Job title: Engineering- Team Leader
Company: Top Dog Recruiting
Job description: Engineering — Team Leader #2 position in USASalary : $100,000.- $ 140,000.00 + BonusSupervise – Team of 3-4ENGINEERING TEAM LEADER- LIGHTINGLocation – Pittsburgh, PA (Ideal), Remote (for the right candidate)- Lighting experiencePurpose:
- 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
Expected salary: $100000 – 140000 per year
Location: Warrendale, PA
Job date: Sun, 11 May 2025 06:16:51 GMT
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