MGR I R&D/PRODUCT DVL ENGINEERING

Role details

THIS IS A HYBRID ROLE

As the Research & Development Engineering Manager, you will lead global efforts to ensure our renewable energy portfolio thrives. Your focus: timely, budget-friendly, and quality New Product Introductions, including sustainability goals. Your team will conceive original ideas for technologies and products and introduce them into practice. These exciting teams are responsible for technology evaluation and implementation; product definition, development, detailed design, verification, qualification, and release; and product sustaining activities.

You will partner with functions across the business to foster continuous improvement in our engineering systems and drive effective knowledge management within the engineering domain. You will also play a crucial role in managing engineering capacity and capability, identifying skill gaps, and devising individualized development plans to bridge these gaps effectively. Join us in this dynamic role where your leadership and expertise will shape the future of our engineering endeavors.

Job Requirements

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• Leads New Product Introduction (NPI) design engineering resources.
• Drives the spirit of innovation into the organization to design and launch differentiated products for solar PV Energy
• Partner with our customers and internal stakeholders to capture needs and expectation from product standpoint.
• Provides hands-on technical leadership through the product development cycle and recommends design approaches as required.
• Drives continuous improvement to reduce NPI cycle time & improve on-time & on-budget delivery of product development.
• Ensure close coordination of engineering teams with manufacturing development & quality engineers throughout in the development process to identify and address design for manufacturability challenges
• Enforce the proper usage of advanced quality planning tools in the development, like DFMEA and FEA (structural and rheological) to identify design risks early on and mitigation strategies
• Ensure project execution is on time, on budget and on quality to committed project execution contracts
• Management of departmental goals and objectives, regular employee conversations with purpose, and year-end evaluation processes, as well as ensuring continuous development of necessary and evolving skills in the product development function (AI…)
• Fosters a continuous improvement atmosphere, as a learning organization

What your background should look like

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• Bachelor Degree in an Engineering discipline (Master preferred); HS/GED with equivalent work related exp may be considered.
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience within an Engineering / Manufacturing environment with project responsibilities associated with product or process development, and/or project management, ideally with renewable energy, with 3 years’ experience leading engineering teams
• Ability to develop connectors and assemblies to meet critical global standards, such as ANSI, UL, IEEE, and IEC
• Component material selection to optimize strength, electrical insulation, stability, and longevity, while meeting the product and standard requirements
• Deep knowledge of product development processes in a stage-gate approach
• Possesses high degree of initiative, technical competence, engineering process knowledge and strong communication skills
• Experience in designing metal parts (stamping and/or forging and/or machining and/or casting)
• Experience in designing structural plastic or elastomeric parts
• A strong understanding of manufacturing processes combined with good technical awareness
• Adapts/makes departures from traditional approaches to enhance value in both new and existing methods and products
• Fluent communication with own team, customers, internal senior business leaders and technology leaders in English
• LDFSS or DMAIC 6-sigma black or green belt an advantage

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Competencies

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SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)

ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.

Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

COMPENSATION

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $130k - 194.9k annually (subject to change dependent on physical location)
• Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
• Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits

BENEFITS

• A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.

EOE, Including Disability/Vets

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING RECRUITMENT FRAUD

TE Connectivity has become aware of fraudulent recruitment activities being conducted by individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent TE Connectivity. Please be advised that TE Connectivity never requests payment or fees from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings are posted exclusively on our official careers website at te.com/careers, and all email communications from our recruitment team will come only from actual email addresses ending in @te.com. If you receive any suspicious communications, we strongly advise you not to engage or provide any personal information, and to report the incident to your local authorities.

Job Locations

8000 PURFOY ROAD

FUQUAY - VARINA, North Carolina 27526

United States

Posting City: FUQUAY - VARINA

Job Country: United States

Travel Required: 10% to 25%

Requisition ID: 159116

Workplace Type: Hybrid

External Careers Page: Engineering & Technology