Assistant Manager-Product Engineering-Fuses

About the role

S&C Electric Company is seeking a dynamic individual to join our Product Engineering team as Assistant Manager-Product Engineering. You will be crucial in ensuring continued innovation and supporting our diverse team.

Responsibilities

• Support the oversight of product engineering activities for assigned product lines, focusing on short-term operational goals and ensuring work is scheduled and completed on time.
• Manage a team of engineers and designers to execute sustaining engineering activities for fuse product lines, including product requirement analysis, specifications, design, testing, implementation, and documentation.
• Coach and train the engineering team members to ensure an elevated level of productivity and performance.
• Set and manage short-term operational goals for the product engineering team, ensuring alignment with tactical plans set by senior leaders.
• Provide engineering oversight for product improvement projects and product extension projects. Create project schedules, tasks, and project completion time estimates, and manage the engineering team to deliver projects on time and of high-quality.
• Assist in managing product feedback and issues that arise from Salesforce or other sources, ensuring that the team addresses customer concerns or identified issues promptly. Offer technical input on RMA evaluations, review, and approve RMA reports, and manage implementation of product and process changes as required.
• Work closely with Assembly, Manufacturing Engineering, and Quality teams to ensure product designs meet quality and manufacturing standards. Offer technical support and guidance, and work with these teams to resolve internal product issues.
• Generate technical documentation, procedures, and reports to document processes.
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the Product Engineering team, including scheduling work, tracking progress, and ensuring timely delivery of projects.
• Manage departmental administrative team member processes, including recruitment, induction, vacation management, performance reviews, performance improvement plans, and workforce/succession planning.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and collaboration, promoting cross-functional interactions and knowledge sharing among team members.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives for process improvements, gathering feedback, analyzing data, and implementing enhancements to optimize performance and efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering
• 7-10 years of experience in product engineering, product support, design, and development experience.
• Rounded communication skills (written, verbal, listening, and presentation); able to liaise with internal and external stakeholders and present compellingly.
• Rounded project management skills with the ability to lead projects and product implementations, plan and manage short-term goals, scheduling, and day-to-day team operations.
• Great interpersonal skills to establish meaningful relationships built on mutual trust and respect, navigate and resolve conflict, moderate behaviors, and foster collaborative working relationships amongst a diverse audience.
• Excellent problem-solving skills (i.e., 4SPS, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives).
• Experience in electro-mechanical system design, assembly, fabrication, and testing.
• Sound business sense and analytical skills with the ability to use and analyze data to drive informed decisions, solve complex problems, and drive learning.
• Experience with high-power and high-voltage testing and ample knowledge of IEEE standards for medium and high-voltage fuses.
• Ability to travel.