?Participate as a member of the department’s management team in the development of new product process strategies, pla and improvement initiatives and other general management and administrative activities.

?Provides leadehip over highly complex and high priority design projects. Provides direction, guidance and engineering expertise to team membe. Review work of designe, enginee and other project team membe.

?Respoible for the completion of assigned engineering projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines. Prepare project budgets, capital expenditure forecasts, status reports and other reports as necessary to effectively manage the project activity.

?Communicates, both verbal and written, to assure all groups are working toward the goal of timely project completion. Communicate technical details, ideas, and concepts to enginee and non-enginee in multiple locatio.

?Drive design of project to meet market driven design guides and fulfill cost, timing, reliability, and high volume manufacturing requirements.

?Analyze, evaluate and select from design execution alternatives to best meet specification objectives and implement desig into mass production.

?Accountable for technical elements of project execution including integration of complicated components and assemblies, material selection, packaging and safety, regulatory and standards compliance.

?Plan and oveee design and safety reviews as needed to gain necessary approvals for product development phase progressio.

?Comply with all METCo procedures covering new product development and design output in addition to procedures of non-engineering departments related to project flow.

?Coistently visualizes entire scope of a project with very little guidance.

?Schedules, develops agendas, facilitates and documents project meetings.

?Tracks project schedule to eure adherence to timelines.

?Regularly makes presentatio of project status.

?May occasionally recommend changes to existing standards and procedures.

?Maintai an awareness of competitive offerings and the general business climate in the power tool industry.

?Perform administrative activities necessary for the effective management of direct reports, including pay administration, setting goals and objectives, and planning, organizing, integrating and measuring the work performed. Provide performance feedback to cross functional team membe for performance reviews.

?Identify project risks and implement risk reduction pla.

Manufacturing

?Interacts exteively with manufacturing plants and outside supplie to achieve project goals.

?Makes component material or process recommendatio.

Testing

?Desig new experiments and test systems.

?Exhibits vision and foresight to test the extremes of a design and guide the team membe through well thought out, logical test regimes.