The person in this position will be responsible for a team of Engineers in the DFP ‘Core Engineering’ team. The Core team is responsible for defining the Engineering content of 4 families of Common Rail Diesel Fuel pumps (DFP1, DFP3, DFP4 & DFP6). This position will be responsible for the ‘Drive Trains’ of all DFP products and as such will ensure synergies and commonalities between pump families will be applied, whilst functional performance, design to cost and manufacturability and quality will be achieved. The person will direct and approve any changes to the baseline (current) pump Drive train (Bearings, Drive shafts, Tappets or Shoes etc.) related components ensuring that the product teams maintain common processes and practices across the different applications while meeting the company’s excellence target (low IPTV, high FTQ and ‘quick to market’). As well this person will drive the future drive trains.
The applicant will have good technical knowledge and experience of a similar product that has been put into production. The applicant must also have a good understanding of managing a team to meet priority, cost and timing targets.
Applicant must be willing to travel for training, and/or work at the company and suppliers’ plants abroad.
Responsibilities:
· Manage a team of engineers to ensure that clear targets are defined and tracked.
· Direct the team to meet task timing using a systematic and logical Engineering approach.
· Interact with critical suppliers to understand key processes and assess and approve changes to these processes as required.
· Ensure that Engineering tasks are carried out to give a satisfactory level of confidence and consistency and that the results are suitably reported.
· Develop/present presentations to senior management addressing the progress of key tasks.
· Use failure rate analysis and statistics (e.g. Weibull) to assess risk of in-field failure.
· Apply ICIM methods using DOE, 6 Sigma, Shainin and other statistical tools to achieve product robustness. (Training will be provided to fill current gaps in experience level.)
Qualifications/Experience:
· Masters degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent in physics etc.
· Supervisory experience in Engineering, design, development or equivalent area.
· Solid experience in a leadership/management role.
· Personal strengths should include: Confidence, self-directed, goal oriented, with strong team interaction skills that facilitate cross-functional involvement.
· DOE and statistical analysis knowledge. (Training to be provided if this is a gap)
· Must be able to constructively deal with conflict situations.
· Ability to develop and present technical presentations.
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