Engineering- Team Leader

 ENGINEERING TEAM LEADER- LIGHTING

Location – Pittsburgh, PA (Ideal), Remote (for the right candidate)- Lighting experience

Purpose:
•    Lead our North American engineering efforts as a player-coach
•    Set the standard for customer service with our specifiers; ensuring that all of their needs are taken care of from an engineering standpoint, whether the project is custom or off the shelf
•    Drive innovation within North American and support innovation through our German and international sales teams
•    Build successful relationships with our network of sales partners, supporting them to deliver quality, highly engineered solutions
•    Apply your experience and talent to develop, mentor, support, and inspire your team to achieve objectives, deliver a superior level of service and ensure they are the entrepreneurial force behind our global brand.

Specific key outcomes:
1. Ensure that we are the “easiest” high end brand to do business with
2. Drive innovation and quality in all that we do; from simple product modifications to customized lighting applications.

 

Responsibilities:
•    Work with the leadership team to drive key Annual Plan initiatives and projects as either an Interested Party, a Team member or Stakeholder.
•    Providing professional answers, solutions and training to internal and to external customers involving installation Support, Commissioning, Product Modifications, Support of custom projects in the quotation and implementation stages.
o    Specific to the Lighting Industry: produce lighting layouts, design documents, and application drawings. 
•    Represent  North America to the global R and D team, ensuring alignment between activities and North American product and compliance requirements and global requirements
•    Facilitate the on-time and cost-effective launch of new products & services into the North American marketplace.
•    Work with all appropriate compliance organizations to ensure  products meet all applicable regulations.
•    Support the business to achieve each year’s fiscal goals including Sales and Margin maximization, Expense Management and to exceed budgeted EBIT.
•    Build strong relationships with Sales Partners, ensuring their teams are conversant with our products and can deliver accurate brand and product representation. 
•    Create and effectively manage the Engineering budget.
•    Ensure specification sheets align with North American specifier needs.
•    Support internal production team and external supply chain to ensure products and components meet specifications and are “fit for purpose”.
•    Collaborate with inside sales and marketing to launch products and projects to the North American audience and support our agent and distributor partners.
•    Lead by example, support and motivate our broader team in a drive for excellence.
•    Contribute to the management and direction of the business.
•    Understand, promote and work within all company policies.

Qualifications:
•    Bachelor’s degree preferred, ideally in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or similar
•    Supportive ‘hands-on’ leader, able to harness individual talents, and inspire a clear sense of direction.
•    Excellent communication skills and a desire to serve customers – able to engage and work with people from diverse backgrounds across multiple teams.
•    Able to think strategically, seek continuous improvement, and contribute at a senior level.
•    Strong ability to solve problems, offer solutions and make decisions.
•    Able to think creatively and innovatively.
•    Excellent attention to detail and uncompromising approach to quality.
•    Well-developed organizational and time management skills, with a result focus.
•    SolidWorks experience required
•    AGI32 or Dialux experience preferred

       SOLID WORKS
Experience:
•    Significant prior experience in a senior engineering role, ideally within the lighting industry.  
•    Strong preference for experience with engineered solutions involving customer service
•    Strong technical product aptitude, ideally of lighting, electrical and associated control systems.

Travel requirements:
•    Monthly opportunities to travel to trade shows throughout North America.
•    Ability to travel on short notice occasionally to support installations or customer issues
•    Overseas trips once or twice a year.

Personal qualities:
•    Inclusive, supportive, empathetic style with the ability to win trust and credibility quickly
•    Relationship builder
•    Positive, energetic and motivated
•    Creative and analytical
•    High degree of ownership, self-initiative and follow through