OverviewAprilAire is currently seeking an Engineering Manager - Hardware to join us at our Sun Prairie Innovation Center! In this role you will oversee and coordinate activitywithin the internalhardwareengineering team, with responsibilitiesthat include communication and coordination across all engineering groups.Youwill also be responsible forthe robust taskof developingprocesses, creating and tracking KPIs, and providing mentorship as well as technicaland projectoversight forthe hardwareteam as needed.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the scope and schedule determination for thehardwaredevelopment and testingportionof projects
- Plan and oversee the execution of sprints within thehardwareteam(including story pointing, retrospectives, and prioritization of tasks with input from stakeholders/project managers)
- Triagehardwareissues raised andassignto theappropriate engineer
- Define and manage hardware, simulation, test, and validation performance requirements for new products
- Collaborate on circuit design, schematics, layout, analysis, and documentation
- Own hardware architecture requirements anddesignspecification documents
- Conduct design reviews and translate findings into actionable tasks
- Develop complete PCB designs, including schematics and layouts
- Provide oversite for obsolescence management and other life cycle support requirements
- Suggest and contribute to the development of R&D concepts
- Continuously improvedevelopment processes based oncutting edgebest-practices
- Ensure the team followsapproved hardwaredesign and reviewprocesses
- Track and reporthardwareKPIs including schedule status, sprint velocity,andhardware testfindings
- Act asapoint of contact for specification clarity and alignment
- Communicate deliverables to test teamsand other stakeholders.
- Updatemanagerwithbi-weekly sprintreports
- Identifyandappropriatelyflag risks
- Contribute to andparticipatein gate reviews
- Collaborate with product owner, program manager, and stakeholders to define project milestones, requirements, and estimate task efforts for our hardware development
- Provide oversightand mentorship forhardwareengineers.
- Assistprojectmanagersin keeping track ofhardwaredevelopment and testingportions of the schedule and budget
- Work closely with qualityteam to develop andmaintainprocesses tovalidatehardware
- Build a diverse and high-performing team through strategic hiring, talent development, and effective role alignment
- Management of external hardware resourcesused to supplement our internal engineers, as needed
- Set and manage individual and team goals focused on capability building, efficiency, and performance
- Willing and capable of travelling between AprilAirefacilities, suppliers, and customers. Expected amount of travel is small(1-2 trips a year outside of WI)
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, or related field.
- 7-10yearsofexperience as ahardware engineer.
- 1-3 years ofprojectmanagementorpeopleleadershipexperience.
- Outstandingwritten and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with both internal and external stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Experience in hardware reliability analysis, FMEA required.
- Experience in conducting root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions.
- Experience in document creation including specifications, design descriptions, design & test reports.
- Experience designing products for manufacture.
- Experience with electrical CAD tools, preferably Altium Designer.
- Experience with increasing responsibility in project development withdemonstratedleadership success
- Organizational, coordination, and multi-tasking experience
- Strong understanding of analog and digital circuit designprincipals, including PCB layout and design for EMC.
- Experienceestablishingwork relationships across multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience takinga designfrom architecture through to production.
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