Engineering Manager Airways Sustaining in England

Lead the Airways Sustaining team in the aspect of people process and projects to ensure high quality team output and to act as a technical authority in all areas of Airways products and to directly lead certain sustaining projects and engineering activities. The position is a member of Airways R&D management team and reports to the R&D Director.

Responsibilities

• Act as a recognized authority in Airways sustaining engineering.
• Perform engineering work requiring recognized expertise in all aspects of Airways sustaining engineering.
• Explore and recommend innovative creative and complex technology solutions to solve problems in the Airways products.
• Provide technical guidance and direction using knowledge and skill in Mechanical engineering design, molding extrusions materials and mold tooling.
• Work with all stakeholders, vendors and internal departments to resolve department issues and contribute toward project and organizational objectives.
• Make Airways sustaining engineering team plans and schedules allocating resources and stimulating individuals performance and team cooperation and maintain team metrics and continuously improve.
• Commitment to maintain awareness of new scientific knowledge/technology in relevant fields and ensure regulatory compliance for all products.
• Ensure compliance of company procedures and all applicable laws regulations and standards good business practices and company documented procedures.
• Engage others promote and participate in Environmental Health and Safety initiatives focusing on continuous improvement.
• Other duties as assigned by manager.

Direction of others

• As a people manager this role may typically be required to perform tasks like administrative duties organizing employee schedules monitoring and evaluating employee performance and leading team members.
• Managers may also be responsible for collaborating and developing improvement plans monitoring progress and delegating employee assignments.
• Additional responsibilities can include managing project teams to develop execute and complete assignments; organizing team roles and evaluating employee performance; documenting operational tasks and reporting to higher-level management; performing employee performance reviews and assessments; and assisting with new employee onboarding and training.

Education Required

• University Degree (BA degree) required or equivalent experience.

Technical Knowledge and Skills

• Bachelor degree or above is a must or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 10 years post graduate experience in Mechanical development.
• Possesses and applies an expertise in Mechanical product development as well as competency in related specialty fields.
• Ability to manage projects of significant scope and impact.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are required.
• Ability to lead and guide project team members in troubleshooting and carrying out significant project phases.
• Expert knowledge and skill in sustaining documentation procedures development methods and project management.
• Expert knowledge and skill in Mechanical engineering design and ideally background in molding and or extrusions materials mold tooling.
• Knowledge of SOPs FDA/ISO 9001/ISO13485/FDA 510K etc. principles and skill in integrating into hardware product development discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize creativity foresight and mature judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented problems.

Abilities

• Strong analytical problem-solving and decision making skills.
• Strong Mechanical/Biomed engineering/ plastic molding background.
• Ability to lead and guide team members.
• Ability to Coach and Mentor team members.
• Proactive cooperative and good communication skill.
• Fluent in English written and verbal.

Impact and Scope

• Safety supply management decision making and problem solving.

Key Internal and External Relationships

• Cooperation with operations Marketing Clinical quality sales other Engineering leads and Engineers Engineering Directors and VPs and service team.
• Communication and cooperation with headquarter related departments as well as suppliers.

Work Environment

• This is largely an Ashford office based position 2-3 days per week and the rest working from home.
• This role reports to the R&D Director.
• Typically requires travel less than 10% of the time internationally.

Required Experience

• Manager.

Key Skills

• Hospitality Experience.
• Management Experience.
• React.
• Redux.
• Node.js.
• AWS.
• Mechanical Engineering.
• Team Management.
• Leadership Experience.
• Mentoring.
• Distributed Systems.

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1