Designs, validates and brings new products to market. Specifies precise new product functional requirements. Designs, tests and integrates components to produce final designs. Evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost, reliability and safety. Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans. Creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials. Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability. Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
Nordson Electronic Solutions, a global leader in precision dispense, is seeking an experienced and highly motivated individual to join our team in Taiwan as a Sr Manager, Product Development Engineering. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we are looking for candidates who share that same commitment.
Summary of the role
As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment, where your ideas and contributions will be valued and respected.
The Senior Manager, Product Development Engineering will successfully lead the innovation and execution of our NPD hardware development in Taiwan for the Electronics Solutions division of Nordson. This includes leading the development and execution of our product development roadmaps while working closely with our customers to meet and exceed their expectations in regard to on-time delivery, performance, and quality. The Senior Manager, Product Development Engineering will partner with the commercial and strategy teams to deepen our penetration of our Top customers and strategic partner accounts. As part of the leadership team working on strategic growth and operating plan execution, the Senior Manager, Product Development Engineering will work to position the division, its capabilities and talent, to deliver innovation for our products and customers for many years to come.
Role and Responsibilities
- Plans the development activities for a new product development team.
- Participates with other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives.
- Participates in development of methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people.
- Ensures budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
- Regularly interacts with executives/senior managers and/or major customers. Interactions frequently involve special skills, such as negotiating with customers or management or attempting to influence senior level leaders regarding matters of significance to the organization.
- Directs and controls the activities of a broad functional area through other department managers and/or technical leads.
- Coordinates the system level analysis of interfaces, including mechanical, electrical, software and firmware.
- Typically, will also manage a specific engineering discipline team, in addition to leading a project or program.
- May also coordinate the delivery of customer requested customization ensuring overall system level performance of the modifications/custom features.
- Coordinates and leads resources across global teams as-needed for programs/projects
- Other duties may be assigned as required.
Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelors degree required, Master’s University degree preferred in Engineering, plus 10 or more years of management experience.
- Demonstrated negotiation, relationship management, facilitation, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to establish and maintain high level relationships with end customers.
- Broad experience and practical application of system level interface determination and specification
- Strategic and critical thinking abilities, strong analytical skills, and financial acumen.
- Proven leadership skills including team building, collaborating, accountability, strategic and innovative thinking.
- Strong decision-making skills in response to high pressure situations.
- Strong project management skills with ability to plan sequence of events, assess critical path, and actively develop mitigations
- Results oriented approach focused on developing and building high performance teams.
- Proven leadership skills including team building, collaborating, accountability, strategic and innovative thinking.
- Ability to manage effectively at all levels, communicate a clear and compelling vision and influence others to support timely achievement of initiatives and goals.
Office Environment
Manufacturing environment. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear, occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms; requires close vision ability. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds with assistance. Noise level is usually moderate. May require ear protection for comfort in some cases. The employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles and some toxic or caustic chemicals. The employee is occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock.
Travel
Estimated: 20%
About Nordson Electronics Solutions
Nordson Electronics Solutions is a trusted surface treatment and precision fluid dispensing equipment supplier within the global electronics manufacturing industry, working closely with semiconductor, printed circuit board, and precision assembly manufacturers. By joining our team today, you will help us bring innovative ideas to life. Nordson Electronics Solutions is a global team that works to create machines and systems that improve the electronics and semiconductor manufacturing process. We offer a supportive culture in a growing and dynamic work environment. Whether you're just beginning your career or you're a seasoned professional, there's a place for you to belong at Nordson Electronics Solutions. We offer hourly and salary positions in production, maintenance, customer service, quality, engineering, and more. We actively invest in our teams to help you build your skillsets and advance your career.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- Master's degree in Engineering
- 10+ years of management experience
- Experience leading new product development for hardware/electronics
- Experience using CAD and CAE systems to model designs and produce engineering drawings
- Experience defining system-level mechanical, electrical, software and firmware interfaces
- Experience developing and executing product testing, fitness-for-use testing, and process validation plans
- Experience creating material part specifications and bills of materials (BOM)
- Experience collaborating with internal manufacturing teams and contract manufacturers to optimize designs for manufacturability
- Strong project management skills (critical path assessment, sequencing, mitigations)
- Demonstrated negotiation, relationship management, facilitation, and decision-making skills
- Proven leadership, team building, and ability to manage and influence at all levels
- Strategic and critical thinking abilities with financial acumen
- Ability to establish and maintain high level relationships with customers and executives
- Willingness/ability to travel approximately 20%
Nordson Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nordson Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Nordson Corporation.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) features automatic enrollment at 6%, a 50% match on up to 6% of pay, and an additional 3% company contribution for eligible U.S. employees even without employee contributions. Feedback suggests this retirement structure is above what many mid-size manufacturers offer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays and a typical year-end shutdown between Christmas and New Year’s at many U.S. locations expand time off beyond standard PTO. Feedback suggests this shutdown is a distinctive work-life perk, though availability can vary by site or business unit.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Volunteer release time and a 3:1 charitable gift-matching program are offered alongside recognition programs, tuition assistance, and community initiatives. Feedback suggests these elements add value beyond core insurance and PTO.
Nordson Corporation Insights
What We Do
Nordson is a team of 7,300 global employees thriving in an environment where they are supported and encouraged to be their best. Working side by side, we build meaningful connections with each other and our customers. Together, we deliver products that are solutions, and they’re likely touching your life every day. Have you ever changed a diaper? Opened a box of cereal? Used a smart phone or driven a car? Then we’ve already met. At Nordson, we take pride in being an outstanding corporate citizen and strongly believe in sharing our success with the communities where our employees live and work. Whether you’re working in one of our labs, offices or manufacturing facilities, your efforts will enable our customers to succeed and our company to continuously improve and grow. We engineer, manufacture and market differentiated products and systems used for precision dispensing and processing in a variety of end markets, from packaging to transportation and medical to electronics. Founded in 1954, we operate under the values of integrity, respect for people, customer passion, energy and excellence. Nordson is headquartered in the United States in Westlake, Ohio, and has direct operations in more than 30 countries to support our products and systems with application expertise and a direct global sales and service organization
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