Senior Project Engineer, Battery Development

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides leadership over multiple low-moderate complex design projects.
• Provides direction, guidance and engineering expertise to team members.
• Reviews work of designers, engineers and other project team members.
• Responsible for the completion of assigned engineering projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines.
• Communicates, both verbal and written, to assure all groups are working toward the goal of timely project completion.
• Communicate technical details, ideas, and concepts to engineers and non-engineers in multiple locations.
• Drive design of project to meet market driven design guides and fulfill cost, timing, reliability, and high-volume manufacturing requirements.
• Analyze, evaluate and select from design execution alternatives to best meet specification objectives and implement designs into mass production.
• Accountable for technical elements of project execution including integration of complicated components and assemblies, material selection, packaging and safety, regulatory and standards compliance.
• Conduct design and safety reviews as needed to gain necessary approvals for product development phase progressions.
• Comply with all METCo procedures covering Product Support and Value Engineering development and design output in addition to procedures of non-engineering departments related to project flow.
• Schedules, develops agendas, facilitates and documents project meetings.
• Frame up technical tradeoff discussions with Marketing and other cross function team members.
• Exercise effective scheduling development work to meet overall project milestones.
• Ensure effective communication with cross functional international team as well as management team.
• Motivate cross functional team to work toward, and accomplish, project objectives.
• Maintain focus of project team on cost, performance and schedule.
• Identify project risks and implement risk reduction plans.
• Manufacturing Interacts extensively with manufacturing plants and outside suppliers to achieve project goals.
• Makes component material or process recommendations.
• Testing Exhibits vision and foresight to test the extremes of a design and guide the team members through well thought out, logical test regimes.

Education And Experience Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related engineering field.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Experience successfully managing low-moderate complexity projects and/or subsystems of larger projects.
• Leading cross functional teams through problem solving Electrical Project Experience is a plus but not required.
• Mechanical/Electrical engineering aptitude including a broad knowledge of engineering materials used in power tools and accessories as well as an understanding of manufacturing process associated with these materials.
• Must have a working design knowledge of a wide variety of the technologies associated with Milwaukee products.
• Must be able to personally conduct detailed analyses, or recognize the need and seek the appropriate expertise to achieve the desired results.
• Ability to draft compressive test plans and specifications.
• CAD Skill Level: Basic 3D CAD and tolerance analysis.
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA)
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office software including Microsoft Project.
• Ability to travel internationally required (10-15% travel).

Qualifications

• Equal Opportunity Employer.