RESEARCH/DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING MANAGER

JOB OVERVIEW:

As the Research & Development Engineering Manager, you'll lead global efforts to ensure our subsystem portfolio thrives. Your focus: timely, budget-friendly, and quality New Product Introductions, including sustainability goals. Collaborate with teams to meet TE's high standards and market expectations. As a leader of multiple engineering teams, your responsibilities will extend to handling both internal and external escalations, fostering continuous improvement in our engineering systems, and driving effective knowledge management within the engineering domain. You will also play a crucial role in managing engineering capacity and capability, identifying skill gaps, and devising individualized development plans to bridge these gaps effectively. Join us in this dynamic role where your leadership and expertise will shape the future of our engineering endeavours.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Lead the global SubSystems engineering activities with product development and product engineering teams in Den Bosch and Bangalore in support of BCS's new product and sustaining engineering efforts
• Ensure close coordination of PDE/PE teams with manufacturing development engineers early in the development process to identify and address design for manufacturability challenges
• Enforce the proper usage of advanced quality planning tools in the development, like DFMEA to identify design risks early on and mitigation strategies, as well as support in the creation of PFMEA and prototype control plans
• Engage in cross-functional business development for SubSystems customers and project portfolio with the product management function
• Handle escalations with key OEM customers and ability to set and drive task force activities for product performance resolutions in the case of escalations
• Ensure project execution is on time, on budget and on quality to committed project execution contracts
• Refine platform vs. application engineering approaches to streamline development efforts and enable economies of scale via common design elements vs. customer-specific designs 
• Responsibility for engineering aspects in customer SOWs
• Responsibility for yearly delivery of agreed material productivity in SubSystems product line via driving of VAVE idea creation and execution
• Engineering representative for the plants in quality audits, ensuring that ISO9001 engineering requirements are met and can be demonstrated
• Support the BCS manufacturing footprint strategies in handling the re-qualification aspect of product transfers in strong coordination with product management and operations 
• Drive compliance with raw material platforming and push for increased sustainability (resins & metals)
• Ensure effective and efficient work execution by employees
• Management of departmental opex budget
• 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

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Must have a minimum of an academic degree in a discipline of Engineering
• Minimum of 8 years experience within an Engineering / Manufacturing environment with project responsibilities associated with product or process development, and/or project management
• A minimum 5 years experience in a product development environment is required, ideally with mechanical products in harsh environments
• Fluent in English. Dutch and German would be a plus 
• A professional level of business acumen
• A good understanding of manufacturing processes combined with good technical awareness
• Know-how of quality tools in engineering (DFMEA, reliability engineering)
• Deep knowledge of product development processes in a stage-gate approach
• Ideally experience with developing products inside ATEX framework
• System understanding of PLC / Automation Controls architectures would be a benefit