Job Description Portfolio Management Drive a culture of collaboration, innovation and customer focus.
Manage a diverse and multi-skilled team to achieve departmental outcomes.
Drive the performance of the individual team members through accountability and example-based leadership and the PBO process.
Coach, mentor & guide individual team members to realise their potential.
Identify and/or grow Engineering talent through development, management, and recruitment.
Establish and action progression & succession plans to retain knowledge and core competencies, and reward potential.
Recognise, reward, and retain essential skill sets, high performers and contributors.
Product Development Management Work with Product & Project Management to maintain a high-level schedule of projects linked to forecast resource allocation.
Manage the product development pipeline to ensure new projects are scoped and planned at a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) level, awaiting execution.
Ensure project execution follows NPD processes in a pragmatic and efficient manner.
Ownership of the Mechatronics NPD process ensuring continuous review and improvement of the process.
Ensure that financial & timing analyses for planned projects are prepared as part of the NPD process.
Prepare Portfolio level yearly budgets (CAPEX & OPEX) and headcount submissions.
Review project timelines and available resource pool to achieve product requirements, project costs and timing.
Create and maintain transparent reporting tools for interdepartmental and stakeholder groups on projects, KPIs, and other portfolio matters.
Maintain an online portal allowing self-serving of up-to-date project and resource status.
Participate in project business cases and status reviews.
Engineering Leadership Pro-active participation as part of the Engineering Leadership team in reviewing and enhancing departmental strategies and processes that aims to improve the efficiency and performance of the Engineering department.
Maintain and communicate a Portfolio Vision Document outlining the high level vision and expectations for the portfolio.
Consistently promote and demonstrate the defined Engineering Values and Behaviors.
Safety Ensure the working environment is safe at all times and activities conducted are safe and don't harm self or other employees Maintain Safety compliance with the relevant legislation and regulations for safe working practices and functional compliance Eliminate risks in the working environment by conducting housekeeping, conducting risk assessments and working the line manager to eliminate or at least mitigate the hazards Report incidents such as near miss, accident or equipment damage using the reporting system Report incidents of any form of harassment, bullying or adverse behaviours Report any perceptions of deterioration in or concerns of the mental and emotional wellbeing of others Design Quality Management Involved in Peer/Design Reviews of all technically applicable work.
Ensure design concepts are peer reviewed by Technical Leadership Ensure refined designs are reviewed and approved by Technical Managers Stakeholder Management Build relationships with Project Team members, Engineering Leadership & Management, Product Management, Operations and After Sales to determine and resolve issues associated with the project and product design.
Escalate personnel issues to Executive Leadership where they cannot be resolved in the Project Team or Portfolio setting.
Best Practice Redefine the craft of Product Development using a pragmatic application of best practice Product Development techniques and methodologies.
Choose and utilise appropriate tools, applications and workflows to ensure project delivery and resources are used in an optimised fashion.
Manage engineering continuous improvement activities from feasibility to execution, to achieve departmental efficiencies and goals.
Innovation & Technology Keep abreast of latest technology trends and patterns in associated engineering fields, focusing on possible internal applications Encourage and foster a culture of innovation, technical creativity and curiosity.
Qualifications Proven technical excellence in specific engineering discipline, exhibiting a comprehensive breadth of knowledge in multiple areas of that engineering discipline.
Demonstrated technical competence in non-specialist engineering disciplines. Proven comprehension of technical/engineering and design principles, and relevant technologies and their application to machine tool design.
Proven financial, business and strategic acumen.
Proven facilitation skills and ability to engage stakeholders whilst maintaining the broader perspective of corporate objectives, focus and impetus.
Proven ability to create a vision and compelling reason to believe for engineers.
Proven high impact negotiation and communication skills that are able to be deployed across every level of the business.
Proven ability to clearly define objectives and priorities, and operates accordingly.
Proven ability to context switch between strategic and tactical initiatives and tasks, resulting in reprioritization, resetting objectives & goals, and redeploying resources with agility Proven ability to autonomously manage large to medium projects, prioritize tasks and deliver to milestones and objectives.
Outstanding verbal and written communication that enables influence and inspiration, as well as clear and concise reporting.
Proven critical thinking and decision making skills in the face of uncertainty.