Firmware Engineering Manager

JOB SUMMARY:

Midmark is the only clinical environmental design company that enables a better care experience at the point of care in medical, dental and animal health. Our unique approach to designing products and solutions revolves around a single idea: We design seamless solutions that simplify and enable better care, wherever clinician and patient interaction occurs.

Midmark serves over 10 million patients per day, both human and pet and this drives our mission to transform healthcare.  We have a culture that truly takes care of teammates, our customers, and our communities in a balanced and humble way.  We are in it for the long-term, making sure we hit our short-term objectives without sacrificing our long-term success, as evidenced by our 107 years of success.  

We are currently in a pivotal transformation to crank up our internal innovation to serve our healthcare transformation and we need teammates who are skilled in delivering high quality technical results while being truly committed to the team, to the customer, and being a positive leader of change.  All this while being a servant leader, no matter the position, and infusing fun in the journey.

The Firmware Engineering Manager position is a very important position chartered to accelerate innovation at Midmark and lead us through our Digital Transformation.  As we strive to activate the diverse talent within our multiple innovation hubs across the country, this position is at the tip of the spear for creating this value.  

We are building something special at Midmark, we have a new Innovation Center with state-of-the-art design, prototyping and testing capabilities.   We believe innovation is a team sport and our facilities are designed to drive cross-functional collaboration between teammates in order to deliver the best possible solution to our customers.  Our teammates enjoy a flexible work environment that provides individual work/life balance.  To be a part of something wonderfully impactful and realize more than you thought imaginable in your engineering career, come join the Midmark Engineering Team!

Responsible for leading the appropriate functional area in Product Engineering to deliver new products and services on time, on budget, and within quality targets. Responsible for adherence to NPD process, regulatory requirements of new products, and teammate development within the functional area. Lead an engineering team engaged in multiple project initiatives. This position is also responsible for the technical development of the teammates reporting to them. Collaborates with Engineering Managers, and Product Engineering Managers to make resource allocation decisions to support best develop and resource projects in the portfolio. 

ESSENTIAL/PRIMARY DUTIES:

• Develop the technical skill level of the teammates within the engineering function
• Provide goals and feedback to assist in teammate development
• Utilize all appropriate management techniques to drive team effectiveness and engagement
• Coach DFSS problem solving framework to increase NPD capability and promote continuous improvement
• Effective application of appropriate Engineering, Scientific, and Design Technologies
• Promoting Subject Matter Experts (SME) in the technology platforms within the function
• Participate and lead where appropriate the technology roadmap of the function to align the organization for increased NPD throughput and quality
• Partners with Product Engineering Managers and other organizational functions to meet departmental and organizational goals
• Through appropriate engagement and education maintain up-to-date knowledge in all areas of responsibility.
• Develop standards and processes to improve functional performance and effectiveness of team
• Engage in sustaining work where applicable to ensure high quality and limit line down situations in production
• Responsible for the delivery of engineering capability to satisfy product design and service demands of the organization
• Responsible and accountable for the budget within the function group in coordination with organizational goals

Firmware Essential Duties: 

• Responsible for cybersecurity initiatives within product development
• Maintain and adopt ultimate responsibility for firmware development requirements
• Identify firmware development tools and plans to maintain a development edge
• Define a plan to retain and build firmware technical capabilities
• Develop SME’s or design partnerships to implement UI/UX experiences

Electrical Essential Duties: 

• Responsible for developing and maintaining standardized hardware platforms
• Maintain and adopt ultimate responsibility for electrical development requir