Product Engineering Manager

Job DescriptionLeadership Responsibilities:Develop and implement the operational priorities for Product Engineering and Customs teams.Inspire Product Engineering employee performance and development by ensuring they understand expectations, receive regular and ongoing feedback, coaching, and training, and are held accountable for meeting or exceeding defined expectations.Prepare prescribed departmental plans (budgets, forecasts, ad hoc), while managing and controlling departmental expenses to those plans with consideration for current and future economic circumstances.Speciific Role ResponsibilitiesProvide product engineering services that support industry standard setting designs, product quality, and speed of development.New ProductLead the New Product process ensuring a continuous flow of product release to manufacturing throughout the year.Lead design inquiry including original research and user research incorporating critical design thinking.Develop unique lighting solutions with pragmatic wisdom that may incorporate new technology and materials.Review existing products and identify cost saving components and design strategies.Provide to the design team, design engineering services, and innovated solutions to design complexities. The chosen solutions must balance with manufacturability needs in production.Manage the accurate translation of design drafts into production ready engineered products and related drawing packages according to established timelines.Existing Product & Continuous ImprovementLead engineering services to ensure the overall integrity of the changes made via the RFC process.As the leader of the New Product Team, manage the product redesign process, maintaining compliance, design intent, manufacturability, product quality, and the cost structure of each product.Manage engineering support for custom products, with the goal of maintaining profitability and meeting customer requests consistent with the Company?s offerings.Manage engineering support for continuous improvement and process engineering projects.Product Engineering Systems & ComplianceDevelop and implement engineering standards and drawing services that maintain constructability of the products offered to the market, including revision control; while minimizing overall costs.Ensure that the product drawings and artifacts are maintained and stored in a secure way to guarantee the continued operation of the Company.Ensure that the Company?s deployment of engineering systems meets the agreed upon needs of the business.Manage product compliance as required by the Company?s served markets in a cost effective and time efficient manner.Advanced EngineeringManage the development of forward looking technologies to support product and process optimization.Manage the exploration and sourcing of new technologies for product offerings, providing the technical support and knowledge necessary to allow the design and supply chain teams to continually improve and innovate product designs consistent with market demand, industry regulation, and customer requirements.New Product Component SourcingProvide new product sourcing services, developing potential new components with new or existing vendors.Work in partnership with Supply Chain team, providing relevant and cost effective first purchase components for new and modified products.