Senior Director, Engineering - Industrial Business

Sensata Technologies is looking for a Senior Director, Engineering for its 700M+ Industrial Business Unit. Primary responsibilities include overall leadership, management of business processes and design, resource planning (people, capital and expenses), competitor benchmark, and M&A capabilities assessment and integration. This person will be responsible for all new product development and sustaining engineering for the Industrial business.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in the Industrial space with responsibilities in a large global engineering team reaching from mechanical and electrical designs to software layer in order to deliver full sub-system capabilities. Operationally, he/she will have strong business acumen in competitive technologies analysis, quality and return on investment. He/She needs to have experience in change management to deliver improved performance and use critical thinking to prioritize business decisions.
In addition, he/she will need to have a forward-looking perspective and should be constantly seeking to drive innovation and improvements for the future.

Success in this position requires good market trends understanding, good team-building and influencing skills; both in working with internal teams, external teams and customers. Often times this position may require keen negotiations with internal and external teams to develop a win-win situation for the business and customers. This position reports to the Executive Vice President and President of Industrials.

Job Description 

• Work directly with Sales/Marketing/Business development teams to identify engineering opportunities that will increase global revenue via custom solutions and integrations 
• Develop a technology roadmap including a path toward sub-systems with software layer 
• Benchmarking of competitors’ products and strategy 
• Drive quality within sustaining engineering and new product development 
• Participate in M&A assessment and due diligence as well as integration of the acquired teams 
• Work as part of senior leadership team in making decisions related to operations, priority development, and financial performance and customer scorecards 
• Oversee Program Reviews- evaluate design solutions from the team, concept to full production 
• Drive New Business Opportunity’s (NBO) & New Product Development (NPD) from an engineering excellence standpoint: management of the NPD process for new products, modifications of existing products for quality, cost or continuity of supply and product test processes 
• Drive strategy & execution based on customer requirements and expectations 
• Drive actions and schedules needed to support those program expectations which will require working with cross-functional teams including Process engineering, Marketing, the Program Management Team and the Manufacturing sites 
• Annual planning: short term and long range plans 
• Talent Management: recruitment, development and retention of top talent. Must possess strengths in effectively evaluating team member’s abilities, coaching, mentoring and creating department succession plans 
• Continue to develop the engineering organization by building effective teams, structures, and processes that can support increase in business scales and complexity 
• Strong communication, collaboration and team building skills; ability to connect with all levels of the organization 
• Comfortable working in a global high matrix environment 
• ~20% travel required 

 

Experience/Qualifications: 

• A university degree required (i.e. Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience.
• BS/MS Mechanical or Electrical Engineering preferred, MBA a plus 
• Product design and development experience with experience of the software layer and creation of sub-systems 
• Experience and passion for inspiring and leading design teams 
• Must be able to successfully manage and motivate global team members  
• Demonstrated ability to implement standardized processes and best practices 
• Ability to work across all functions and levels of an organization 
• Excellent communication skills 
• Experience with managing projects and client relations 
• Solid understanding of materials and manufacturing processes 

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