R&D Manager - Product / System Development

at  Innomotics GmbH

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R&D Manager of the Product/System Development department reporting to the Director of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). The System Development Manager is a vital role at Innomotics LLC and has a significant impact on the direction of new technologies and our business.
Strategically this person leads conceptualizing, crafting and defining test criteria for new medium voltage drive product platforms, specifically the cascaded H-bridge topologies. Additionally, they work multi-functionally within the global organization in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Tactically this person is the day-to-day manager of the department and is responsible in leading the planning and the development of all project work within the department.
This role is based in our New Kensington, PA facility, and will work a hybrid schedule (1-3 days onsite). Open to relocating the right candidate.

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day management of a 10–15-person product development team that includes electrical and mechanical engineers.
• Monitors and proactively mitigates risks and issues through all phases of the product development lifecycle to ensure quality and timely delivery innovative systems.
• Collaborates with Product Management to define a product roadmap that enables achievement of business goals in an efficient and low risk manner.
• Globally performs an architecture strategy to build a new generation of the product platform for Innomotics medium voltage drives.
• Enjoys working on exciting and sophisticated projects while balancing deadlines, budget, and scope requirements.
• Driving constant improvement based on critical metrics tied to business performance levers.
• Interacting with staff in their professional development.
• Work with multi-functional groups that include (but not limited to) power electronics, SW development, product compliance, applications engineering, manufacturing, type testing, and drafting.
• Develop new design methods, processes or changes in design to improve manufacturing efficiency at factories or sub-vendors.
• Strong technical leadership, documentation, project management, and writing skills.