Lead and mentor a mechanical engineering team of around 25 mixed level engineers effectively working for new product development from concept to production.
Provide in-project key technical decisions on mechanical engineering direction, guidance to the team enabling right and effective engineering work carried out.
Provide critical inputs of tooling strategies, supplier selection, material selection in general guidelines, and/or project specific where needed.
Accountable for team’s project deliverables on time, on quality and on cost.
Identify technical and/or technology advancement opportunities from in-flight projects to initiate advanced development work from the Technical Block team, drive product evolution cadence with meaningful innovation inputs.
Foster the team’s competence to the industrial leading standard in line with ever changing technology dynamics around wider Mechanical domain.
Continuously review and drive mechanical engineering standardization, part commonality, cost effectiveness to the next level.
Continuously review and improve working process of the team, with x-functional team internally, and with external development partners.
Lead the team in supporting products’ continuous improvement, analysis of quality reports, and any other post launch engineering ECNs where needed.
Develop strategies for continuously driving Design-for-Quality, Design-for-Cost, Design-for-Manufacturability (incl. Design-for-Automation), and Design for Sustainability.
Shape the team collaborative and innovative work environment, enable a progressive & inclusive culture.
EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE
ESSENTIAL
Experience Required
12+ years of experience in R&D mechanical engineering area of large-scale consumer electronic products.
5+ years’ experience of hands-on design (3D CAD creation, tolerance analysis, 2D sketch creation) work; 5+ years' experience of leading a R&D mechanical engineering team for large-scale consumer electronic products.
Experience in engineering area of small dimension, larger scale (hundreds of thousand pcs per month) consumer electronics products is a critical plus.
Experience in engineering area of portable devices is valuable plus; Hands-on experience of tooling is valuable plus.
Deep understanding of mechanical design principles, materials mechanics, and tooling, manufacturing processes for high volume production. High level understanding of product development quality concepts.
Master of tolerance analysis, statistical engineering, material properties and selection in consumer electronics domain.
Strong developer of people, ability to coach and manage the personal development of direct reports in the team
Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
Thinking strategically, driving results and be able to challenge the status quo.
Great collaboration skills working with wider x-functional teams e.g. Quality, Procurement, Operation etc.
Speaking English in technical discussion and presentation level.