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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