Engineering Manager

Job Description Summary: Engineering Manager

This position is expected to successfully lead a team to drive regional and local goals on product design, localization, and sustaining engineering. This position is based in Ningbo China and reports to China Operations Director.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Leads Ningbo engineering team to closely work with marketing, sales, production, quality, and sourcing teams for new product development from design, validation to mass production.
• Takes lead on design and its optimization of product with short time-to-market at competitive cost.
• Ensures design quality by complying the procedures in all design and development activities and using critical six-sigma tools like VOC, DOE, DFX, with sharp mind-set of six-sigma design or concurrent engineering.
• Coaches the team in efficient and effective way/methodology and motivates the team to achieve high performance.
• Supports the organization’s intellectual property strategy by documenting data and independent, unique, and patentable ideas that result from experimentations and concept generation activities.
• Ensures quality in a product’s design for usability, reliability, functionality, marketability, and manufacturability.
• Leads the team to integrate products and optimize product categories;
• Keeps abreast of latest product developments with the organizational product development trend, and translating those developments into new and viable options for the organization and customers etc.
• Applies Design to Cost and Design for Manufacturability methods to achieve project objectives.
• Ensures proper design and development documentation.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor or above, majored in mechanical engineering, or HVAC, Master degree preferred

MANAGEMENT:

Whole engineering team, around 10+ ppl

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years working experience and strong background on design and development of mechanical products (intelligence control products experience is a strong plus, at least similar project management experience)
• 5+ years of leading a team of engineers and manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders
• Good oral and written English (working language is English with major stakeholders overseas)
• Strong communication and project management skills;
• Capability of building a strong team, organizational change and talent development;
• Capability of solving problems which are complex and require extensive investigation and analysis;
• Ability to influence others to accept practices and approaches, and ability to communicate and influence executive leadership.