Engineer II

Job Overview

This position will focus is on coordinating and leading all or most activities on comprehensive and technically challenging projects/assignments.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understands projects/assignments from a corporate standpoint.
• In-depth understanding of the business (ex. customer/market segment) and opportunities in each.
• Incorporates customer perspective when developing solutions.
• Understands concepts of corporate identity and business needs as applied to projects/assignments
• Projects/assignments are more complex.  Involve multiple variables, greater responsibility, and cross-functional integration.
• Analyze and develop complex processes.
• Fully develop multiple concepts relating to satisfying a customer need, and support all viable solutions to arrive at an optimum solution for customers and the corporation.
• Able to solve complex problems with practical solutions.
• Take lead role in developing project/assignment plans involving internal and external resources.
• Capable of leading cross-functional teams having broader less defined initial objective and scope.
• Manage and direct project/assignment teams involved in multiple, concurrent and sequential development activities.
• Assign and direct project/assignment personnel to best utilize/develop their skills.
• Analyze and recommend engineering or design solutions (Root cause analysis, DOE and other appropriate techniques) to product, process, design, or other technical issues.
• Evaluate impact of proposed product/process changes on other products, materials, strategies, or other technical issues.
• Able to develop and evaluate complex designs or concepts for which initial inputs are limited.  Responsibilities encompass project/assignment initiation through ramp up and post audit.
• Approve documentation completed by others.
• Accountable for all documentation requirements for a functional area
• Coordinate resolution of customer service issues.
• Participate in activities such as home shows, visitor events etc. to demonstrate products and lead related discussions.
• Work with suppliers, specifying and monitoring progress on complex issues.
• Develop and present reports summarizing technical analysis and business case to peer group and management audiences.
• Assigns tasks to appropriate team member, including peers.
• Provide training and assistance on a full range of technical issues to lower level staff on a team and evaluate team member technical skills.
• Act as “in-charge” lead on large group assignments or in temporary absence of project manager.
• Participate in activities such as interviewing job applicants, providing input to performance evaluations, etc.
• Serve as key mentor to less experienced technical employees.
• Provide technical backup in the absence of supervisor/manager of functional area.
• Works independently on most aspects of work.
• Receives general direction with occasional work review on other aspects.
• Works within guidelines established by general practice, precedents and policies.
• Review of work occurs after the fact.
• Has considerable latitude in deciding how to accomplish assignments.
• Effective communications with all levels of internal and external customers and staff.
• Approves tasks of peers on project/assignment teams.
• Coordinate project/assignment efforts concerning specific parts or assemblies across several technical areas.
• Independent presentations to upper management.
• Independent communication with business partners to resolve technical issues and negotiate items such as priorities and completion deadlines.

QUALIFICATION AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• 4-year Engineering degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Has considerable versatility in applying specialized technical knowledge in a wide variety of situations.
• Possesses knowledge across a wide variety of technologies.
• Knowledge demonstrates mastery in several technical areas of expertise.
• Possesses unique or specific knowledge that is frequently sought out by others.
• Strong understanding of the interrelationship that needs to exist between functional areas the business.
• Well-developed project management skills.