Engineering Product Line Manager - Safran Group : Job Details

It is viewed as a team effort to bring new products to the marketplace and this activity is a crucial element from the leadership perspective. The responsibilities of this position primarily are focused on organizing and leading the engineering personnel in project efforts for conceptualizing, designing, developing, testing and supporting AVOX products. Project leadership of advanced engineering projects is also a major responsibility. Providing technical responses to customer inquiries is done as a part of their business development role in conjunction with sales management. Coordination of research and development projects is also a part of this position's activities.

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

1) Direct engineering disciplines and project activities.

2) Participate in regular engineering management activities.

3) Develop and support the product strategy for the product line and coordinate this with the appropriate business interface personnel.

4) Prepare project justifications including planning, coordination and management.

5) Provide resource allocation and management through budgeting activities.

6) Initiate requisitions for material, equipment, or production engineering.

7) Assist in the transition of new products into production.

8) Work with the engineering services organization to determine services staffing levels.

9) Support the engineering services organization in the execution of qualification and certification programs.

10) Interface with the customer to provide all AVOX technical information as required by the customer, and attend customer meetings as needed.

11) Support the Certification/Compliance Director, in meeting the AVOX compliance and certification strategy.

Listed above are the ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS of this job classification. Employees in this job classification may be required to perform various other duties including but not limited to training, administration, and housekeeping. In addition, employees in this job classification are responsible for the quality, quantity and timeliness of the product or service they provide. They will carry out those duties, in a safe and cooperative manner, per established policies, practices and procedures. Management reserves the right to add, modify, change or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job.