Bourns, Inc., a leading global supplier of reliable, high quality electronic components and solutions, offers exciting and challenging careers for growth-oriented professionals. Our goal is to satisfy our worldwide customer base while achieving sound growth with strong application solutions based on technological products of innovative design, superior quality and exceptional value.
We are seeking a Director of Engineering to make significant contributions to growth and profit through the development and support of Trimpot, Materials Group, and Fixed Resistors operations.
In this position you will provide leadership, planning, management, and development of the Trimpot, Materials Group, Fixed Resistors engineering teams. Align new product development with the Product Line Managers and Market Directors to ensure product development meets or exceeds market and customer requirements. Lead the engineering team with a Six Sigma mentality to ensure excellent customer service, with a focus on continuous improvement, cost effectiveness, and superior product development.
This role has the following accountabilities:
- Drives operations in continuous improvement, cost reduction, yield, quality improvement, supply chain development, and use of integrated systems for managing engineering and production processes.
- Builds and maintains an engineering team to ensure excellence through the selection of qualified staff members, including the development and promotions of employees, while ensuring the team receives technical training that enables them to keep abreast of evolving technical trends.
- Sets the overall direction of the Engineering organization that secures the long-term success of the Business Unit by:
- Defining organization structure, roles and responsibilities;
- Selecting and managing performance of key players in the organization;
- Ensure that Managers and employees receive appropriate coaching, mentoring and training; and
- Regularly access the performance of the organization through Key Performance Indicators (e.g., new product output).
- Designs, maintains, and monitors a Technology Roadmap that is in line with Product Line Managers and Market Directors strategy. Monitors and assess the impact of technology and market trends in the field and make recommendations or take action accordingly.
- Supports Division Product Line Managers and Market Directors in development and execution of short and long term NPI plans for all market segments.
- Develops short-term and long-range strategies and policies aligned with organizational goals to achieve engineering objectives.
- Implements cost and quality improvement initiatives by using lean manufacturing, Kaizen, and Six Sigma tools in product design and materials development to prevent production problems, maximize product reliability and minimize cost and risk.
- Ensures best in class support to internal and external customers:
- Proactively support Operations with resolution of any technical issues that may arise in production, and incentives to improve yields, efficiencies and cost to meet product targets.
- Oversee technical communication with both existing and prospective suppliers to ensure technical aspects of the business are conducted in a fair and efficient manner.
- Support Marketing and Sales to ensure field personnel and customers receive accurate and timely design collateral and problem resolution guidance from the Engineering team when required.
- Ensures test and analysis facilities are well maintained, including documentation, and required capabilities are available to support NPD, failure analysis, and customer testing.
- Supports IATF 16949 and ISO9100 certifications efforts or any other certifications as required.
- Consults with outside consultants, vendors, agents, contractors, and other professional individuals on matters affecting product development and operations.
- Ensures proper maintenance of requisite engineering laboratory notebooks and confer with Legal Counsel on patent activity.
If you have the right experience along with the ability to work effectively with a globally distributed, multi-culture team we want to talk with you. The right candidate should have the following training and experience:
- Bachelor's Degree (B.S.) in Engineering. Advanced degree in Engineering or MBA desirable.
- Ten to fifteen (10-15) years of substantially progressive experience in the field of engineering management.
- Understanding of materials science, process improvement and engineering design associated with materials, electromechanical products and electronics.
- R&D, design, development and manufacturing experience in passive devices preferably fixed resistors, precision resistors, variable resistors & potentiometers.
- Strong project management skills are required to organize, prioritize and manage multiple projects through timely completion and be able to continually evaluate project status and make appropriate adjustments. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Kaizen and Six Sigma training.
This position is located at the Bourns 'corporate offices in Riverside, CA.
As a key member of the Engineering team, you will have an opportunity to grow with the company and advance based on your results, performance, and hard work. We offer a competitive salary, benefits and the ability to showcase your technical acumen. Please apply by e-mailing your resume, cover letter and salary requirement to our hiring office at: BournsHR.Riv@bourns.com
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