Steelcase Looking for Leader, Product Engineering Team at Grand Rapids, MI Full Time

We are hiring a Leader, Product Engineering Team to plan and manage engineering design and product development for specific product groups. You will delegate assignments, set direction, and review engineering work associated with product projects. Additionally, you will ensure both new and current product designs meet quality and cost criteria through systematic and innovative development processes. Along with your staff of product engineers, designers, and drafters, you will collaborate with cross-functional leaders to set and achieve strategic direction.

Who You Are:

• Experience designing and costing the following component typologies: comfort surfaces, mechanisms, metal components, and plastic parts (blow molded, injection molded, thermal formed, etc.)

• Possess comprehensive knowledge of engineering, product design, and manufacturing

• Managerial skills planning, organizing, and controlling to ensure quality and timely product engineering and implementation.

• Comfortable collaborating with key stakeholders to assure that design solutions are supported within function

• Ensure the product development process is followed and supported by best practices

• Demonstrate problem solving techniques that are applied in timely manner (risk identification and mitigation/conflict identification and escalation)

• Demonstrate the ability to evaluate system components and integration with supporting functions

• Foster cross-functional relationships (project management, design, product marketing, operations, etc.)

• Align or evaluate product and/or user requirements, insights for identification of project scope, and build the technical specifications, and evaluate the product accordingly

• Consult, advise, and solicit usage of appropriate technology, platforms, systems and frameworks, test methodology from team to advance product design.

• Demonstrate the ability to lead/own process improvement initiatives during development processes

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering

• Minimum 7 to 10 years experience preferred in PD&L

• Previous leadership experience required

Why People Choose to Work with Us:

At Steelcase, we put people at the center of everything we do. We understand the role of work and believe that it can bring meaning and purpose to the lives of our customers and our employees. We prioritize supporting our employees both in and out of work, in all aspects of their lives. When we bring our talents together, we make a positive lasting impact through our work and communities.

Who We Are:

Organizations around the world trust Steelcase to help them create places that help people work better, be inspired, and accomplish more.

We design, manufacture, and partner with other leading organizations to provide architecture, furniture, and technology solutions- accessible through a network of channels, including over 800 Steelcase dealer locations. Steelcase is a global, industry-leading, publicly-traded company with fiscal year 2021 revenue of $2.6 billion.

What Matters to Us:

More than qualifications, we’re looking for talent and potential. We are proud to have a diverse and inclusive workforce, and we’re always looking to improve our global community. We value applicants who are comfortable interacting with people different from themselves, building mutual respect and positive relationships. We invite people from all backgrounds and genders to apply. If we can make the application process easier through accommodation, please email us at [email protected].

Steelcase provides employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, creed, genetic information, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or veteran status and bases all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. We are proud to be recognized for our inclusive workforce by the Corporate Equality Index for the past nine years.

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