ENGINEERING MANAGER
Bemsiq AB
- Moncton, NB
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- This position is a key member of the management team and will oversee the Engineering department including Mechanical Design, Software Design, Hardware Design, and Testing.
- Management of Product Life Cycle management activities related to product design content for New Product Development activities, Product Renovations, and implementation of Bug/Fix solutions.
- Research and Development of emerging technologies to deliver innovative products including management of a Technology Roadmap in cooperation with Product Management.
- Lead and manage Engineering processes including improvements and implementation of best practices using a Product Management Life Cycle Application as the foundation to the sole source of the truth.
- In addition to managing the Development team, this role requires collaborating with the leadership team, Engineering, Product Management, Sales/Business Development, Manufacturing and Quality.
- Develop and implement policies, standards, and procedures across all Engineer Disciplines for technical work performed within each discipline.
- Analyze, propose, and manage budgets and resources for near term projects as well as long term product roadmaps.
- Must effectively develop, articulate, and continually evolve the company’s strategic technical direction in cooperation with Product Management and Engineering Technical leads.
- Advise the leadership team on long-term technical strategic direction and where to, or to not, make strategic technical investments.
- Collaborate with HR and Team Managers to identify and develop retention, recruitment and training/PD resources based on assessed needs.
- Prioritize, delegate, and supervise all Engineering activities and deliverables across R&D disciplines including Mechanical Design, Embedded Software Design, Hardware Design and Testing.
- Assist with high-level planning of Engineering Development timelines as inputs to overall project management plans.
- Working with Technical Design Leads, identify technical problems, evaluate solutions, and present findings and conclusions to the management team, customers and manufacturing as needed.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, technical diploma, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of Engineering experience in a multi-disciplined environment including manufacturing environment.
- Experience in managing a team of Engineers to execute against best practices and continually improve Engineering policies and procedures.
- Experience of HVAC and/or Electronics would be a strong asset.
- Experience in Electro-Mechanical New Product Introduction environments.
- Regularly conduct one on one, team and Roadmap meetings.
- Ability to build appropriate environments to foster talents, innovation, and delivery of effective development strategies.
- In-depth understanding of budget preparation and business planning.
- In cooperation with Project Management, plan, monitor and report on design project status.
- Facilitating internal and external design reviews with the product team, internal customers, and external customers to confirm if all technical and schedule requirements are met.
- Organizing and executing continuous improvements to the product line to enhance the total product quality.
- Continuously assess the skills and capacity of the design team and make recommendations for improvements.