Us Theater Engineering Manager
Bose (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

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Requirements
Manage Bose engineering functions for system products for vehicle makers, located in the US. Build and manage the engineering teams that support the particular Theater customer both locally and remote. Manage and coordinate indirect engineering and other development-related functions throughout the Bose community. Plan and execute multiple simultaneous system product development programs including achievement of schedule, cost, vehicle integration, delivered quality, and sonic performance goals. Serve as key, senior Bose representative to customer engineering management, insuring their needs are met by Bose personnel, technologies and development activities. With Bose Automotive Product Planning, actively engage customer product planners to enable smooth, mutually beneficial development progress. Work collaboratively with theatre team members at other locations to achieve goals for product and business. Guide and stimulate creativity of the theater team, audio systems engineering, and the broad engineering community, including manufacturing to conceive and demonstrate a steady flow of new Bose product architectures and technologies, securing sell-in and minimum time-to-market. Work with Manufacturing Engineering and other internal resources to meet business objectives. Participate as a key member of the theater leadership team.

Skills
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
1.Build, manage and supervise a cross-functional engineering team including product and project management teams
a.Develop existing personnel and hire personnel (permanent and temporary) required to execute business objectives.
b.Establish and communicate performance expectations; provide regular feedback and coaching and complete personnel appraisals and development plans annually.
c.Continue increasing the capability of field offices and/or subsidiary groups.
d.Develop and support a flexible resource model for the US Theater.
e.Manage the Bloomfield Hills office, including physical and organization.
f.Manage Theater Engineering specific budgets to agreed upon goals.
2.Project Execution
a.Complete program transition reviews on schedule, with agreed upon quality goal.
b.Achieve system cost targets (development and standard) required to support business team objectives (by SOP) agreed upon in the Team Feasibility Commitment (TFC).
c.Achieve component cost targets (by SOP) agreed upon in the TFC.
d.Ensure that PDMs (Project Development Managers) coordinate and manage all aspects of vehicle development, including electronics, transducers, tuning and systems integration.
e.Ensure that each project has a well defined, coordinated and integrated schedule consistent with our Program Management Processes.
f.Support Manufacturing Engineering to ensure that all components achieve 100% production intent processes before Production Validation (PV) builds.
g.Meet agreed upon Right First Time (RFT) metrics by Design Validation testing.
h.Identify and engage outside resources to develop and validate automotive components (ex: brackets, bass boxes, etc.).
3.Customer
a.Establish and manage relationships with customer engineering leadership (up to executive levels) and staff ensuring needs are being met.
b.Meet agreed upon program deliverables per required timing and accuracy.
c.Meet agreed upon targets for on time prototype delivery (zero issues is the ultimate goal).
d.Ensure customer requirements are understood, negotiated where applicable, and ultimately met.
e.Develop, maintain and execute a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) plan.
4.Process
a.Manage all relevant processes and tools including those that are unique to the theater engineering team.
b.Participate in common process development that is cross-theater.
c.Ensure that the development process is aligned with Bose Product Development process, and other best practices.
5.Quality
a.Monitor quality data for theatre's customers, including but not limited to: PPM (line claims), Warranty and Safety. Support annual reduction goal with the Theater and Corporate Quality management teams.
b.Corrective Action, meet agreed upon goals for timeliness and completeness (following 8D process) in corrective action (design) opening and closing of issues.

Experience:
*Minimum of seven to ten years, with at least five in automotive
*Direct experience with leading product development for automotive or power customers
*Demonstrated experience in building and managing small-medium sized development teams
*Management of complex electro-mechanical or electro-acoustical products in an OE environment
*Demonstrated ability to function in a matrix organization
*Successful track record of technical presentation to OEM customers


Travel:
*International travel will be required
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY
*US and internationally based theatre engineering team that supports US customers.
*Engineering Program Managers (EPMs), Project Development Managers (PDMs) and additional engineering personnel that support the theater.

Education
Education:
*BS in Engineering; master's degree in Engineering or Business preferred.