Engineering Manager - Niepołomice
Nr Ref.: 1802068
Woodward is a multinational company with leading edge technology, headquartered in Fort Collins, CO - USA. We are an independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of energy control and optimization solutions for commercial and military aircraft, turbines, reciprocating engines, and electrical power system equipment. Global customers in the aerospace, power and process industries, and transportation markets rely on Woodward technology to make their equipment more efficient and reliable minimizing environmental impact.
Join our Electronics Platform Group as Engineering Manager. EPG is a central engineering organization within Industrial Control Systems appointed to design and develop electronics platform projects.
We are seeking a skilled and passionate professional to manage international engineering team, which develops embedded electronics systems for industrial control applications.
Key Essential Functions:
- Managing an international, multi-disciplinary team of software and electronics engineering experts – EPG (Electronics Platform Group) in four different Woodward plants
- Supporting platform programs through leverage of members skills, knowledge and abilities
- Assigning resources as required to supports programs based on ICS portfolio priorities
- Providing various technology expertise to leverage as required and support the growth of the business
- Preparing Platform and Technology Roadmaps
- Looking for innovations and driving new technologies, concepts and practices in an effort to provide design solutions that are significantly more competitive
- Preparation and facilitation of 'EPG portfolio reviews'
- Driving robust design culture through continuous systemic improvements and reuse of software & hardware
- Assuring the leverage of all Woodward groups and assets
- Develops, maintains, and improves a highly effective and well skilled staff to carry out actions to complete planned objectives throughout:
- Utilizing the talent management system
- Completing review process and salary planning
- Maintaining and executing a training matrix
- Appropriately staffing the group to meet business demands and objectives
- Anticipating, identifying and resolving project risks
- Developing budget to support profit planning activities and managing within the approved constraints to support achievement of profitability objectives
- Responsible for goal flow down from the Corporate level to actionable activities
- Supports other groups or segments within Woodward with expertise and manpower to the extent possible when critical situations arise
Job Qualifications/Requirements:
- Masters, PhD or International equivalent required, preferably in Electrical or Software Engineering
- 8-12 years engineering experience in an identical or closely related field
- Proven management experience is required
- International leadership experience will be a differentiating factor
- Excellent people, time management, and project management skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Highly refined communication and presentation skills
- Effective communication skills in English
- Excellent technical savvy and ability to reach consensus on technical direction
- Significant product portfolio and organizational knowledge
- Significant technical toolbox (trade-studies, brainstorming, design evaluation matrices, risk management, CAD systems, test methods and systems, configuration management, DFMEA, IDE and standard software development tools)
- Ability to coach, mentor, and motivate individuals to perform beyond their comfort zone
- Superb risk management skills for robust design
- Good strategic thinking skills (specifically relating to the corporate strategic planning and execution)
- Deep understanding of product development methods and processes
WE OFFER:
- Stable employment within a growing and dynamic team
- Advancement opportunities in international team
- Competitive base pay
- A total rewards package, that includes: private health insurance, life & accidental insurance, foreign languages courses, Multisport package
- Company performance bonus program
- Work-life balance, semi-flexible working time
- Employee – friendly renumeration structrure based on creative works (available for selected positions)
- Relocation package