Position Responsibility

• Operational Excellence
  • Engage into various activities that to develop long-standing, self-managed, cross-functional, autonomous delivery teams, drive a culture of Ownership and Continuous Improvement
  • Maintain an effective and lean Management Operating System (MOS), support regular activities including annual event, regular project/technical review, resource allocation etc
  • Establish development team performance, productivities, and quality evaluation metrics (KPI, OKR etc) and reporting/analyzing mechanisms
• Engineering Execution
  • Work with project manager/finance partner, supporting team expense/cost planning, tracking, analysis, ensure finance target meet per annual planning. Also responsible for Daptiv timesheet tracking, validation of planned effort vs actual spending etc.
  • Engage into release management, tracking ECN(Engineering Change Notice) and ECR(Engineering Change Request)
  • Dealing with released product quality analysis, including Engineering relevant RMA and Tech Support cases
  • Work with HR/Ops/TA to improve employee experience in onboarding, motivation, feedback and engagement efforts.  
  • Support project and team procurement activities, capital management, spending compliance.
• Capability Improvement
  • Develop and deploy team technical and soft-skills training plan per team capabilities analysis and portfolio-based needs mapping
  • Build connection and alignment with global engineering function initiative and best practices, tailoring system/framework to fit local team needs
  • Innovation promotion, encourage participation global Tech Challenges and local innovation activities, develop IP objective and work to drive outputs
• Process Maturity
  • Ensure high quality process deployment and execution, follow RCLP process for NPI development
  • Agile maturity improvement, formalize role, practices and cadence
  • Improve problem solving and risk management skills with coaching, practicing and summarization.
• Transformation management
  • Assess, evaluate and analyze current engineering delivery practices and propose an engineering transformation plan promoting industry-leading RDE practices
  • Explore various local/global partnership on innovation value chain, support different collaboration model. Be active part of China technology eco-system   

• Education, Experience & Skills
   

• Bachelor or above degree in Engineering - Computer Science, Automation, Electronics etc preferred
• Minimum 10 years working experience in top relevant industrial MNC company, preferable in Research, Development and Engineering organization
• Minimum 5 years team management experience
• Minimum 5 years project management experience, good understanding in NPI or IPD process
• 3+ years of organizational change management experience
• demonstrated leadership experience through managing people and teams and leading/managing cross-functional teams
• Solid experiences in one or more specific Engineering functions – hardware development, software development or system/product testing etc.
• Understanding in Lean execution, Standard Work, Visual management, Kaizen etc
• Solid Six Sigma experience with green belt or black belt certificate, skills to apply Value Stream Mapping, Continuous Improvement, TMAP, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), FMEA etc
• Familiar with SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle), experience in CMMI model deployment
• Experience in Agile/Scrum development practices
• Demonstrated proficiency with implementing lean, standard work and continuous improvement programs and leading work system cultural transformations
• Proven record of leveraging technology, process optimization and work system development
• Vision for establishing and maximizing value from process optimization and cultural excellence
• Passionate about modern engineering best practices, efficiency, and productivity and see it as your mission to advocate for a strong, productive engineering culture
• Strong believer in the power of process, system and framework, and own the intelligence to balance compliance vs flexibility.
• Obsessed with using metrics to measure the impact and outcomes for your organization and stakeholders - "what gets measured gets managed."
• Understand the mindset of developers and are relentlessly driven to improve the developer experience
• Strong analytical skills, ability to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and recommend action plans to resolve issues
• Excellent skills in presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation, able to express technical and nontechnical concepts clearly and concisely
• Be proactive and organized and handle work under stressful and uncertain environments
• Mix of strategic, operational, analytical, and people skills