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams at different levels of the company
• Lead with empathy & hold the direct reports accountable to their commitments.
• Provides prompt and practical constructive feedback to the direct reports for improvements
• Ability to motivate and influence others to prioritize work to support projects/ deliverables to meet commitments
• Ability to track all open project deliverables and ensures team members get necessary work completed.

Reports To:

Global Design Manager

Direct Reports NPE Design & Engineering Team(s)

The Engineering Team Lead will work integrally with all Regional & Global Engineering teams as well as cross-functional Project Teams. He/ She will be expected to provide leadership, motivation, and coordination to the NPE team(s), in addition to performing project tasks.

It is expected that the Engineering Team Lead will be responsible for the following:

Process Management:

• Manage Design & Engineering processes and demonstrate metric based improvements
• Work with and amongst the NPE Team(s) to engineer products that meet project targets, and are globally manufacturable within BAC facilities
• Lead NPE Team(s) through all phases NPI activities
• Coach and mentor NPE Teams to navigate early phase project scoping with Product Owners.
• Drive early engineering feasibility assessments to evaluate technical viability, risks, and alignment with project specifications
• Develop and estimate scope of work and design time accurately to support NPE Team backlog planning
• Coach team to apply DFMA & quality principles during MVP/prototype design phases ensuring that designs meet internal BAC standards.
• Support MVP build execution and ensure MVP/prototype is ready for design validation phases
• Ensure test plans are developed and executed to validate all DFMEA items, quality targets, and performance…