Harbor Freight Tools · 20 hours ago
Sr Lead Engineer, Product Development - Welding (Remote)
Calabasas, CA
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Driving Schedules: Ability to read schedules and to drive project tasks to timely completion with a sense of urgency. Proactively identifies and recommends actions that accelerate completion with acceptable risk.
Support Vendor Selection and Enhancement: Provide clear project specifications and assist global sourcing in assessment and selection of factories for development and manufacturing capabilities. Participate in audits and address issues through factory corrective actions. Proactively provides recommendations to improve vendor capability.
Organization: Strong organizational ability with attention to detail. Optimizes work flow to improve efficiency.
Adaptation: Must possess sense of urgency, collaborative team style, and ability to quickly adapt to changes in priorities.
Defining Product Specifications: Utilize knowledge of market landscape, corporate objectives, and product needs to define and communicate clear expectations to vendors for quotation and development.
Quality Assurance: Upholds high standards of quality for each product to ensure customer satisfaction and long term reliability. Measures success by online customer reviews and returns %.
Product Testing: Supports testing group by preparing appropriate test methods, instructions, and plans. Proactively updates test protocols. Reviews reports, interacts with test team, and generates appropriate corrective action plans.
Completion of tasks: Ability to absorb, prioritize, and complete multiple parallel tasks. Works well under time constraints and can deliver on multiple advanced tasks in a fast-paced environment. Creates and fosters processes that enhance task completion. Mindful of how completion affects others.
Inspections: Update and publish list of items to be inspected to ensure product inspections are focused on the most important items. Proactively works with overseas inspection team to identify inspection process improvement areas and create solutions to improve inspection quality.
Mature Product Support: Support complaint handling group in resolving product complaints by analyzing product and market comparisons. Read and respond to customer reviews directly and through FAQs. Review product and related literature to identify root causes and viable solutions. Drive corrective actions.
Individual Contribution: Actively completes assignments as an individual contributor to 25 or more projects with elevated complexity. Assists manager with tasks assigned to manager.
Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting with various departments and outside parties such as Global Sourcing, Merchant, Asia teams, and vendors. Understands how their work, and the way they work, affect others.
Visibility and Escalation to Leadership: Provides constant and timely updates on project status and systems improvements to manager, cross functional team, and leadership team using appropriate communication methods. Anticipates events and prepares leadership in advance.
Management Responsibilities: Models responsible behavior and coaches others in their work.
Decision Making: Works independently and exercises independent judgment and good decision-making skills. Solves project and system problems with little support. Leverages collaborative culture and escalations, understanding when and how to appropriately involve others.
Reliability: Consistently present, attentive and engaged in daily operations to effectively reach defined goals
Safety Mindedness: Understand and be involved in workplace safety to ensure all employees follow safety rules and procedures.
Qualification
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Required
Completed Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Industrial Engineering or Physical Science from an accredited university
10+ years of direct experience
Ability to read schedules and to drive project tasks to timely completion with a sense of urgency
Provide clear project specifications and assist global sourcing in assessment and selection of factories for development and manufacturing capabilities
Strong organizational ability with attention to detail
Must possess sense of urgency, collaborative team style, and ability to quickly adapt to changes in priorities
Utilize knowledge of market landscape, corporate objectives, and product needs to define and communicate clear expectations to vendors for quotation and development
Upholds high standards of quality for each product to ensure customer satisfaction and long term reliability
Supports testing group by preparing appropriate test methods, instructions, and plans
Ability to absorb, prioritize, and complete multiple parallel tasks
Update and publish list of items to be inspected to ensure product inspections are focused on the most important items
Support complaint handling group in resolving product complaints by analyzing product and market comparisons
Actively completes assignments as an individual contributor to 25 or more projects with elevated complexity
Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting with various departments and outside parties
Provides constant and timely updates on project status and systems improvements to manager, cross functional team, and leadership team
Models responsible behavior and coaches others in their work
Works independently and exercises independent judgment and good decision-making skills
Consistently present, attentive and engaged in daily operations to effectively reach defined goals
Understand and be involved in workplace safety to ensure all employees follow safety rules and procedures
Must have basic written communication skills and convey messages in an effective manner
Speak and listen to others in person, over the phone, and on video calls in English
Must have refined skills developing and presenting information in multimedia format
Must be skilled in MS Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Project), CAD, web search, and e-mail
Resolves problems using professional communication, technical skill, and appropriate sense of urgency
Understanding of advanced mechanical systems and cost with demonstrated ability to develop mechanisms
Understanding of advanced electronics and costs, with an aptitude to learn controls used in area of assignment
Demonstrated ability overseeing quality control systems and product manufacturing
Ability to apply, follow, and create appropriate formalized testing methods to prove reliability of products according to HFT standards
Demonstrate proficiency to work with a wide range of equipment including electronic testing equipment, small motor dynamometer, AC/DC load banks, data acquisition systems, environmental chambers, hardness testers, and other lab tools
Knowledge of UL, CSA, and other regulatory standards with application to product design
Understanding of the competitive market and business environment for categories of responsibility and expertise
Recognized expertise in one or more product category and peripheral knowledge in adjacent categories
Execute HFT response to market conditions and business environment within assigned categories
Company
Harbor Freight Tools
Harbor Freight Tools is a leader in providing high-quality tools at the lowest prices in the industry.
10001+ employees
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Late StageLeadership Team
Jean-Michel Kientz
Chief Technology Officer
Tomas Kokko
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
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