R&D Team Leader

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This position reports to

R&D Department Lead

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead a team of Research and Development (R&D) employees and support them in achieving the agreed R&D targets. Each day, you will coach and develop the team. You will also showcase your expertise by helping in managing technologies, platforms, and Intellectual Property. The work model for the role is: #LI-Onsite This role is contributing to the Electrification Distribution Solutions in San Luis Potosi. You will be mainly accountable for: • Serving as a technical resource for the team and providing technical support for internal and external contacts. • Act as technical lead for 11 engineers at 2 sites (SLP and MTY) • Conduct local PDAs, hiring, for SLP and MTY team • Act as technical lead of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) moving to global PLM • Responsible of enhancements of product according to Cost reduction, Sustainable materials and Better ways to produce. • Planning and ensuring an appropriate project portfolio for the team.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor degree at engineering areas; mechanical, electrical, electro-mechanical, mechatronic.
• 8+ years of experience done on Research & Development, Technology, Product, Design, Application Engineering areas.
• Experience on new products development, re-design, improvement of existing and/or customized products and manage PLM Systems
• 2 years of Team leadership experience
• Knowledge of power electrical equipment MCC and/or switchgear or combination & knowledge and understanding of UL, ANSI, and IEEE standards.
• Advance English level
• Strong electrical and electronic knowledge.

What's in it for you?

• Coaching and mentoring from senior leaders and colleagues
• Be yourself: join one or many of our Employee Resource Groups and make a difference!
• Get motivated by continuous improvement in what we do and how we do it, bring your know-how.

Benefits

• Paid and Unpaid leave opportunities
• Retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Accident insurance
• Wellbeing program
• Dental insurance
• Flex days
• Employee Assistance Program (PAE)
• Development platforms: Spark, Harvard Manager Mentor and English Learning EF English Live School (EF)

More about us

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