Product Development Manager (EM25184)

Job # EM25184

**Job Title ** Product Development Manager

**Office Location ** Houston, TX preferred

**Business Function/Department ** Technology / Product Development

**Sales Territory, if applicable **

**General Role Description **

Develop and maintain an engineering team for the research and development of power electronics and tools and controls technologies to meet Mid-Range Plan (MRP) commitments within a set of capital and human resources on a rolling 2 year time horizon.

**Role Accountabilities **

• Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees to ensure successful development of products delivered to the Business Units (BU’s)

• Create, implement, and monitor a process for efficient resource assignments

• Research and assess the Company’s power electronics and tools and controls performance and competitive position; recommend appropriate R&D projects and investments to immediate manager and BU management

• Monitor and investigate emerging power electronics, controls, embedded control hardware and software, and drive programming tool software technologies; recommend appropriate R&D projects and investments to the immediate manager and BU management

• Create, develop, budget and manage R&D project and investment activities to meet business needs

• Develop, monitor and manage team engineering capitalization and project expense budgets to meet business needs

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with parent company to secure approval for requested R&D projects and to obtain advance information about new power electronics and tools and controls products

• Investigate product failures and recommend corrective actions, as requested by immediate manager

• Prepare input for product development project status updates to immediate manager, staff, and BU’s

• Monitor skill base within the team and report opportunities for skills improvement to immediate manager

• Ensure team members possess the necessary knowledge and skills and are trained to meet current and future needs per the MRP

• Cooperate with other functional groups and other group companies to ensure projects are executed successfully

• Establish and maintain a pool of qualified contract engineers to meet current and future needs per the MRP

• Ensure client issues are resolved, at job site if necessary. Escalate to appropriate management as needed

**General Employee Accountabilities **

• Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

• Give manager best advice

• Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

• Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

• Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

• Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

• Recommend viable improvements proactively

• Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

**Manager Accountabilities **

• Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees

• Plan for, appropriately assign, resource, and integrate the work of the team

• Lead, expect, and implement continuous improvement

• Own the output of the team

• Ensure team members fulfill functional and general employee accountabilities

• Exercise effective managerial leadership to include

• Two-way managerial team working

• Fair and just treatment of direct reports

• Context setting

• Planning

• Task assignment

• Ongoing performance management

• Coaching

• Selection and orientation

• De-selection and dismissal

Requirements

**Minimum Qualifications **

• Bachelor of science in electrical, electronic, or mechanical engineering or equivalent via education and/or work experience

• 5 years of technical product development project leadership or technical management experience in any combination of power electronics and tools and controls in an industry related to the Company’s served industries

• 7 years of experience in power electronics or tools and controls development-

• Demonstrated success leading high performance engineering teams to accomplish business goals

• Demonstrated presentation skills

• Demonstrated success managing financial results to plan in an industry related to the Company’s served industries

• Demonstrated experience with patents and intellectual property matters

• Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts

• Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills

• Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility

• Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, MS Projects and an ERP business system

• Availability to travel domestically and internationally, approximately 20%, sometimes with limited notice

**Preferred Qualifications **

• Master of science in electrical, electronic, or mechanical engineering

• 15 years of experience in power electronics or tools and controls development

• Demonstrated successful working relationships with foreign parent or subsidiary companies

• Demonstrated success leading remotely located teams

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website:https://www.tmeic.com/. To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting. A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application. Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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