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Description

Platform Leads serve as the business and technical heads of the engineering platforms.  Through the successful management of a group of engineers, technologists and designers, the platform leads will deliver high quality designs within budget and schedule.  This is a leadership position that involves management, design, project planning, estimating; a certain level of customer relations and interfacing with the rest of the company.  A successful candidate will own the engineering and product development of that particular platform.  A truly successful candidate will have expertise in the particular field of the platform.

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
1.Create and manage engineering teams for successfully delivering projects to internal customers, i.e. manufacturing or other platforms.
2.Develop, mentor and retain high quality design staff.
3.Work with customer support and provide technical support for field issues as necessary.
4.Identifies areas for improving cost, quality, feature offerings, etc. to business development leads
5.Identify and mitigate technical and business risk related to the engineering design of products.
6.Develop design concepts and directions for project teams that will create long-term profitability of the platform.

QUALIFICATIONS
Professional Engineer or Technologist with 10+ years experience
Extensive experience in relevant design and design tools like Solidworks
Excellent communication skills  written and verbal
Extensive product/project knowledge in the platform area