Manager, Design Center

About the role

The Manager Design Center role is responsible for managing the Engineering and future Sales Technical support for a product line. This role typically leads a team of 1-6 engineers who conceive, design, and execute engineered solutions meeting the performance requirements of products for the Business Unit's served.

Responsibilities

• Determines where product can be designed or re-designed, or new product lines introduced, to meet new customer or market requirements.
• Increase information quality and volume from Market with KC technology team to be shared with divisions, so that they can expand overseas business and contribute to divisional financial targets.
• Research customer design needs and assigns design engineers to appropriate projects.
• Delegates resources to US production operations in close contact with KC production.
• Addresses lingering engineering issues related to new and existing products which limit market gain.
• Affords assistance with new business inquiries and explores market opportunities based on Kyocera technologies, including technical partners, mergers, and acquisitions, and forming new strategic partnerships between Kyocera and outside industry.
• Collaborates with Production, engineers, ISD, Marketing, Corporate Development, and divisional Management in US operations to promote aligned new business development.
• Participates in Amoeba Management, including monthly financial analysis, reporting to KC and KII Leadership monthly and quarterly.
• Manages expenses including labor and travel.
• Contributes to Division goals and milestones for Master Plan and 3-year Plans, and for monitoring and reporting group progress in accomplishing those goals.
• Performs presentations to upper management on progress and status of various development projects.
• Develops departmental standards and ensures compliance.
• Manages daily customer interaction and relationship management within own account base in the US, Europe, and Japan, as applicable.
• Represents assigned customer requests in the US and Europe.
• May serve as main point of technical contact for a large customer or project or delegate to team members.
• Generates new business inquiries, explores opportunities for assigned group, and supports technical sales efforts in the US and Europe.
• Attends customer trials and/or experimental applications as required. May act as technical resource for customer.
• Daily account monitoring activity, including metrics tracking, scheduling, logistics, design wins, analytics and presentations.
• Mentors and manages design engineers. Trains, hires, and develops team including coaching, performance management and labor planning.
• Models ethical behavior and accurate financial reporting.

Qualifications

• 4-year Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related discipline.
• 5+ years’ experience in manufacturing or technical sales.
• 3 years management experience in engineering or production environment.
• Understanding of Customer engineering requirements, including technical drawings.
• Strong communication skills and ability to effectively collaborate with production teams in Japan.
• Knowledge of materials, related technology, production processes (Metalizing, brazing, chemical cleaning, assembly, FDA regulations, CE marking etc.), and US supply chain.
• Strong computer skills: MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of AutoCAD and SolidWorks.
• Bi-Lingual language skills preferred but not required. (Japanese and English)

Pay

Salary Range: $115,807 – $167,684 annually (Final offer based on experience, education, skills, and market factors)

Schedule

Exempt: Yes
Safety Sensitive: No