Engineering Manager

Location: 's-Hertogenbosch

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Job Description:

Why you should join:  TE Connectivity’s R&D/Product Development Engineering Teams conceive original ideas for new products, introduce them into practice. They are responsible for product development, and qualification from market definition through production and release; assist in the qualification of suppliers for new products to ensure suppliers deliver quality parts, materials, and services for new or improved manufacturing processes; conduct feasibility studies, testing on new and modified designs;

direct and support detailed design, testing, prototype fabrication and manufacturing ramp. The R&D/Product Development Engineering Teams provide all required product documentation including, but not limited to,Digital Model,Performance Simulation,2D/3D production drawings, product specifications, and testing requirements. They create andmodifydetailed drawings and draftingor conceptual models from layouts, rough sketches ornotesand contribute to design modifications tofacilitatemanufacturing operation or quality of product. Typical fields ofexpertiseincludematerials,mechanic sand systems, electrical, optics, chemistry, software, automation systems, packaging, testing and measurement, and manufacturing of electrical,mechanical and electronic components, products, and their integration into systems.
Your main tasks:
As‘ManagerRD&E’,the candidateisresponsible forthefutureof our terminal block  this capacity,he or shewill be working closely with all relevant departments to ensure our platform-NPI’s are delivered on-time,on-budgetandon-quality, including hitting our sustainability targets. As leader of the Product Development Engineering-teams;handling internal and external escalations, driving continues improvement of engineering-systems,ensureengineeringknowledge- ata-management,capacity and capabilitymanagementthrough the identification ofskill gaps and setting up individual development plans to close these,etc..are all part of your activities. Beyond that,working closely withtheproduction-location(s) to ensure quality-, delivery-and cost-performance meets TE-, customer- and general-market expectations-and- through cooperating with Product Managementhelptoidentifying future needs of our product-lines, ensuring the innovations are ready when need-beis part of your day-to-day role.

Key responsibilities:

Leadthebi-locationalengineering activities with product development and product engineering teams in Den Bosch(Netherlands) andSt. Priest (France) in the support ofPRSinnovation andnew product efforts
Management of departmental G&Os, regular conversations with purpose, and year end evaluation processes, as well as ensuring continuous development of necessary and evolving skills in the product development function
Lead Innovation-Projects, which contribute at least 15% of your team’s working hours, to be on-time, on-budget and ensure they generate the technology readiness level foreseen.
Management of departmental competence, capability and capacity to allow your team-members to deliver on-time, on-cost, on-quality for NPI-projects you assign them to Continues Improvement of your department, to ensure effective and efficient execution
Enforce the proper usage of advanced quality planning tools in the development, like DFMEA to identify design risk early on and mitigation strategies, as well as support in creation of PFMEA and prototype control plans
Ensure close cooperation of PDE teams with prototyping- and test-laboratories early in the development process to enhance de-risking and time-to-market
Ensure close cooperation of PDE teams with…