MGR II PRODUCT ENGINEERING
Job Overview
Role and Responsibilities
- Sets an Engineering Functional Leader direction and rallies the organization and team around the vision.
- Modernizes the compounds portfolio to drive technical and competitive advantage.
- Conceives original ideas for new materials products through effective voice of customer, market knowledge, and technical understanding of competitors.
- Has a solid understanding of competitor products and IP positions.
- Identifies and documents common working practices across the global footprint to ensure all elements of compliance are maintained and relevant.
- Creates a team framework to support PM, Sales, Marketing, and PIC teams with customer inquiries, including product cross references, specifications, drawings, data, and product knowledge.
- Supports Global Operations with compound and product-related issues, deciding on the disposition of NCR material and suggesting ways of saving NCR compound.
- Manages raw material shortages globally in close collaboration with Operations, Purchase, PM, Sales, and Quality.
- Manages raw material issues, obsolescence, continuity of supply, and suggests material alternatives.
- Builds relationships and chairs working parties to improve material supply and future material development with suppliers.
- Rationalizes raw materials and compounds, reviews trade-offs to performance, and makes recommendations to drive engineering efficiencies without impacting performance.
- Acts as the fact holder and recognized authority on legislation impacts affecting raw materials, compounding, and product families.
- Responsible for product qualification from market definition through production and release.
- Provides all required engineering documentation, including formulations and compounding parameters.
- Submits all IP information to legal according to policy and prior to public disclosure.
- Leads the global team responsible for sustaining life cycle engineering.
- Sets and manages financial budgets for the function.
- Defines and cascades standard working practices around part maintenance activities, including raising and maintaining part numbers, ECN, ECR, PCNs, PDM Link, and digital data requirements.
- Works with operations to maximize compound and product migration opportunities, being the technically respected voice and driving through opportunities.
- Defines and concludes product migration legacy issues.
- Sets an Engineering Functional Leader direction and rallies the organization and team around the vision.
- Modernizes the compounds portfolio to drive technical and competitive advantage.
- Conceives original ideas for new materials products through effective voice of customer, market knowledge, and technical understanding of competitors.
- Has a solid understanding of competitor products and IP positions.
- Identifies and documents common working practices across the global footprint to ensure all elements of compliance are maintained and relevant.
- Creates a team framework to support PM, Sales, Marketing, and PIC teams with customer inquiries, including product cross references, specifications, drawings, data, and product knowledge.
- Supports Global Operations with compound and product-related issues, deciding on the disposition of NCR material and suggesting ways of saving NCR compound.
- Manages raw material shortages globally in close collaboration with Operations, Purchase, PM, Sales, and Quality.
- Manages raw material issues, obsolescence, continuity of supply, and suggests material alternatives.
- Builds relationships and chairs working parties to improve material supply and future material development with suppliers.
- Rationalizes raw materials and compounds, reviews trade-offs to performance, and makes recommendations to drive engineering efficiencies without impacting performance.
- Acts as the fact holder and recognized authority on legislation impacts affecting raw materials, compounding, and product families.
- Responsible for product qualification from market definition through production and release.
- Provides all required engineering documentation, including formulations and compounding parameters.
- Submits all IP information to legal according to policy and prior to public disclosure.
- Leads the global team responsible for sustaining life cycle engineering.
- Sets and manages financial budgets for the function.
- Defines and cascades standard working practices around part maintenance activities, including raising and maintaining part numbers, ECN, ECR, PCNs, PDM Link, and digital data requirements.
- Works with operations to maximize compound and product migration opportunities, being the technically respected voice and driving through opportunities.
- Defines and concludes product migration legacy issues.
What your background should look like:
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10+ years materials science, engineering leadership experience in a sustaining environment.
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Degree in material science.
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Strong Leadership skills
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Strong business acumen - and a good understanding of technical complexities.
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Considerable experience working with the product technology, processes, or market
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Experience in building and mentoring effective teams.
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Creative thinker able to provide deliverable input to the development of technical solutions solidly.
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Ability to understand technically complex materials developments and processes.
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Experienced Functional Engineering leader with an ability to influence cross functional teams and to build strong relationships both internally and externally.
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Proactive approach to design for cost, quality, and manufacturability
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Knowledge of Voice of Customer, Design to Value, Design for Six Sigma, LEAN Manufacturing and LEAN business processes is preferred.
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Excellent verbal and written communications skills
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Ability to set clear deliverables, communicate, negotiate, and drive results.
Competencies
SWINDON, SWD, GB, SN3 5HH
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