Engineering Manager - Life Safety (Fire)

What you’ll do:

Leading/Managing the Fire, Intrusion and Notification R&D specialist team, comprising of Fire Devices and Systems product architects and regulatory specialists across all locations    
    • Leading/Managing the Fire, Intrusion and Notification R&D specialist team, comprising of Fire Devices and Systems product architects and regulatory specialists across all locations (Cwmbran, Riom, Longbranch, Sarasota, Mitcheldean, Doncaster) of Life Safety. 
    • Responsible for defining and deploying product line technology roadmaps in alignment with product line strategy and product roadmaps
    • Working closely with product management, business development and commercial teams to ensure market and customer alignment
    • Consulting common engineering teams [Life safety common engineering teams, Eaton CoEs, extended engineering teams at Pune and Prague) on product line specific requirements, customer feedback,  and product enhancements 
    • Review all projects to ensure products are  designed in accordance with customer and market requirements as well as within target cost to achieve budget and profit plan
    • Accountable to ensure sustenance of existing products to keep a competitive position
    • Responsible to define the VAVE pipeline for the product line to ensure cost competitiveness of the product line
    • Working closely with project managers to keep a close watch on timelines committed to market 
    • Driving fair project prioritisation to ensure resources are well balanced across product lines of Life Safety
    • Ensure current and future conformity of the Fire, Intrusion and Notification portfolio with relevant regulations, standards, norms and legislation 
    • Work closely with testing and qualification teams to assure quality of products
    • Foster the culture of innovation and publication with point of view
    • Ensure compliance with cyber security and environmental requirements
    • Responsible for IP protection related to Fire product line
   • Supervise (dotted) engineering teams present within the same site
    • Establish and maintain an active and effective collaboration with other engineering leaders within Life Safety and within EATON.
    • Update and review regularly the resource allocation to the product line specific projects
    • Encourage the teams to follow common processes of product development/Prolaunch across all developments  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor or master’s degree of Engineering
• Minimum 15 years of experience,Multi site engineering leadership experience in a global matrixed organisation
  
  

Skills:

• Deep domain knowledge around Fire Detection/Intrusion
• Excellent organizational skills , attention to details, ability to organize and prioritize the work , ability to work in team , to work under preasure