MGR II R&D/PRODUCT DVL ENGINEERING

Job Overview

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, Solid Model, 2D/3D production drawings, product specifications, and testing requirements. They create and modify detailed drawings and drafting or conceptual models from layouts, rough sketches or notes and contribute to design modifications to facilitate manufacturing operation or quality of product. Typical fields of expertise include: materials, mechanics and 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.

What your background should look like:

•    Leads New Product Introduction (NPI) design engineering resources and sustaining engineering resources for NPI and product lifecycle management. 
•    Drives the spirit of innovation into the organization to design and launch differentiated connector products
•    Provides hands-on technical leadership through the product development cycle and recommends design approaches as required. 
•    Drives continuous improvement to reduce NPI cycle time & improve on-time & on-budget delivery of product development.
•    Ensure close coordination of engineering teams with manufacturing development & quality engineers throughout 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 and FEA (structural and rheological) to identify design risks early on and mitigation strategies
•    Implements the technology and product strategy for key product platforms 
•    Ensure project execution is on time, on budget and on quality to committed project execution contracts
•    Assesses technical risk and compliance across all aspects of product platform
•    Management of departmental goals and objectives, regular employee conversations with purpose, and year-end evaluation processes, as well as ensuring continuous development of necessary and evolving skills in the product development function
•    Plans and manages operational budget 
•    Develops the organization in support of operational strategy 
•    Fosters a continuous improvement atmosphere, as a learning organization 
•    Drives continuous improvement to reduce NPI cycle time & improve on-time & on-budget delivery of product development.

Competencies