Engineering Director

As our Sr. Director of Performance & Productivity Engineering you will lead the global multi-disciplinary engineering team responsible for maintaining the range of legacy CPI products. This includes development of product enhancements and feature expansion, support of supply chain changes, and designs that drive cost savings. Critical to the success will be prioritization and capacity-based management to ensure effectiveness utilizing standard operating procedures and KPI metrics and dashboard. This role will be both a leader and technologist. Success in this role requires working collaboratively with the different functional leaders across the business along with senior leadership to successfully deliver profitable growth to the business and meet the needs of our customers., The Sr. Director of Performance & Productivity Engineering will have a direct impact on the business, responsible for:

• Responsible for implementing common methodologies and tools across the global team and ensuring capacity-based planning to drive efficiencies across all projects
• Work with the VPGMs and/or Product Managers to set priorities and manage incoming requests to ensure they drive value, direct or indirect. Provide monthly KPIs metrics to ensure transparency and communication of status
• Work with team leaders to plan and manage multiple simultaneous projects ad to identify methods for increasing product knowledge across multiple team members to increase flexibility
• Providing leadership and managing the career development of direct reports, including hardware engineers & discipline engineering managers. Coaching and mentoring the managers on the development of their teams
• Ensuring the safe and effective operation of the CPI model shops and development labs managed by this team
• Establish KPIs and continuously refine processes to improve quality and efficiency
  
  If you want to have a hands-on global impact on payment solutions, we want you to join our team as a Sr. Engineering Director!, You will bring a deep understanding of structure problem solving practices with well demonstrated success in managing competing priorities to enable effective and efficient operation, Bachelor's degree in an Engineering discipline or related field, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Minimum 10 years of experience in product design
• Previous supervisory experience is required to lead a team of 5-6 direct reports
• Results driven, collaborative, flexible, deep thinker with solid problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated business acumen applicable to global electronics company including an understanding of the Product Devlopment life-cycle process
• A proven change agent with strong managerial courage
• Cross cultural and organizational agility, including strong team building skills
• Ability to effectively communicate complex technical information to various cross-functional audiences
• Six Sigma Green Belt -- Black Belt is a plus
• Ability to travel both domestic and internationally 30-40%
• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the US. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Personal Attributes
• Action Oriented: High energy level, comfortable performing multifaceted projects in conjunction with day-to-day activities
• Creative Thinker: Excellent influencing skills, analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Decision Maker: Ability to quickly analyze data/situations and draw relevant conclusions to have positive effects on business in a complex environment; ability to make decisions to achieve desired results and establish credibility
• Motivator: Results and people oriented with sound judgement - ability to balance other business considerations
• Team Player: Ability to work in a matrix organization
• Strong Communicator: Excellent communication skills verbally and in writing
  
  Have you ever used the self-checkout in a Walmart or Target? Played the slots at an MGM casino? Maybe you grabbled a drink for a vending machine or paid to park your car? If you answered with a resounding "YES", then you have done so with the aid of one of the 10 million devices installed by Crane Payment Innovations (CPI).
We make the technology that powers your everyday life, enabling more than 4 billion transactions every week in more than 143 currencies worldwide. From cash and coins to cards and mobile, we keep the world of payments moving with smart validation devices and business management software. Headquartered in Malvern, PA, CPI is supported by more than 2300 global associates, 7 manufacturing sites, and 12 corporate offices., Crane NXT is a premier industrial technology company that provides proprietary and trusted technology solutions to secure, detect, and authenticate what matters most to its customers. The company is a pioneer in advanced, proprietary micro-optics technology for securing physical products, and its sophisticated electronic equipment and associated software leverages proprietary core capabilities with detection and sensing technologies. Crane NXT has approximately 4000 employees with global operations and manufacturing facilities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, and Malta. For more information, visit www.cranenxt.com


• Flexible work environments
• Defined career growth plans with opportunities to go outside of your "comfort zone"
• Team building activities that support innovation
• Generous paid time off plus sick and Holiday pay
• Medical, dental & vision insurance plans
• 401K with company contribution
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Discounts for childcare
• Tuition assistance
• Community involvement and volunteering events
• Opportunities to travel and work at global sites
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