Summary

Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintains customer relationships and serves as the key contact person with the customer for engineering issues and requirements
• Leads and coordinates safe launch plans to ensure customer expectations and support tasks are achieved.
• Lead and manage a team of electrical/ system engineers to complete the following tasks on time.
• Define and negotiate engineering requirements with the customer.
• Gain in-depth understanding of customer requirements/requests to give clear and concise instructions to the core engineering team in Japan.
• Perform electrical system bench/ vehicle tests and provide analysis on issues found.
• Work out solutions to engineering issues with the core engineering team in Japan and provide 5-phase report to the customer.
• Determine software calibration values released to the customer.
• Create validation test plans for environmental and EMC tests to obtain approval from the customer.
• Provide engineering support to obtain new business during customer sourcing process.
• Provide engineering support for F-Ten manufacturing plants and customer plants during product launch phase.
• Provides technical leadership over the team and development activities
• Manages and facilitates issues, processes, and activities within and across department functions
• Create, implement, and improve current processes in place and add new ones as needed
• Propose budget and staffing plan to upper management and hire/train necessary human resources to build a strong team to support current programs and future business expansion.
• Mentor and train the team during development on issue investigation and analysis, keep team up to date with technology
• Work with production facilities and help them resolve issues
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Management and Leadership skills expected
• Task allocation
• Performance reviews
• Team mentoring and team building
• Team and product management
• Budget and mid-term planning
• Tactical and strategic planning
• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical field
• Minimum 5 years of experience in developing automotive electronics at a Tier 1 supplier for OEMs.
• Familiarity with automotive (OEM) specifications
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills (Good presentation skills)
• Ability to effectively operate and communicate in a multi-cultural environment
• Excellent organization and prioritization skills
• Experience in maintaining a quality system compliant with QS-9000 or TS 16949
• Experience with MOST is strongly preferred.
• Ability to speak Japanese is preferred but not required