Summary:

Duties & Responsibilities:

We are looking for a core team member to act in a cross functional technical team leadership role.  The ideal candidate will have experience in complete product life cycle support – concept, research, development, new product introduction, and follow up (production support and continuous improvement).  Candidates with a strong technical background in one field, with supporting experience in a related field will be considered.

Responsibilities:   Level of ownership will depend upon seniority and area of expertise.  Growth into the role is expected.  Activities to include:

• Interact with product line management in initial program or product definition – this may be as part of a brainstorming multi-function team.
• Co-ordinate front end research programs – prototypes, evaluation, reports
• As technical lead for new product development programs:
  • Develop or support the development of requirements, specifications, and test plan.
  • Create and manage the detailed R&D schedule, provide input to resourcing plan
  • Interact with the Project Manager to support gate reviews, regular progress updates, and issue escalations
  • Participate in all technical reviews on owned programs.  Possibly lead reviews in area of expertise.
  • R&D contact prime for operations as the product moves from core development to NPI to full factory deployment in a low cost manufacturing environment (i.e. offshore)
• Technical authority – longer term:  As product familiarity grows, possible design authority role on a product family – this implies:
  • Roadmap input, architecture input
  • Life cycle R&D point of contact – factory ECO’s, Work instruction change verification, factory escalations, EOL issues
  • Customer technical issues. 

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in Physics, Eng. Physics.  Advanced degrees in the same preferred.   Degrees in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering will be considered if combined with experience in optics
• Proven background in product or systems development.
• 5+ years of experience in new product development
• Experience working with multi-discipline teams in a collaborative environment
• Strong written and verbal communications skills. 
• Proven attention to detail – compliance matrices, technical reports.
• Experience providing technical presentations to management.

If you have what it takes to push boundaries and seize opportunities, apply to join our team today.

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