Senior Design/VAVE Manager Job Listing at Flex in Suzhou, Jiangsu (Job ID WD197621)

Description

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. 

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion and cultivate a workplace culture of belonging that views uniqueness as a competitive edge and builds a community that enables our people to push the limits of innovation to make great products that create value and improve people's lives. 

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a Senior Design/VAVE Manager located in Suzhou.

Reporting to the Director, Operations Engineering, the Senior Design/VAVE Manager role involves…

What a typical day looks like:

• Leading all Product Development Engineers to work effectively and accurately
• Product Design Lead & Technical program management for joint development service
• Lead the team to propose the best technical and cost-effective solution to customer
• Drive the project delivered in target timeline and within budget control
• Motivate and develop subordinates to design and develop industrial/medical product  capability.
• Coordinate with relevant function to resolve on engineering, materials and human resources matter within and outside of flex
• Establish on-going training program for product engineers
• Drive value added service (BOM risk analysis, cost down design, alternative components replacement, hardcore troubleshooting) to support industrial/medical customers
• Main driver for recruiting technically competent engineers in the highly technical based environment
• Complete other tasks assigned by engineering director

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• Bachelor's degree in EE engineering or Computer Science.
• Over 15 years of experience on R&D background and 10 years of project management / supervisor experience.
• Experience with industrial standard, IoT technology, high speed data transmission, wireless design, embedded system (Arm or x86), power design
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Chinese and in English
• Knowledge on management style and deeply knowledge on the culture's elements and development to cross product life cycle
• Knowledge on the tools which are relative to the project managements (PMP certified will be bonus), R&D, QA management like DOE, DFMEA, 8D, Six Sigma, risk management, etc.
• Knowledge on the CAD tools which are relative to product design (Cadence, Mentor, PI/SI Simulation, SolidWorks, etc.)
• Knowledge on DFx analysis with development team and manufacturing team
• Knowledge on ECO management, component derating, MTBF calculation, reliability test, EMC test and Certification
• Relative finance knowledges on cost management, relative risk knowledges on risk/events management
• Strong management skills not only for the team internal but also cross functional support
• Ability to conduct workshops to improve/guide staff technical and leadership skills
• Ability to lead technical discussion with customer, propose design concept
• Experience to manage sustaining support to extend product life cycle
• Team working spirit should be highly necessary
• Lead team and provide guideline to get team successful and make team grow up, manage / development resources, modular of relative meeting/activities of team/department

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Social Insurance
• Life Insurance
• PTO

Required Skills:

Optional Skills:

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