Manager, Electrical Hardware Engineering

Overview:

The Electrical Hardware Engineering Manager is responsible for the successful execution of hardware development for innovative, leading edge medical diagnostics technologies involving diverse clients and applications.

This role blends management and technical contribution skill sets into an exciting career opportunity.

The ideal candidate will manage a small team of hardware engineers and technicians while providing technical knowledge and engineering design services to a variety of client projects.

Responsibilities:


* Lead and manage an electrical hardware development team of 5 to 8 people



* Develop and utilize talents of personnel to accomplish company goals


* Review job performance of the development team personnel


* Ensure promotion, transfers, terminations, and compensation changes are acted upon where warranted


* Ensure effective communication with other functions and departments to obtain all cooperation and support required for the success of assigned programs

Provide technical leadership over complex, major design & development projects

Design, implement and deliver high quality, robust embedded electrical designs for the business

Create, maintain, and review technical documents and reports including performance specifications, electrical designs, schematics and drawings

Drive electrical requirements with other members of the engineering team as appropriate and proactively work to integrate with system requirements

Plan, lead, or conduct experiments to evaluate operating characteristics of breadboards, prototypes, or products, and then translate experimental results into design criteria

Specify the design of cables and cable harness assemblies

Utilize electronic design tools such as schematic capture and PCB layout to design PCBAs

Engage with service bureaus and suppliers on PCB layout, fabrication and assembly

Ensure component reliability based on technical evaluation of suppliers' specifications and designs

Utilize electrical engineering best practices including Design-for-Manufacturing (DFM) and Design-for-Test (DFT)

Work cooperatively across all engineering disciplines, such as software, systems, electrical, and mechanical, as well as non-engineering team members, such as Project management, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Support, to deliver projects on-time and on budget

Prepare project requests detailing proposed engineering work costs and product timetable

Be responsible for application engineering support to customers, and assist in troubleshooting customer application problems

Provide technical presentation support and consultation to marketing

Represent the company in customer communications

Required Qualifications:


* Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline (Master's degree is preferred) with at least 10 years of experience in electrical engineering and electronic design and development


* Diversified knowle...