Chief Engineer – Aftermarket

Chief Engineer – Aftermarket

Requirements

• Accredited Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field with ten (10) or more years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a large engineering team consisting of Managers, Engineers, Designers, and Technicians across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Plan, direct, and coordinate business and product strategy to ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Provide coaching and development for leaders including exposure to workforce planning, succession planning, resource allocation, horizon planning, conflict resolution, people first leadership.
• Prepare and control department budget(s), forecast operating costs of department, and direct preparation of budget requests.
• Has high level P&L responsibility.
• Understand market share and P&L for their product line – strong business acumen.
• Collaborate with functional leaders to achieve strategic initiatives.
• Ability to present and defend technical engineering decisions to Engineering leadership, Oshkosh leadership, and external customers.
• Develop engineering goals and strategic plans for their platform team or product line.
• Participate in the budgeting process to include recommending capital improvements and preparing justification data as required.
• Conduct the research necessary to be an advocate for new technologies/products that will enable the business.
• Identify and provide potential innovative solutions to complex issues.
• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Accredited Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• Strong, in depth, mechanical knowledge of automotive or heavy-vehicle equipment and related systems.
• Experience with a high-level CAD system.