VP Engineering

If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.

With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.

• Develop and implement engineering strategies that align with the company’s goals and objectives.
• Build, lead and mentor a global high performing engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Ensure all engineering activities comply with industry standards, regulations and company policies.
• Understand and apply 80/20 concepts to create focus and alignment.
• Drive the adoption of new technologies and methodologies to enhance product development and manufacturing process.
• Collaborate across the organization to ensure integration of engineering solutions.
• Develop and maintain global new product development processes, systems and management cadence.
• Connect technical strategies and resources across the company to drive impact.
• Facilitate a culture of engagement, talent development and servant leadership.
• Lead product roadmap initiatives and participate in technical design.
• Serve as a technical expert for new product development and product changes.
• Develop overall technology standards and practices and ensure adherence.
• Evaluate and enhance engineering and technological performance.
• Interact with customers and internal stakeholders to determine needs and goals.
• Oversee project delivery, ensuring timely and high-quality execution.
• Effectively lead change within the team and stakeholders.

Key Characteristics

• Demonstrates a level of business and financial acumen to provide solutions that not only solve a problem but also provide value and efficiencies to the organization.
• Delivers high impact communication with the ability to collect complex information and clearly communicate the message to a target audience. Translate concepts and information into understandable messages across all levels of the organization.
• Assesses strengths and weaknesses in self and others to build high-performing teams and implement talent development processes within the Engineering function.
• Proven ability to thrive in a dynamic environment with a focus on innovation, sustainability, growth and driving positive change.
• Manages change and is adaptable to shift focus comfortably. Can decide and act without having the total picture when appropriate.
• Demonstrated ability to handle risk and uncertainty in a timely manner.
• Excellence in collaboration as a leader and a coach. The ability to draw out the best in the team and allow them to grow and succeed as the business achieves its goals.
• Lead with executive presence and develop followership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or related discipline. Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of engineering experience with at least 8 years in a leadership role.
• Global business experience preferred.
• Successful track record of Engineering Leadership experience in industrial manufacturing.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required to successfully execute the responsibilities.

Core Competencies  

• Change Agent: Articulates the need for changes and connects required changes to success in an organization and creates followership to the desired state.
• Results Orientation: Holds self and others accountable. Able to easily multitask to manage competing priorities. Able to set objectives, drive team accountability, and connect to the success of business.
• Agility: Ability to thrive in a complex business. Experience managing a global team-focused P&L with the potential to scale to a larger leadership position.
• People leadership: Track record of hiring and developing “AA” players, developing high performing teams, and building trust, credibility & followership throughout the organization.
• Servant Leadership: Humble, authentic leader who seeks to remove barriers and enable people and the business; puts service, customers, and team before self.
• Owner’s Mindset: Customer orientation with an entrepreneurial spirit of overserving our key customers.
• Data Analysis: Strong analytical problem solving abilities to drive results and solutions.

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws (Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled).

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