Sr. Project Leaders – Cordless New Product Development (NPD)

Job Description:

Sr. Project Leaders – Cordless New Product Development (NPD)

13135 West Lisbon Road, Brookfield, WI 53005

Job Description

• Provide leadership over moderate to highly complex cordless new product development design engineering projects.
• Responsible for the completion of assigned engineering projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines.
• Provide direction, guidance, and engineering expertise to team members. Review work of designers, engineers and other project team members. May manage project team members.
• Drive project design to meet market driven design guides and fulfill cost, timing, reliability, and high-volume manufacturing requirements.
• Analyze, evaluate, and select from design execution alternatives to best meet specification objectives and implement designs into mass production.
• Accountable for technical elements of project execution, including integration of complicated components and assemblies, material selection, packaging and safety, and regulatory and standards compliance.
• Conduct design and safety reviews to gain necessary approvals for product development phase progressions.
• Comply with all company procedures covering new product development and design output in addition to procedures of non-engineering departments related to project flow.
• Track project schedule to ensure adherence to timelines. Schedule, develop agendas, facilitate, and document project meetings.
• Maintains an awareness of competitive offerings and the general business climate in the power tool industry.
• Identify project risks and implement risk reduction plans.
• Interact with manufacturing plants and outside suppliers to achieve project goals.
• Make component material or process recommendations.
• Design new experiments and test systems.

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related engineering field, or foreign degree equivalent and 7 years of relevant experience as an Engineer, or alternate acceptable occupation; OR Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related engineering field, or foreign degree equivalent and 5 years of relevant experience as an Engineer, or alternate acceptable occupation.

Work or academic experience must have included:

Product development experience with global manufacturing Product Development through Phase Gate Process. Forging, Injection Molding, Die Casting, and Machining supply bases. Guiding a cross functional team of Mechanical, Electrical, Motor, and Reliability Engineers in product development, from concept to distribution on schedule while meeting strict cost and performance requirements through a phase gate process. Understanding, building, and presenting product development status on Key Performance Indicators of Cost, Performance, and Schedule.

15% domestic and international travel

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Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.