Principal Field Application Engineer - Safety Systems at TE Connectivity in Troy, MI

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Job Overview

TE Connectivity’s Field Application Engineering (FAE) teams scout the field (traditional and new customers) seeking new or unique product applications with a specific Safety Systems view. This includes, airbags, seat belt tensioning, braking systems, vehicle stability control, driver monitoring systems, impact detection/avoidance systems, tire pressure sensing, pedestrian protection, and battery disconnect devices.

• Develop a cross-customer and cross-product line perspective

• Deep digging for applications to lead to business development opportunities and technical development.

• Apply technologies and products in different applications with systems solutions capability.

• Seek unique/critical/strategic applications for our products to solve customer gaps

• Understand the customer's strategy and technology roadmap, the competition, and trends and apply this knowledge to bring TE solutions.

• Attend industry conferences and scout technologies and applications to stay current.

• Be a catalyst and inputter in the innovation/technology pipeline road mapping.

• Analysis of customer requirements and leader of customer dialogs for interpretation and achievement of best technical solution.

• Influence solutions and RFQ. Technical linkage between customer location and remote TE sites.

• Working knowledge of applicable technical standards for implementation of new connectivity solutions.

• Develop requirements and communicate with development engineering.

What you will be doing:

Market Sensing & Strategy Development within Safety Systems

• Articulate market trends, demand drivers, customer needs, industry trends, and competitive landscape

• Develop product roadmaps that aligns with business strategy

• Work with R&D and operations in the development of new products to meet current and future customer requirements.

• Identify market product offerings and sponsor into PAC ahead of customer need

• Provide thought leadership and drive the process within Automotive BU of assessing the strategic fit, synergy potential, and key risks to enable the executive team to make well-informed inorganic investment decisions

• Develop new ideas and constructively challenge existing ones, for the organization to refine its “where to play” and “how to win” choices to drive growth, and sustain competitive advantage

• Lead strategy development for opportunities that break new ground and expand total addressable market

Develop Business Plan (Achieve cross-functional alignment to the plan)

• Define resource requirements necessary to execute the product roadmap

• Drive collaboration with Product Managers, Engineering, and Sales to bring VOC into the business, shaping focus markets, applications, and product requirements.

• Interface between the TE Engineering design team and the customer to ensure that both sides understand the requirements and have all needed information available

• Lead coordination and early involvement of and on-time communication with all involved TE internal departments (account manager, engineering, production, quality, project management, marketing, etc. as fit)

Meet targets on the following KPI’s:

• Gross (or standard) Margin $ and %

• New product applications found

• Customer engagements

• Translation to Engineering TERP

• Build out of technology and product road map

• LEEP projects added

• Bringing business development opportunities

What your background should look like:

• 4-year technical or business degree required

• Advanced degree (MBA) or relevant P&L management experience preferred

• 7+ years of engineering or program management experience

• Relevant product or industry experience desired

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Competencies

Values: Integrity, Accountability,Teamwork, Innovation