Job Description

Position Summary

·         Lead and develop Engineering team, recruit talents, provide advisement and guiding, streamline engineering process and system, optimize resources, collaborate with global cross-functional teams & suppliers, plan and drive the PSE (Production Support Engineering), VE (Value Engineering), Transfer (Production Line Transfer) and NPD (New Product Development) projects to launch the products in good quality, on time delivery and competitive cost.

Key Responsibilities

·         Hands on in the PSE, VE, Transfer and new product development processes, engineering system enhancement and management activities.

·         Drive engineering talents recruitment, team training and development, plan for supporting future business growth needs.

·         Provide direction, coaching, guidance and motivation, and engage the team to achieve goal and build proactive, innovative, strong technical & high performing team, to facilitate the product development and problem solving.

·         Take lead and promote innovation, teamwork, continuous improvement, strong ownership and leadership mindset within Engineering team.

·         Develop and manage engineering department and project capex budget, and engineering resource plan.

·         Drive the development of standardization, platforms, design guidelines and streamlined processes and follow through to ensure all the product developments are delivered on time, at cost, within budget, meet or exceed established performance targets.

·         Develop engineering strategies and drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance engineering operation efficiency and effectiveness.

·         Promote effective communication with the global cross-functional teams, and the continuous improvement with suppliers.

·         Introduce new techniques and tools to the engineering development process to shorten development cycle time

·         Work with global cross-functional teams (Sourcing, Quality/SQE, etc.) on the supplier strategies development. 

·         Acts as liaison between PRC, US and Vietnam to make sure all engineering process and procedures are at the same page.

·         Lead the team to carry out engineering assessment of supplier qualification.

·         Supervises:

Ø  Lead and develop an team of 30 – 100 engineers working on all the PSE, VE, Transfer and NPD engineering activities.

·         Impact of the position

Ø  The position is critical for restructuring and developing Vietnam Engineering organization in PSE, VE, NPD, EE, Motor, SPE, Tooling, etc. in order the team can grow quickly and well support the Vietnam manufacturing, localization and new product development.