Job Summary: 

• Be a technical leader within the company.
• Formulates and implements research and development programs, policies, and procedures required to support profitable growth.
• Provides leadership to design/development teams to keep focus.
• Provides design/development teams with appropriate resources to perform assigned tasks.
• Interfaces with appropriate internal and external resources to ensure intellectual property is appropriately protected.
• Interfaces with appropriate internal and external resources (regulatory, customers, etc.) to ensure development programs meet regulatory and customer requirements.
• Obtains capital resources to meet company goals.
• Provides technical assistance for diagnosing design and manufacturing quality problems.
• Keeps senior management team informed of design/development progress and issues.
• Guides development and documentation of test plan protocols, standard operating procedures, specifications and test procedures.
• Develops departmental budget estimates.
• Contributes to business unit and divisional strategy planning.
• Participates in review boards for intellectual property, CAPA, complaints, business unit planning, and others.
• Reviews and provides functional approval for project and quality system documentation.
• Hires and develops employees, as well as manages performance, to achieve functional excellence.

Skills on Resume:

• Leadership (Soft Skills)
• R&D Management (Hard Skills)
• Resource Allocation (Soft Skills)
• IP Protection (Hard Skills)
• Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)
• Budgeting (Hard Skills)
• Quality Control (Hard Skills)
• Team Development (Soft Skills)

Job Summary: 

• Develops and communicates the Engineering vision to drive world-class excellence and innovative product development.
• Establishes clear objectives and metrics and ensures systems, tools and communication mechanisms are in place to hold the team accountable to culture, CORE, strategy and performance metrics.
• Ensures strategies, goals and objectives are clear, understood, aligned and executed within the Engineering function and are aligned to the overall company strategy.
• Directs activities of engineering staff to successfully drive the development of new products and modifications for existing products.
• Ensures that developed products are fully and correctly defined, developed, tested, documented, and transitioned into production.
• Ensures that current projects are completed on schedule, and within budget, meet customers’ requirements for performance and quality, and achieve revenue goals.
• Anticipates challenges and opportunities and presents well-thought-out solutions aligned with corporate strategy.
• Drives improvement in approach to collaboration across Project Management, Engineering, Product Management and Supply Chain Operations teams, identifying critical customer requirements and milestones.
• Evaluates new product concepts from an end-user perspective and assesses feasibility as an engineered product in collaboration with Product Management and Sales.
• Collaborates with Product Management to define the multi-year Product Roadmap that will keep Vitamix in a product leadership position.
• Achieves the appropriate balance between research and design activities to ensure a pipeline of defined and proven technological advancements, product derivatives, components, and new product introductions.
• Drives continuous improvement within Engineering to increase departmental effectiveness and efficiency, establishing an environment that encourages creativity and value generation.
• Interface with all levels of management to resolve problems and issues that have reached critical levels regarding design, quality, etc.

Skills on Resume:

• Vision Development (Soft Skills)
• Performance Metrics (Hard Skills)
• Strategic Alignment (Soft Skills)
• Product Development (Hard Skills)
• Project Management (Hard Skills)
• Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
• Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Continuous Improvement (Soft Skills) 

Job Summary: 

• Works with other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives related to business needs.
• Research new device automation technologies that drive innovation and support corporate product roadmap.
• Take an active role in identifying key engineering processes and implement operating standards that drive consistency and organizational improvements across the department
• Lead development and successful execution of the company’s long-term capital plan related to manufacturing and automation investments.
• Personally lead, drive and manage capital projects from ideation to implementation, on time to budget.
• Provide leadership, guiding teams to explore new approaches to challenging technical issues.
• Build a high-performing engineering team that is strong in technology innovation and continuous improvement.
• Foster strong partnerships with Research and Development, and Operations
• Ensure effective transfer of new technologies from development into manufacturing.
• Work with staff to develop strategic plans, identifying improvement opportunities (quality and/or cost) and staff resources to deliver on strategic objectives.
• Mentor and develop employees regarding technical skills, supervisory capabilities and functional effectiveness.

Skills on Resume:

• Strategic Planning (Soft Skills)
• Technology Innovation (Hard Skills)
• Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
• Capital Project Management (Hard Skills)
• Leadership (Soft Skills)
• Team Building (Soft Skills)
• Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Employee Development (Soft Skills)