Engineering Manager, LDLS

Engineering Manager, LDLS

The Engineering Manager for Energetiq’s Laser-Driven Light Source (LDLS™) business unit is responsible for all engineering activities during new product introduction for the LDLS product line. The Engineering Manager leads and develops a team of multidisciplinary design engineers to achieve project objectives and maintain the entrepreneurial atmosphere necessary to capitalize on customer and market opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage all engineering activities of the engineering team in a matrix management environment within the LDLS Engineering department including risk management, design, development, testing, transition to production, and production support

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• Develop and assess the performance of the engineering team,
• Ensure compliance to company policies, including the NPDI stage gate process,
• Work closely with product managers to gather customer requirements and develop project initiation documents,
• Partner with R&D Scientist to reduce new technology to practice,
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Quality, Procurement, and Manufacturing organizations to ensure that the needs of all stakeholders are satisfied in the development process,
• Support Project Management by activities such as work breakdown, cost estimation, resource planning, risk management, progress monitoring, and team motivation,
• Articulate goals, roles and responsibilities, assumptions, and expectations to cross-functional extended project teams, internal resources, and consultants,
• Work to proactively remove project obstacles, identify and manage issue escalations, and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities,
• Communicate technical and project information effectively to stakeholders (including communication with customers for new business or support activity),
• Act as an individual contributor when appropriate based on area of technical expertise,
• Develop and maintain relationships with consultants as needed to fill capability gaps or expand resource capacity as needed.

Qualifications & Skills

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in applicable field such as Mechanical, Electrical, or Optical Engineering (Masters preferred),
• 5+ years of hands-on design engineering experience (individual contributor),
• 1+ years experience managing product development,
• Technical proficiency in one or more of the following areas: Laser, Plasma, Optical, Electrical, Mechanical (including thermal), and/or Software/Firmware Engineering,
• Skilled in several of the following competencies: Requirements Engineering/Analysis, Engineering Analysis (including Risk), Effort and Material Cost Estimation, Design Tolerancing and Optimization, Mathematical Analysis, Modeling (CAD and/or other), Product Design, Prototyping, Project Management (Stage-Gate), Design Reviews, Engineering Management (including matrix management), Performance Reviews, Supplier Selection/Management, Project Prioritization, Communication (including presenting technical information to internal and external stakeholders), Problem Solving, Conflict Resolution, Quality Assurance Processes, Design for Reliability, Design for Manufacturability, Standard Office SW/tools.