Engineering Team Leader ( PET HR)
Location: Burlington, VT
Plan, organize and lead a design team for new product development with adherence to Product Development Process, Husky Standards and Stage Gate. Responsibilities include estimating effort and cost and ensuring delivery meets time, cost and quality targets. Implementation of continuous improvement activities including metrics, root cause analysis and implementation of improvement.
Responsibilities
- Leadership of engineering design team through Product Development Process. Specifically, supervising and supporting team members regarding:
- Marketing support, product definition, specification, scoping and VOC
- Concept development, evaluation and recommendation
- Risk mitigation through past service issue research, risk identification and formal DFMEA
- System level design with high attention to detail and adherence to Husky standards
- Engineering analysis using hand calculation, spreadsheet and CAE formats
- Design execution with high attention to detail in engineering quality
- Validation plan development
- Design document discipline
- Preparation for Product Release Process
- Team member development through: providing challenging goals, coaching, mentoring, providing technical leadership opportunity, performance management, individual development planning, interviewing and hiring
- Team support in developing innovative environment; both formal (tools) and informal
- Development of open communication amongst team, across disciplines, outside engineering
- Project and resource plan development
- Proactive management of project budgets, status, execution timeline and mitigation as required
- Proactive communication of team status to management
- Continuous development of team output to a high quality standard
- Weekly facilitation of team design reviews and team planning whiteboards
- Technical support for Sales and Service
Qualifications:
- Strong knowledge of Product Development Process, Stage Gate, Husky Standards
- Understands Quality function deployment processes
- Strong knowledge of specific supporting discipline
- Strong knowledge of Husky products and customer base
- Strong project, time management skills and ability to delegate tasks and projects
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and develop/mentor a team
- Strong decision-making and judgment
- Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, interpersonal and presentation)
- Strong sense of integrity
- Demonstrates high degree of flexibility and embraces changing priorities
- Previous hands on design experience
- Post secondary education (University engineering degree preferred), or 5-10 years of equivalent work experience
- 5 years of engineering experience.
- Leadership experience preferred.
- Previous project management experience an asset
- Solid design engineering skills.
Debby Millhouse has been honored as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Women by The Mecklenburg Times in recognition of her impact on the Charlotte community. She was named to the Business Leader Hall of Fame as one of the top entrepreneurs in the Charlotte area, to the Business Leader list of Movers & Shakers, and to the Business Leader list of 2008 Women Extraordinaire, which recognizes women of extraordinary accomplishment and contribution. She was also named a 2006 Women in Business Achievement Award winner by Charlotte Business Journal for significant business accomplishments.
