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Manager, Controls at Baltimore Aircoil Company in Jessup, Maryland

Posted in General Business 30+ days ago.

Type: Full-Time





Job Description:

POSITION PURPOSE

The Global Engineering Manager – Controls (hereafter ‘Manager, Controls’) will lead a group of Software (Firmware) and Hardware engineers to develop Controls solutions, and to lend technical support/guide various engineering/manufacturing groups within BAC. This includes responsibility for Controls features and cost, schedule management of projects assigned within group, and relationship management with other leaders around the business. This individual will ensure all Controls on BAC products meet or exceed performance and regulatory standards (both internal and external). Interaction will be from a technical perspective to the leadership counterparts in engineering management, product management, manufacturing, supply chain, and other functions, as needed. This position is a hands-on engineering management role that can perform a wide variety of tasks with minimal supervision, using technical and administrative skills.  Work shall be done independently and as part of project teams.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS


  • Leadership Skills


    • Effective communication and motivation, written and verbal, across a globally diverse organization (engineering, marketing, supply-chain, etc), both technical and non-technical, to secure alignment and collaboration.

    • Ability to coach, motivate, develop, and leverage strengths of a technical team with varying levels of experience, to maximize current and future output

    • Ability to understand and translate customer/marketing requirements into project scopes, timelines, hardware arrangements, and firmware structure

    • Strong time management and product development skills


  • Technical Skills:


    • Work without direct guidance or direction from others and manage complex situations requiring resource and trade off analysis.

    • Experienced with PLCs, and coding in Structured Text and C/++

    • Experienced in developing test plans for software, firmware and hardware

    • Basic knowledge of digital hardware

    • Ability to manage a group budget

    • Jira, Github, Matlab; Intermediate Excel, Powerpoint, Word skills

    • Basic Project Management skills; Experience working in a scrum environment


  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or equiv, graduate level certificate or degree preferred

  • 10 + years of Controls engineering experience, 3+ years managing others

  • Key Competencies:


    • Customer/client focus

    • Cost/Time awareness

    • Technical knowledge

    • Ability to work independently and in a team

    • Ability to remain flexible enough to accommodate for changes in scope and direction

    • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to leverage previous experience

    • Communication proficiency


 NATURE & SCOPE

The Manager, Controls reports to the Global Engineering Director – Core Technology & Support Systems.  S/he will interact with other managers in the U.S. and around the world. The Manager, Controls will lead efforts in designing and optimizing controls for cooling products and in meeting regulatory compliance. Direct reports include engineers.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Leading


  • Lead the Controls team for the on-time/on-scope/on-budget/ high quality completion of development projects, sustaining activities, and all items related to the Controls category, that improve the performance of BAC products

  • Instill a culture of meeting-commitments, fun, curiosity, and process-improvement

  • Work closely with Engineering and Marketing Platform Managers to ensure Controls projects support the multi-year product roadmaps

  • Drive urgency in project schedules and accountability for establishing and achieving key project performance metrics that meet the organization’s needs

  • Provide technical expertise to the organization—either by self, leveraging team, or leveraging outside experts—in industry best practices for control algorithm development / testing

  • Define overall software and controls development processes, design strategies, common architectures, and reusability across multiple products/projects

  • Develop strategy, policies, and guidance to the global organization on how the business can/should provide regional support

  • Support and actively participate in the development of direct reports through training, mentoring, and succession development. May recommend direct reports for promotion within the engineering hierarchy.

  • Perform administrative duties, including approval of expense reports and IT requests, performance appraisals for employees under direct supervision

  • Create, maintain and improve the BAC Controls Standards

  • Serve as scrum/agile Product Owner on development projects

Executing
  • Follow industry best practice norms to ensure robust software design

  • Use modeling tools such as MATLAB, Simulink, Simscape, and Stateflow

  • Collaborate with Hardware and Firmware Engineers to optimize and implement next-generation control algorithms

  • Peer review software and controls designs/source code

  • Provide strong technical design guidance related to test script development and execution design, and share best practices to the organization

  • Work independently to design, model, simulate and test control algorithms and applications

  • Adhere to the Company’s Code of Conduct and Business Ethics standards.
  • Design and qualify new solutions to applicable regulatory standards such as UL and CE
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Travel occasionally to Global BAC Design Centers (Shanghai, Jessup, Heist), and occasionally as needed to manufacturing facilities, conferences, industry councils, etc; combined up to 20% including internationally
WORKING CONDITIONS

  • Working hours are the standard BAC 40 hours per week (8:30am-5:00pm with flexible start/finish times allowed)

  • Travel, both domestic and international, can be up to 35% of the time

  • Occasional evening/weekend hours are required, although can often be done from home with the use of a portable computer.

  • Primarily Sedentary Activity in the office will be experienced; however periodic travel to R&D Lab and BAC manufacturing facilities with assembly (medium work) is required.

  • Must have close visual acuity to work with computer systems and virtual models

  • Will typically be subjected to only indoor conditions; however on occasional trips to BAC Lab or manufacturing facilities, the worker may experience heat, cold, humidity, and noise.





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