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

Ensure that our clients’ products and components are developed in accordance with project & customer requirements, product specifications and program schedules.
Line management of the current mechanical engineering team including project planning, sample scheduling and resource allocation & planning (internal and/or outsourced).
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.
Support development within automotive development processes, in line with APQP and appropriate design validation steps towards product launch, including environmental compliance.
Lead the team with appropriate change management processes, root cause analyses, corrective action requests, problem-solving teams as related to issues affecting the project
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.
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.
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.
Support industrialization activities with critical new suppliers, from trial samples to high volume samples.
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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