Manager Engineering

Main Purpose of Role:

• Be a creative and ambitious manager who leads a team of engineering professional to deliver a world-class quality and well-designed products for the company and customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Manages a product development team and assign tasks to engineers
• Lead the team and provide right directions on those product development activities
• Drive the teams and engineers to develop product from concept to shipment
• Train up engineers, develop team capability, cultivate team spirit and foster potential talents
• Strive to optimize design-to-value, product appearance, structure, processes, performance, play experience, quality, safety, reliability, cost and schedule
• Partner with vendors to improve production efficiency and sustainability in terms of design for manufacturing enhancement, automation and new technologies
• Manage project risks, drive problem solving and mitigate impacts
• Liaise with multi-disciplinary team members, global colleagues, inland and overseas vendors
• Onsite review pilots running and production lines for inland or overseas manufacturing vendors/suppliers
• Assist in identifying project workflow improvement and drive efficiencies
• Track team KPIs, company strategies and vendors performance
• Carry out budget planning and resource management
• Drive for lesson learnt and sharing of best practice within and beyond the team

Technical Skills Requirement

• Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience in product development and management, preferably 3+ years managerial experience in toy industry
• Degree in Mechanical engineering, Industrial or Manufacturing engineering, Automation or related discipline.
• Have relevant experiences in quality, costing and engineering.
• Good in toys product structural and mechanism design, materials selection, manufacturing process.
• Technical knowledge of delivering products by means of digital development and advanced manufacturing process is preferred.
• Any robotic engineering experience is beneficial.
• Preferably demonstrated product development experience with partners/vendors based in US, China, Vietnam and India.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, good command of spoken and written English
• Good communication in Mandarin/Chinese is preferred
• Mature, self-motivated, detail-minded, responsible & able to work independently
• Frequent travel is required locally and overseas

Department

• Product Development