Team Lead, Systems Engineering

at  OTTO Motors by Rockwell Automation

Position: Team Lead, Systems Engineering
Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Experience: 7+ years of relevant work experience
Education: Degree/Diploma in a related field
Division: OTTO by Rockwell Automation

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Good planner (e.g. work planning, project planning)
• Good listener (i.e. open to receiving feedback and implementing improvements accordingly)
• Keen eye for detail (e.g. reviewer/editor of SE designs and deliverables)
• Strong facilitator (e.g. team improvement initiatives, solution decision making, etc.)
• Good negotiator (e.g. resolving priority conflicts, managing ‘extra’ resource demands, etc.)
• Effective decision making (e.g. helping to resolve design and/or implementation challenges for projects)
• Good communicator (e.g. editor of SE written communications, customer interactions, reporting on SE team performance, investment pitches, etc.)
• Visionary (contributing to growth strategy, such as integrator enablement, proactive system design investments, strategies for working with ‘key’ accounts, etc.)
• Technical acuity (e.g. ideas contributor to implementation strategies, product features requirements, advanced toolkit, etc.)
• System design skills (technical writing, diagram creation, system analysis (via simulation), etc.)
• Systems integration skills (planning and execution of integration work, working with PMs to identify dependencies and impact to schedule)
• Ability to recognize talent (recruiting) and need for improvement

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Contributing to and reviewing/approving the systems architecture, design, and operations of our projects,
• Ensuring quality of service and deliverables from the SE team,
• Achievement of the SE department goals,
• Adapting and improving the overall SE service and performance,
• Coaching and developing the SE team members, and
• Work planning, workload balancing and capacity planning
• Facilitate design reviews and safety risk assessments

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborating with sales and applications engineering during the pre-order phases of planning and solution development to setup post-order activities for success;
• Complementing and backfilling for the SE Team such as
• developing solution evaluation matrices,
• overseeing vendor interactions in collaboration with the payload designs,
• risk assessments and risk mitigation planning,
• task prioritization decisions,
• product feature prioritization decisions, and
• developing system performance metrics, measurement methods, and test plans;
• Reviewing designs, SOWs to improve quality and reviewing test/experiment results to extract additional insights;
• Coordinating and collaborating with product management to define market and product technical requirements (to support the client needs);
• Facilitating and managing relationships with technology partners and subcontractors;
• Injecting creative solutions to execution plans, such as leveraging partners, subcontractors, or other groups within OTTO Motors; and
• Reviewing and directly contributing to the technical elements of contract development, drafting and review.
• Travel to customer site to lead and support project deployment and integration work as needed (~20% - 30%)