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Chief Engineer – Aftermarket
Company | Oshkosh |
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Location | Oshkosh, WI, USA |
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Salary | $102800 – $176800 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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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.