Product Development Engineering Manager

2 months ago


Pleasant Prairie, United States Spectrum Plastics Group, A DuPont Business Full time

Description:

Provides day-to-day coaching, direction, and accountability to develop and maintain an aligned, motivated, and results-oriented engineering team focused on new product development. Oversees all new product development projects from idea conception through transfer to commercial manufacturing. Drives technological improvement activities and process improvement activities.

The ideal candidate for this role is a technical leader with a proven track record of maximizing the business impact of teams, investing in developing talent, and jumping in with a hands-on approach to drive new product and process excellence.


ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

  • Discover and explore new business opportunities, unmet customer/market needs, and technology opportunities to fill the pipeline.
  • Effectively lead cross-functional teams throughout product development lifecycle.
  • Support the commercial teams by providing customer support as the go-to technical leader for films in medical device, food, and industrial applications.
  • Lead and execute customer-specific projects by aligning and delivering on expectations for timelines, scope, and costs.
  • Define and manage project activities for commercial release of new products and corresponding manufacturing processes while meeting expectations for sustainable, efficient, repeatable, and reproducible manufacturing operations.
  • Translate customer needs into quantifiable CTQs that can be used to scope projects, report progress to targets, and create actionable plans to meet customer requirements.
  • Develop verification and validation plans including the protocols, test methods, and reports for execution of design verification and validation testing.
  • Collaborate with site operations leadership to identify and resolve technical systemic challenges and support commercial solutions.
  • Drive capital investments including resourcing, budgeting, and execution of capital projects.
  • Apply risk management best practices to the development process by identifying hazards, estimating and evaluating associated risks, controlling these risks, and monitoring the effectiveness of risk controls.
  • Collaborate and communicate effectively in a cross functional organization. Use strong presentation skills to present technical information to audiences with diverse backgrounds and connect technical concepts to business outcomes.


Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience in a related field
  • 5+ years industry experience in polymer extrusion and converting
  • 4+ years in leadership roles
  • Demonstrated ability applying tools within Project Management, Design of Experiment, Design for Lean Six Sigma and Statistical Analysis
  • Track record of being resourceful and innovative to pull together the tools, equipment, and resources, to drive projects across the finish line
  • Experience as project manager on projects that involved all phases of product design and development, leading cross-functional teams through the execution of project activities
  • Demonstrates success developing full-scale project plans
  • Effectively communicates project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
  • Experience managing financial responsibilities for major programs, such as budget accountability and revenue recognition
  • Demonstrated ability to problem solve, identify errors and deficiencies, and perform research


Preferred:

  • Master’s Degree in Engineering discipline
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Project
  • Demonstrated ability to complete product design transfers
  • High degree of understanding of ISO 13485 requirements for Design Controls
  • Knowledge of applicable standards for EtO sterilization (e.g. ANSI/AAMI/ISO 11135-1, ANSI/AAMI/ISO 11135-2)


WORKING CONDITIONS:

Works with minimal supervision from manager. Requires light physical activity performing non-strenuous daily activities



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