Drive business objectives / improvements impacting product line-wide measures. Identifies opportunities that enhance business performance through CI activities. Conduct bi-annual competitor analysis comparison of product features and capabilities. Monitor and analyze product warranty and service history trends. Conduct root cause analysis on systemic issues. Build/own Product Line Engineering processes for activities such as, change requests, design deviations, engineering test plans, test history, training, and design guides. Product line support for vendors, customers, sales, and manufacturing. Manage communications with satellites, main plants, AE's, and product management. Take ownership of engineering projects post-Gate 5. Provide requirements for NPI projects to pass each Gate review. Investigate and evaluate opportunities for product improvement and cost out. Ensure compliance with all codes and standards working with these agencies. Provide technical support for our standard offerings to the manufacturing teams at all 19 facilities. Provide technical support for our standard offerings to the Customer Order Engineering teams. Ensure smooth launch of new designs and product changes to all plants involved with the product line and monitoring of standards among all plants. Provide guidance and work with manufacturing engineers/custom order engineers during product development and improvements. Ensure product documentation is standardized. Ensure product test data is stored in a common location and indexed in a single table. Responsible for design approval and documentation completeness during program gate reviews. Responsible for continuous improvement activities throughout the engineering team. Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from an accredited institution. Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in design and manufacturing processes. Minimum of five (5) years of experience with power distribution equipment. Minimum of ten (10) years of experience as a manager of people. Certification for Design for Six Sigma At least 2 years of experience designing products under UL 50, UL 67, and UL 891 standards Product Life-cycle management systems and their structure. Predictive analysis such as CFD (thermal flow), FEA (stress analysis), and electro-magnetic. Fabrication methods for sheet metal, plastic, copper, and aluminum. Proper bus joint design.
