Engineering Sr Manager - Product & Systems

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SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER
SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN – WORLD HEADQUARTERS

As part of the Americas JIT Engineering team, you will be managing shared resources within the JIT product engineering team with an emphasis on active involvement in technical leadership In addition you will coordinate training and development of product guidelines for use by the global engineering community. Specific focus given to robustness of engineering development, efficiency of design as well as execution and adoption of lean engineering principles. 

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage shared technical support resources across the product engineering group
• Develop technical skills within through training and deployment robust problem-solving techniques and design principles
• Ensure the capture of re-occurrence and Lear knowledge items into guidelines and checklists.
• To provide coaching and training on processes, requirements and technologies as required.
• To act as a technical representative in the region and reinforce knowledge transfer and global SME network / processes.
• Drive design by analysis and product specification.  Where necessary provide access to technical benchmarking team.
• Actively support the use and development of A3/BEP documentation and principles.
• Support design reviews as required.
• To develop, maintain and release design guidelines.
• To develop, maintain and release checklists for commodities.
• Support and concur checklist audit submissions for SME scorecard.
• Assist with development and maintenance of foundation DFMEA’s.

HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Comply with all relevant HSE legislation and local policies and procedures.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Mature and professional approach committed to meeting deadlines.
• Professional and confident approach / ownership of tasks
• Ability to work under pressure
• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly developed planning and organizational skills
• Flexible approach
• Team player
• Self-motivated and proactive approach

KEY SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Required Technical Skills

• Effective use of Microsoft products (excel, power point, word)
• Robust problem-solving experience
• Demonstrable technical expertise and knowledge of seating design with an emphasis on JIT features
• Analytical approach to product design.

Preferred Technical Skills

• Training and presentation skills.
• Generation of technical guidelines or standards.
• Systems and process development experience.

Required Education Qualifications

• Science or engineering related degree. Alternatively, significant demonstrable seating or related product technical expertise.
• Minimum 15 years of work experience in seat product engineering or related field

Preferred Education Qualifications

• Advanced Science or engineering related degree
• Training in robust problem solving
• Previous leadership experience

OTHER INFORMATION

Flexibility in working hours and potential for travel as required.

Lear Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse workplace.

Applicants must submit their resume for consideration using our applicant tracking system. Due to the high volume of applications received, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship. Unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies, or similar, will not be paid a fee and will become the property of Lear Corporation.