Senior Mechanical Engineer

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Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.​

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

Job Summary:

Provides budget analysis, labor planning, and coordination of activities between client and company personnel.  Serves as mediator to internal issues and conflicting priorities for members of cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products to clients.  Monitors project completion from initiation through delivery to meet revenue and cost projections.  Manages project/mission to ensure customer satisfaction.

Develop and implement activities to meet goals, quality and cost objectives. Selects, develops and leads personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the project and develops schedules and manpower requirements for assigned areas.  Prioritizes schedules based on multiple factors and customer requirements. Plans and administers procedures and budgets.  Networks with key contacts outside own area of expertise.  Determines critical methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel.  Tasks and assignments tend to be highly complex, non-routine and/or require a greater level of expertise.  Receives assignments in the form of objectives with goals and process to meet goals outlined.  Duties are performed under very limited supervision.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. (other duties may be assigned):

• Plans, directs, controls and coordinates financial as well as engineering activities for the project(s), and for achieving financial and technical objectives.
• Define operational direction and institute remedial action(s) in order to satisfy customer requirements while achieving project specific /goals; gross margin targets; percent delivery on-time; bookings targets/goals; and customer satisfaction.
• Lead technical discussions regarding requirement definition, design, test, and launch operations
• Monitors project from initiation through delivery, interfacing with customers and subcontractors on technical matters.
• Organizes interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the program on schedule and within budget constraints.
• Assess status and risk, generate recovery plans and meet customer expectations and business objectives.
• Coordinates team activities to achieve assignments using established guidelines, procedures and policies by providing leadership to a unit or group of employees, assigning tasks and checking work at frequent intervals to ensure production goals are met within organization goals of budget, time requirements and high level of quality. 
• Interacts with subordinates and/or functional peer groups regarding exchange or presentation of information.
• Manages the adherence to prescribed procedures to ensure first pass quality meets or exceeds planned goals.
• Prepares reports.
• Identifies obstacles to achieving business goals and provides solutions or seeks assistance.
• Works to avoid erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results that may cause scrap, rework, use of excessive overtime, and/or delays in schedules.
• Daily availability to include evenings and weekends when necessary to reach goals and deadlines.

Supervisory Responsibilities                                                                                                                                                                           

This job has no supervisory responsibilities but may provide technical leadership to lower level engineers including carrying out lead responsibilities in accordance with applicable regulations and laws and the organization’s policies and procedures.  This includes, but is not limited to planning, assigning, directing work and resolving technically related work problems as well as coordinating efforts with other Teledyne departments and subcontractors.

Competencies                                                                                                                                                                           

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Has proficiency in one of the following engineering dis