Description
The Engineering Manager is responsible for leading engineering functions to ensure consistency in design, documentation, compliance and quality. This position requires the ability to lead, influence and coordinate design, support and compliance engineers/technicians while encouraging cross functional communication with customer service, program management, sales and operations, and the executive team. This position requires experience in participating on or leading both a product support team and product development teams for NPD, VA/VE and ODM/OdM efforts.
Success requires working with cross-function management and project teams to maintain consistency, meet Phoenix standards and timelines and ensure new products meet internal and external customer requirements. This position requires the balancing of multiple objectives and targets and the ability to interact with all levels of the company in order to build support and consensus.
This person will task and lead staff engineers, support engineers and lab/compliance technicians. This person is also responsible for the standards to which Development and Support Engineers within the department complete their work.
- Work with VP of Engineering, Development Engineers and Product Managers to ensure development projects are completed in a timely manner to the high standards for cost, quality and performance. This includes but is not limited to lighting application studies, product testing and certification, engineering drawings, product specification sheets and other marketing materials. Encourage a passion within the team for designing and building innovative products that meet the company’s “Durability by Design” philosophy.
- Review all segment product designs which meet specified performance and cost criteria within development budget and timetable.
- Drive adherence to DFMEA/PFMEA and DFMA processes during NPD.
- Create, monitor and enforce ISO standards pertaining to engineering.
- Support Quality as technical lead for investigation of major quality complaints issues.
- Responsible for the management of a clean, functional and certifiable engineering laboratory for in-house regulatory/development compliance tests.
- Support and drive VA/VE efforts for cost savings and product enhancement.
- Develop, support and uphold department budgets.
- Develop, support and uphold NPD processes including Pilot efforts.
- Perform responsibilities of a design engineer.
- Oversee compliance with UL, ETL and CE testing standards.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or mechanical engineering with a minimum of 10 years progressive work experience including 5 years of leadership responsibility.
- Experience working with creative product development and product support teams.
- Self-starter with hands-on experience in dealing with objectives and producing deliverables in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong blend of analytical, decision-making, and creative problem-solving skills.
- Technical expertise necessary to oversee engineering product support in engineering systems, documentation development, reliability testing and analysis.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Experience with design and engineering support in medium volume manufacturing company.
- Knowledge of UL, ETL and CE testing standards.
- Experience with lighting systems especially LED is preferred.
- Proven ability to communicate clearly, understand different personalities and objectives.
