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Provide technical leadership and management for a Powersports design function by guiding engineering output, supervising team execution, and ensuring delivery of high-quality specifications, designs, and development results. This role integrates technical expertise with organizational leadership to achieve business objectives, advance product development, maintain global quality standards, and strengthen overall engineering capability.

• Direct and approve engineering output by reviewing design specifications, calculations, drawings, and documentation to ensure accuracy, quality, and alignment with targets.
• Lead technical problem solving for development and mass production issues, driving root cause analysis, countermeasures, and risk mitigation. 
• Lead, supervise, and contribute within a design team to realize development deliverables across multiple concurrent projects. 
• Assign and balance workload, priorities, and resources to achieve development schedules and business targets.  
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and technical guidance to develop team capability and ensure consistent output quality. 
• Drive effective communication within the function and across other functions/ departments to resolve issues, align expectations, and ensure smooth execution. 
• Represent the function in discussions with management, suppliers, and global affiliates to advocate technical direction and resource needs. 
• Grow technical capability through knowledge sharing, mentorship, and development of best practices.
• Improve design processes, tools, and methods to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and repeatability (e.g., PDCA, recurrence prevention).
• Promote cross-functional learning and adoption of standardized engineering practices.
• Lead hiring and performance evaluation processes to maintain a capable and balanced organization. Support workforce planning process.
• Assist in establishing team and individual goals aligned with business objectives.
• Contribute to management activities such as planning, policy adherence, and operational continuity when needed. 

Minimum Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering for relevant field. (eg: Mechanical).
• Equivalent experience may be considered.

Minimum Experience:

• 8+ Years related work experience preferably in Powersports or Automotive field
• 2+ Years supervisory/project leadership in a similar organization.

Other Job-Specific Skills:

• Capable at providing direction to direct reports according to established policies and management guidelines.
• Strong leadership, coaching and mentoring skills.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to interact/communicate effectively with staff/management in a global organization.
• Able to resolve conflict and lead crucial conversations.
• Must be able to operate with high level of confidentiality.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook).
• Competent in FTA, FMEA, dimensional tolerance stack-ups and application.
• Competent analytical, problem solving, judgement, decision-making and prioritization.
• Competent drawing and layout skills/techniques using CAD software, including understanding of CAE principles.
• Competent in creating a plan and schedule.
• Competent in understand product development schedules.

• Travel: Average of 3-5 times annually. Amount varies based on project demands/responsibilities, conferences, etc.; includes possible overseas travel.                                                                                     
• Physical: Primarily works at a desk or scope; frequent keyboarding.  Limited kneeling, standing, squatting, reaching or bending.                                                                                                        
• Hazards: Risks found in a typical office & shop setting. May be exposed to explosives/flammables, pressurized equipment, toxic chemicals and moving parts.                                                                                                  
• Overtime: Overtime expected based on project demands/responsibilities.                                                           
• Maintains professional conduct and follows all departmental, safety DEPARTMENT, and COMPANY policies, Procedures, AND rules.