Engineering Manager (Electrical) Full Time Permanent

VTRAC Consulting Corporation
Intelligent Solutions

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Position#:                      23067

Position:                        Engineering Manager (Electrical)

Position Type:               Permanent
No. of Positions:           1
Location:                      Waterloo, ON

Description

This position presents an excellent opportunity to design and maintain advanced lighting control systems for Automotive and off-highway applications that are energy-efficient, intelligent, and both wired and wireless. The ideal candidate should possess a comprehensive knowledge base of digital and analogy circuit design, sensor integration, and networking in high-volume, high-reliability environments, as well as prior experience building and leading high-performance engineering teams. The role encompasses all stages of product development, from conception and system architecture to the delivery of designs that can be produced efficiently in high volumes and ongoing support. It is desirable to have prior experience complying with Automotive electrical performance requirements, as well as ISO 26262 functional safety standards.

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Key Responsibilities

• Lead an electrical hardware engineering team and participate in all aspects of recruiting, mentoring, performance management and training.
• Drive on-time execution, cycle time and escaping defects reduction following The Product Development Process
• Project manage hardware development and work with PMO resources on alignment with peer led projects for overall solution delivery
• Apply technical leadership, excellence in people management and commitment to the highest standards of program execution to operate successfully within a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary team.
• Identify new hardware capabilities, innovations, and technologies. Propose initiatives to implement new capabilities and lead, monitor and evaluate their success.
• Collaborate with a matrix of peers, suppliers and customers including Firmware development, QA, Product Management, Supply Chain, etc.
• Evaluate existing and emerging technologies to identify solutions that will reliably operate in a wide range of installed environments
• Clearly communicate design and component constraints and trade-offs to other team members and management, playing an advisory role as a subject matter expert to ensure that optimal design decisions are made
• Evaluate Intellectual Property (IP) landscape to identify risks created by existing IP and opportunities for creating valuable new IP
• Work closely with manufacturing to ensure that designs meet manufacturability and testing criteria and sustain these products in manufacturing
• Develop and distribute engineering data in the form of Engineering Change Notices, Bills of Material and parts tracking
• Perform system integration and validation testing activities, including verification of interoperability with customer-supplied peripherals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (EE), Computer Engineering (CE), or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience managing an engineering team
• 7+ years of experience of engineering products or solutions
• Expertise in analog and digital low voltage circuit design, PCB design and layout using Altium or similar software package
• Experience in modeling, p-spice simulation, circuit analysis, worst case thermal analysis, MTBF and product lifetime expectancy calculation
• Experience with communication and networking protocols (I2C, SPI, RS-485, Ethernet, etc.)
• Experience with wireless communication protocols (Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Bluetooth, BLE, Proprietary, etc.)
• Experience in debugging embedded solutions using tools such as debuggers and scopes
• Experience in recreating sporadic types of issues/failures using various debugging techniques
• Experience with Automotive requirements and solutions for EMC/EMI protocols desired
• Strong project management skills – demonstrated ability to take projects from start to finish with minimal supervision
• Hands-on experience with soldering, board bring-up and component-level debugging
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

We thank all candidates in advance. Only selected candidates for interviews will be contacted. For other exciting opportunities, please visit us at www.vtrac.com. VTRAC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Tagged as: BLE, Bluetooth, EMC/EMI, Ethernet, I2C, Proprietary, RS-485, SPI, Wi-Fi, ZigBee