Director, Product Engineering
Nuvera

Job Title
Director, Product Engineering
Job Family

Job Description

Nuvera Fuel Cells, LLC is a manufacturer of heavy-duty, zero-emissions hydrogen fuel cell stacks and engines for mobility applications. With facilities located in the U.S. and Europe, Nuvera provides clean, safe, and efficient products designed to meet the rigorous needs of industrial vehicles and other transportation markets.

Nuvera is a subsidiary of Hyster-Yale Group, Inc., which designs, engineers, manufactures, sells, and services a comprehensive line of lift trucks and aftermarket parts marketed globally primarily under the Hyster® and Yale® brand names. Hyster-Yale Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc. (NYSE:HY). Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc. and its subsidiaries, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, employ approximately 7,600 people worldwide.

We are seeking a Director, Product Engineering to join our team. The Director, Product Engineering leads engineering teams to support all Nuvera launched products with engineering solutions, processes and documentation to ensure the technical health and success in the market place. In close collaboration with all Nuvera functions worldwide, this role initiates, proposes and executes continuous improvements and updates on quality and cost in a broad product definition.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

Product Improvement Strategy:

• Strategy to resolve quality issues and threats clearly defined and communicated. Cost down strategy and projects clearly defined, resourced, and delivered. Key facilitator of Engineering Change Board decisions. Clear communication of strategy and status across the business.

Technical Excellence:

• Director and teams have deep technical knowledge of current products and underlying technologies. Products meet or exceed efficiency, reliability, durability and cost targets. Develop and implement strategies for product lifecycle management, from moving products smoothly from development to production, end-of-life planning and product phase-out.

Leadership and Team Management

• Effective recruitment and retention of a high performing team, resources allocated effectively to deliver CI projects on time. Mentor, coach and develop engineering talent.

Finance

• Set annual operating plan (AOP). Track and manage budget to within +/-10% of AOPF at year end.

Required Job Qualifications (unless otherwise noted):

Educational Background

BS or MS degree in engineering discipline (Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical or Software Engineering)

Previous Work Experience

• 15+ years of proven high-performance team management experience with demonstrated skills including coaching, feedback, direction, support, and resource allocation.
• 15+ years of new product development and launch experience, preferably within a fast-paced technology environment.

Skills and Abilities

• Strong analytical skills and solid grounding in engineering fundamentals.
• Mastery with requirements management, verification & validation.
• Proven people management skills; building effective teams, managing resources. Demonstrated self-confidence to lead a team of subject matter experts.
• Demonstrated organizational abilities; ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a quickly changing environment while ensuring rigorous attention to detail and follow through.
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently solve business and product level problems.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative and responsibility-a "can-do" attitude.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively (verbal & written), laterally with peers, upward with senior management, and with direct staff.

Travel Required

• Up to 10% travel

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

• Laboratory and office work environments.

Nuvera Fuel Cells, LLC. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Nuvera participates in e-Verify.

Job ID
0552
Employment Type
Full time

Work Hours

40
Travel Required

Primary Location
Nuvera US Billerica, MA
Address
129 Concord Road Building 1
Zip Code
01821
Field-Based
No
Relocation Assistance Available
No

We are an equal opportunity employer with an excellent benefit package including medical, dental and life insurance, 401(k) and profit sharing.

EOE/Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled

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