Product Development Director (EM25138)

Job # EM25138

Job Title Product Development Director

Office Location Houston, TX preferred

Business Function /Department Technology / Product Development

Sales Territory, if applicable

General Role Description

Define, develop, and manage the execution of the technology organization's product development plans to enable achievement of the Mid-Range Plan objectives

Role Accountabilities

- Design and staff an organizational structure that can effectively ensure successful product development execution

- Allocate resources within the context of the organization and the Company's strategic direction and economic health to ensure alignment with business unit and company priorities for project execution

- Diagnose gaps between the organization's current and desired project performance and deploy strategies to resolve

- Monitor and identify emerging technologies with potential for product development; recommend, develop, and implement appropriate strategies to develop these products

- Develop relationships with internal and external clients and suppliers, domestically and internationally, to secure resources and deliver effective solutions which meet client contractual commitments and business goals

- Ensure effective engineering and project management cost estimates for evaluations of potential new development projects

- Ensure commissioning processes and mechanisms for new products are designed to deliver commitments and continuously improve site operations, consulting with clients and BU engineers to confirm acceptance

- Ensure BU and client issues related to new product introductions are resolved, at client sites if necessary, coordinating with appropriate personnel, escalating as appropriate

- Provide Company and parent company executives with timely updates on project status

- Ensure compliance with health and safety policies, procedures, and good practice, through on-site review

General Employee Accountabilities

- Bring full effort to bear on tasks assigned by manager

- Give manager best advice

- Give earliest notice when work cannot be delivered as specified

- Cooperate and collaborate with peers and interact cross-organizationally as specified by manager

- Exemplify Company Core Values: Integrity, Client Focus, Team Orientation, and Personal Commitment

- Comply with all Company policies, practices, and procedures and all regulations and laws

- Recommend viable improvements proactively

- Ensure effective utilization of business tools and processes

Manager Accountabilities

- Build and lead a team of committed and capable employees

- Plan for, appropriately assign, resource, and integrate the work of the team

- Lead, expect, and implement continuous improvement

- Own the output of the team

- Ensure team members fulfill functional and general employee accountabilities

- Exercise effective managerial leadership to include

- Two-way managerial team working

- Fair and just treatment of direct reports

- Context setting

- Planning

- Task assignment

- Ongoing performance management

- Coaching

- Selection and orientation

- De-selection and dismissal

Manager-Once-Removed Accountabilities

- Ensure effective leadership and fair and just treatment for their direct reports once removed

- Ensure talent pool development at the direct report once removed level

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor of science degree in electrical, electronic, mechanical, computer engineering or related engineering or technical discipline, or equivalent via education and/or work experience

- 7 years of technical product development project leadership or technical management experience in any combination of power electronics and tools, and controls in an industry related to the Company's served industries

- Demonstrated success leading high-performance engineering teams in a technical, project-based metal, material handling, renewable energy systems, paper, or related general industries business

- Demonstrated successful working relationships with clients, suppliers, and other internal and external contacts

- Demonstrated successful and positive personal leadership, interpersonal, organizational, administrative, and communication skills

- Demonstrated continuous improvement in areas of responsibility

- Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and an ERP business system

- Demonstrated experience with patents and intellectual property matters

- Availability to travel domestically and internationally, approximately 15%, sometimes with limited notice

Preferred Qualifications

- MS or PhD degree in electrical, electronic, or mechanical engineering or related engineering or technical discipline

- Demonstrated experience with a foreign owned business , preferably Japanese

Link to TMEIC Corporation Americas website: https://www.tmeic.com/. To be considered an applicant for any available positions, individuals must complete an online job application for each posting. A resume may be attached to the online application but is not considered a substitute for the information in the application. Applications will be considered only for the specific position for which the application is submitted.

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