Director-Engineering-Heavy Duty-Light Truck Industry at Greenlight Professional Services
Detroit, MI
About the Job
This management position, Director-Engineering, is responsible for planning, managing, and leadership of the multi-disciplined product engineering. Key responsibilities include: developing business and technology roadmaps that will lead to sustainable profitable growth, interfacing with shared services within the organization, and contributing to the overall financial performance of the business unit.
- Department leader for heavy-duty and light/medium duty diagnostics scan tools and supporting systems and infrastructure.
- Leadership role in management of business including the overall financial performance and long-term strategy.
- Lead a variety of hardware/firmware, Windows desktop applications, Android & Linux embedded applications, and Microsoft web-based services engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Develop key members of the team – job skill improvement, career development, and succession planning
- Develop engineering long range strategy, including management of quality, technical debt, and technical stack.
- Manage engineering processes and projects for products, manufacturing, distribution, and support.
- Collaborate on the end of life product strategies related to product and systems development.
- Manage and enhance key metrics to manage the performance of the engineering teams.
- Collaborate with other Divisions to execute product, support, and financial goals.
- Oversee/sponsor Rapid Continuous Improvements (i.e. Lean Initiatives) within areas of responsibility to drive cost out and improve the overall productivity and quality output of the team.
- Develop and manage the annual budget for engineering.
- Meet the financial/growth commitments set by the business unit strategic plan.