Engineering Manager (Mechanical Systems)
The Engineering Manager (Mechanical Systems) will lead and develop a talented team of mechanical engineers that deliver mass-production opto-mechanical systems for our Augmented-Reality Head-Up Display (AR-HUD) products. Critical to the role is to deliver to schedule several concurrent mechanical designs needed at various stages of product maturity (including from reference design through to automotive-grade qualified systems for mass production). A key part of this role is to strengthen our clients overall Mechanical capabilities (including DFT and DFM), improve design efficiency and quality, update design processes (PDM/PLM).
Duties and responsibilities
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Ensure that our clients’ products and components are developed in accordance with project & customer requirements, product specifications and program schedules.
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Line management of the current mechanical engineering team including project planning, sample scheduling and resource allocation & planning (internal and/or outsourced).
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Coordinate activities with other members of the technical and project management team responsible for project and program delivery, identifying risks to delivery and planning mitigation as needed.
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Support development within automotive development processes, in line with APQP and appropriate design validation steps towards product launch, including environmental compliance.
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Lead the team with appropriate change management processes, root cause analyses, corrective action requests, problem-solving teams as related to issues affecting the project
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Ensure best-practices are instilled in the development process, with appropriate requirements capture, design documentation, design reviews, design-for-test, design-for-manufacturing, validation plans and execution.
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Work with contract manufacturing to ensure the designs progressively mature in the development process, from cost, manufacturability, and quality perspectives. Oversee ECOs and eBOM management within a new PLM/PDM framework.
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Work with the Supply Chain team to ensure that our clients designs are robust to supply chain shortages and risks, and achieve lowest overall integration and manufacturing costs.
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Support industrialization activities with critical new suppliers, from trial samples to high volume samples.
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Manage the professional development of reports via team meetings, one-to-one meetings, appraisals, appropriate training etc., enabling them to contribute efficiently and effectively to the needs of the business.
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