XMA’s Director of Engineering is an essential player in the success and sustainability of XMA’s existing and future business. The incumbent will manage and lead a team of RF/Microwave Design Engineers, Technicians, and other engineering-oriented roles that will focus on passive components such as coaxial attenuators and terminations, power dividers and couplers for both commercial and military applications. XMA’s primary focus is to advance future technologies through disruptive RF design, and we need visionaries to help achieve this! Reporting to the General Manager, this position serves as a member of the leadership team.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for successfully leading the engineering team; Including establishing departmental
standards, priorities and output expectations. - Planning and assigning tasks to engineering and technical teams, overseeing project logistics
and ensuring that projects are completed within budget and on schedule. - Actively participating in the development of products that will meet or exceed the customers’
needs. This includes, calculating the circuit design, generating a physical layout and drawings,
defining dependencies required of the mechanical packaging, and understanding the limitations
of the processes that will be used in production. - Expected to work closely with other team members to transfer the design, as needed, into
detailed drawings and procedures that are required in order to successfully build and test the
products; this includes builds within engineering and full rate production. - Ensure resources to create and support documentation required for failure analysis, ATP’s,
QTP’s and manufacturing work instructions. The documentation will articulate clearly defined
intent and scope, methods used to test and analyze, and precise conclusion. - Responsible for providing cost estimates for new products, or existing product redesign, based
on engineering resources, labor and materials. - Exhibit a strong background in RF mechanical packaging and processes.
- Requires interpersonal skills to work across multiple departments to support operations and key
initiatives in the most effective and efficient manner. - Develop KPI and other risk management factors to objectively evaluate risk.
- Understand, adhere to and support all facets of the New Product Introduction and Development
(NPID) procedure. - Serve as a lead Design Engineer on projects as deemed necessary
- Lead, mentor, and motivate engineering team to ensure department goals are met.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Competencies:
- Strong leadership and team management skills.
- Strong technical capabilities
- Effective project management and organizational skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Problem Solving / Analytical
- Time Management
- Initiative
- Successful relationship building.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Direct supervision and leadership of exempt and non-exempt employees
- Responsible for interviewing, hiring and training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; performance management.
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, electrical engineering, or related field, or equivalent
experience. - Five to seven years of RF/MW engineering experience; leadership experience preferred.
- Knowledge of electromagnetic modeling tools.
- Fundamental knowledge of mechanical design used to implement RF/MW designs.
- Knowledge of thin film sputtering, photolithography and etching required.
Travel:
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally at least 0%-10% of the time.
Equipment/Software:
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications; primarily MS Excel, Word and Power Point.
- Six Sigma Certification (helpful)
- Ability to organize data for analysis and reporting.
- Candidate should have a strong mechanical aptitude.
- Candidate should possess good arithmetic skills.
Physical Demands:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an
employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. - While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The
employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach
with hands and arms. - Must be able to lift to 30 pounds at times.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision,
peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment:
- Part of this job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard
office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. - While performing some duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or
airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The noise level in the work
environment can be loud. - Operate on a 9/80 schedule, a compressed workweek, where we work 9-hour days and have
every other Friday off.
Work Authorization/Security Clearance:
Due to the nature of our business some positions may require US Citizenship.
Employment is contingent upon the completion of background check, satisfactory to XMA Corporation, passing a drug test, execution of XMA’s Non-Solicitation, Confidentiality, and Inventions Agreement, completion of trade compliance screening satisfactory to XMA Corporation, and execution of Amphenol’s Protective Agreement (APA).
AAP/EEO Statement:
XMA Corporation organization is committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally-recognized basis [“protected class”] including, but not limited to: veteran status, uniform service member status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other protected class under federal, state, or local law including the protected classes under New Hampshire law which are summarized below.
In New Hampshire, the following are each a protected class: age, sex (including pregnancy-related conditions and sexual harassment), race, color, marital status (including civil union status), physical or mental disability, religious creed, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic test results, status as a smoker or non-smoker, and military membership (state and federal). This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
