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.

What You Will Do

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.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have experience with sheet metal design in manufacturing environment required, familiarity w/ engineering selections for components and equipment, and ability to work w/ vendors for purchased parts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years of industry experience
• Minimum 2000hrs of working experience with 3D CAD & PLM software
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Moderate Project Management skills
• Minimum 3 yrs. of working experience with a manufacturing ERP system required
• Experience in SAP preferred
• Experience with maintaining Sharepoint sites preferred
• 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
• Experience with sheet metal design in manufacturing environment required
• Familiarity w/ engineering selections for components and equipment
• 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
• 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
• Ability 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

Benefits

• Flex work Policy (hybrid work from home & office)
• Travel, both domestic and international can be up to 15% of the time
• Periodic evening/weekend hours required, although can often be done from home with the use of a portable computer
• Paid holidays
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance