Celestica is seeking a highly accomplished Director of Engineering to lead the development of market-focused solutions and strategic customer engagements in Smart Energy. This role involves driving market expansion, engaging with customers, and leading engineering design services to deliver impactful solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Driving market expansion and identifying revenue growth opportunities through engineering & technology led initiatives
- Develops short- and long-term goals and identifies target customers
- Identifies the organization's strengths as well as those of the competitors
- Directs engineering design services from customer requirements through product obsolescence
- Leads end-to-end engineering solution delivery, encompassing all service offerings: complex product development, commercialization, VAVE, new product introduction, and optimized manufacturing process
- Works with potential customers to help define their needs and to present technical proposals to meet those needs
- Ensures proposals meet requirements for design profitability, manufacturing profitability, supply chain etc
- Directs all of the engineering activities for the segment, product & capability development and customer engagements
- Defines the technology vision and develops the team's capabilities and the annual business plan
- Interfaces with global design centers to develop complementary services and coordinate capabilities worldwide
Requirements:
- Over fifteen years of in-depth experience in leading the development and market launch of high-risk, mission-critical, complex electro-mechanical product architectures (ideally depth in power systems)
- Demonstrated expertise in communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution in both the technical and commercial domains
- At least five years of track record in customer management leadership roles
- Extensive knowledge of high-reliability product development processes, lean manufacturing processes, and optimal supply chain management
- Ability to think strategically while being able to deep-dive into day-to-day technical and operational issues as needed
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to challenge assumptions and make decisions even with limited information
- Demonstrated ability to plan and achieve financial performance objectives in both revenue and profit
- Strong interpersonal skills coupled with the ability to effectively orchestrate high-stakes developments across a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders
- An effective leader, mentor, and motivator capable of inspiring a diverse group of employees and driving high performance in a direct management role and in a matrix organization
- Fifteen plus (15+) years' relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in STEM field
- An advanced technical degree is a plus
- Advanced studies in Business/Operations are a plus