As Dextra Manufacturing Design Engineering Manager, you will be accountable for product design and product performance projects, as well as the continuous improvement of existing products to enhance Dextra Manufacturing innovation and product performance capabilities.
You will be responsible for:
Management and Leadership:
- Lead and mentor the engineering and product performance teams in their assignments, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.
- Coordinate activities with other functions and departments, ensuring seamless integration and communication across the organization.
- Set project priorities based on their strategic importance to the Group, ensuring alignment with overall business goals.
- Organize and participate in knowledge transfer within Dextra Group, promoting continuous learning and development.
- Prepare and present weekly and monthly reports, including detailed time management and risk analysis, to keep stakeholders informed and projects on track.
- Propose and implement in coordination with HR the learning path of direct subordinates consistently with Dextra's needs (Individual Development Plans).
- Implement the HR Policies and the company PMS process (set up KPls and competencies, regular feedback and 1/1, final assessment, career path proposition).
- Keeps management informed about progress and problems, mitigate risks, and propose action plan.
- Contribute to the Company Dashboards elaboration and filing.
Design Engineering:
- Implement and oversee project management systems to ensure a systematic approach to all engineering projects.
- Manage and coordinate engineering changes within the company, ensuring smooth transitions, compliance with standard and quality requirements and minimal disruptions.
- Lead and facilitate development projects through design, transition, and industrialization stages, ensuring timely and successful completion.
- Conduct and supervise engineering calculations, product simulations and assessments through Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and studies on products, ensuring accuracy, reliability and provide expert guidance.
- Develop and present recommendations and proposals related to product design and manufacturing, based on thorough calculations and simulations.
- Establish guidelines and instructions for common product calculation methods, ensuring consistency and best practices.
- Coordinate and manage subcontracted studies with outside agencies, ensuring alignment with company standards and objectives.
- Perform and oversee risk management activities to minimize project risks and ensure project success.
Product Performance
- Oversee the investigation of product issues, utilizing root-cause analysis methods, and communicate findings, advice, and solutions to sales staff, customers, and regulatory agencies.
- Prepare detailed reports on sample preparation and investigations, including root cause analysis.
- Provide on-site and remote support to Dextra customers on product certification projects, offering instructions and consultations in coordination with the Product Certification team.
- Coordinate and lead the assignment of Engineers in assisting the preparation of splice samples both locally and abroad.
- Ensure compliance statements in commercial documentation are accurate and up-to-date.
- Coordinate the preparation and control of technical documentation (Datasheets, Assembly instructions) with other functions.
- Develop and document standard solutions and methods for frequently raised issues in a FAQ system for various product ranges.
- Supervise and coordinate the team’s participation in academic research programs whenever applicable.
- Provide recommendations and proposals for product design or manufacturing based on research and experimental testing as a result from product performance investigations
- Support in the validation of construction methods trials in our workshop when required
- You may also be assigned additional duties as needed. On the scope of work described above, produce weekly and monthly reports to your manager to track the project advancements (actual vs forecast) including root cause analysis.
Functional Competencies
- Project management: Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule and scope including execution and communication with project team and steering committee.
- Continuous improvement: Define or modify product / equipment or processes to improve performances (resource or cost efficiency…).
- Process analysis: Analyze operational, process, production, economic or other data to understand and capitalize on process characteristic and limitation to provide conclusion/solution.
- Product applications understanding: To analyze customer needs, challenges and technical construction applications, to drive Dextra's offer to meet those expectations in an impacting manner. Product Knowledge
- Engineering and technical knowledge: To interpret and produce engineering drawing (mechanical, electrical,….)
- Computer skills: To use Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, intranet, internet, ERP (as applicable) at the level needed for the work application.
General Competencies
- Customer orientation
- Can do attitude
- Pro-active personality
- Analytical thinking
- Building collaborative relationships
- Communication information
- Information gathering
- Organizational awareness
- Planning and organizing
- Listening and understanding
- Managing change
- Written communication
- Time management
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical engineering, civil engineering, or other related Engineering disciplines
- 5+ years of relevant experience in design engineering or civil engineering, with experience in project management
- Experience working in similar management role, leading technical teams toward successful product delivery
- Excellent written and verbal communication skill
- CAD application
- Solidworks/ Solidworks PDM
- Microsoft Office
- Project Management Software
- Strong creative thinking and problem solving
- Self-initiative