R&D Director

This position will give you the opportunity to provide leadership to a multi-disciplinary R&D team working to develop new products and solutions.

You will be responsible for the engineering, design and delivery of multiple R&D projects, while also executing front end research projects and providing sustaining support for products in production.

In this role you will:

- Invest in developing and strengthening an experienced R&D team to continually become more efficient at New Product Development.

- Partner with product management to bring forward new product concepts that align to customer problems and provide focus to the new product development teams.

- Work with subject matter experts to estimate project and product costs, track and manage changes throughout product development to ensure final product meets customer needs as well as internal targets for manufacturability, quality, and cost.

- Execute product cost reduction programs, VAVE (Value Analysis / Value Engineering), in collaboration with a cross-functional team.

- Execute special research activities which will lead to significant contribution to product development.

- Partner with cross-functional team to prioritize sustaining workload and provide clear priorities to the team.

- Provide accurate and timely communication of issues, risks, and corrective actions related to projects.

- Solve technical problems, by evaluating systems and or processes to determine root cause and implement corrective actions as required.

Qualifications:

- Master´s or Bachelor’s degree in engineering or physical science with demonstrated experience in innovation.

- Minimum of 7 years of experience in engineering and a minimum of 5 years of experience in engineering leadership.

- Broad understanding of products and processes, including design, manufacturing, and market use of products.

- Understanding and ability to leverage tools such as Problem Solving, Daily Management, and Visual Project Management.

- Leadership skills, knowledge of effective team building approaches, team dynamics and conflict resolution.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- A passion for people management, ability to motivate people to develop high performing teams.