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Job Location drjobs

Melbourne - Australia

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Portfolio Management

  • Drive a culture of collaboration innovation and customer focus.
  • Manage a diverse and multiskilled team to achieve departmental outcomes.
  • Drive the performance of the individual team members through accountability and examplebased 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 highlevel 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 selfserving of uptodate project and resource status.
  • Participate in project business cases and status reviews.

Engineering Leadership

  • Proactive 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 dont 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 nonspecialist 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.


Remote Work :

No


Employment Type :

Fulltime

Employment Type

Full-time

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