Job Purpose: Manages the daily operations of a RD&T Engineering group, supervises employees, and implements engineering strategies to ensure sound engineering procedures and customer satisfaction, and to achieve growth and excellence in design and manufacture of products to meet the challenges of an ever-changing environment.Responsibilities: Leads and manage the RD&T team to achieve the global business target of the company.Manages team capability and capacity including assignments, training, leave management, and continuous performance review program to ensure effectiveness, compliance, and equity within the organization.Manage the assigned product and technology development projects to ensure and contribute to a commercially successful product launch.Develops and secures company intellectual property and technical content (white papers, tech briefs) through documentation, disclosure filings and training.Develop and execute the design process, material costing & quoting, analysis and scheduling for mechanical parts design and fabrication.Evaluates departmental & personnel performance, make recommendations, implement improvement plan, and direct engineers in their professional developmentResponsible for the team budgets and monitors the monthly results of the team and expenses, compliance and participation in all Smiths Interconnect’s EHS programs, policies, procedures and training requirementsSuggests and supports changes to systems, tools and processes to optimize overall business performance.Provide proposals to broaden and/or deepen core competencies biased towards top-line growth.Works with Operations to implement manufacturing process into new design, technology and product development.  Assures new designs are manufacturable to meet business needs.Collaborates with Sales, Marketing and Operations on product lifecycle management and is final decision maker for changes to existing product design.Collaborates with Sales and Marketing to assists with technical content provided to the customer.  This includes, but is not limited to, literature requests, data drawings, mounting procedures, application information and bid support for new design opportunities.Collaborates with shared services to improve organizational efficiencies and expand capabilities.
