青岛招聘

Working Location: Taian Shandong (山东泰安)
Department: R&D Department
Report to: R&D Director

Purpose

The position has technical product ownership for product line, i.e. new product development, customer engineering and leading technical business support.
New Product Development includes technical part of product portfolio management, and development of new products.

Business Support includes managing engineering resources for sales support, logistics planning, sourcing support, quality operations and after sales service support.

Customer Engineering includes actual design work for new or modified modules, creation of Bill of Material for each project, component specifications, software modifications, drawing of diagrams and creation of technical documentation per project.

Responsibility

1. Industry knowledge and external focus
* Stay up to date with engineering developments and technical trends impacting truck cranes and other mobile cranes.
* Stay up to date with activities and requirements of customers and competitors
2. Engineering
* Develop and ensure implementation new crane product development strategy and planning to achievement of business overall goals and targets.
3. Manage new product development projects and ensure that standards of quality, cost and other performance criteria are observed and that time schedules are met.
* Coordinate engineering activities with design team and other partners and ensure exchange of information, concepts, designs, drawings and techniques in the various engineering fields.
* Provide technical sales support for new sales during initial phase of inquiries.
4. Engineering department
* Develop and implement the Engineering organizational structure with clearly understandable systems and processes.
*Ensure the required level of resources to support the Engineering activities and to transform engineering and customer insights into products.
*Provide leadership and set standards, engineering methods, policies and procedures for the Engineering activities.
*Ensure HR strategies, processes and tools are implemented with the support of HR.
*Encourage and support local Engineering team to ensure high performance and compliance with relevant requirements related to:
a. Understanding customer requirements and preferences
b. Developing customer value propositions
c. Project management
d. Documentation management
* Set key performance Indicators for continuous improvement and support local Engineering team to achieve them
5. HR management
* Apply leadership skills to develop a motivating work culture, encourage productive teamwork and promote a customer friendly, business winning culture.
* Role model the provision of constructive performance feedback and coaching to local Engineering team.


Requirement

1. Appropriate University degree (e.g. mechanical/structural engineering)
2. Preferably 10 years of experience in Engineering across different job levels.
3. Product, application and process knowledge and profound knowledge of engineering management principles.
4. Experience in the mechanical handling, mobile equipment, automotive industry or similar preferred.
5. Knowledge in crane industry is preferred.
6. Combines strategic vision, overview and analytical capabilities with pragmatism, creativity and operational skills.
7. Proven track record in leading and managing people.
8. Fluent in written and spoken English.

Cathay Consulting is an International Management Consulting Company specializing in establishing companies in China and building and developing their management team. Since establishing our first office on the mainland in 1993, we have successfully assisted hundreds of companies to set-up in China and to build a successful business here.
During the past 20 years, we have been helping established international companies in China to develop their business.
Our client list includes multinational companies such as ABB, Coca-Cola, Ericsson, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Gillette, IKEA, Schering Plough, Philips, Hoechst, Volvo, Westinghouse, San Miguel and many others.