Role Overview:
Ready to tackle the challenges of product development and tapping into new markets? KCnG is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Lead R&D Engineer for the investigation, evaluation, and application engineering of new products/processes. You will be leading the research, design, discovery, and approval process working closely with OEM’s, engineers, supply chain, and plant teams. A strong background in machine vision and AI is desired.
Responsibilities:
- Leading and managing a team of technicians
- Working with the team to prioritize projects, determine collaboration opportunities, leveraging best practices, and manufacturing technologies.
- Providing regular communication on projects and status updates, in addition to work in progress and future resource management.
- Tracking and reporting monthly metrics.
- Optimization of existing processes to improve production capability and reproducibility
- Develop action plans for resolving technical challenges.
- Direct the timely completion of technical projects relating to product improvement, product maintenance, manufacturing improvement, and commercialization support initiatives through individual contributors.
- Responsible for the management and development of technical staff which includes timely completion of performance appraisals, interviewing, and hiring.
- Collaborate with Internal Engineering Team, Quality, Production
- Maintain safe operating procedures through complete knowledge of safety rules and lab procedures.
- Ensure projects are prioritized with Technical Manager, marketing, tracked, and executed on time.
- Contribute to the identification of the needs in terms of resources, equipment, and investments
- Establish detail break down of the activities to meet the milestones
- Follow activities and spending of project within the allowed budget
- Additional duties as assigned.
Requirements Technical competencies:
- Must be legally authorized to work in the country for which you are applying for employment (without now or in the future needing sponsorship for employment work visa and/or permanent residence status).
- Bachelor’s in engineering is necessary
- Masters-level degree and/or a PhD in engineering, machine vision, artificial intelligence or equivalent is a plus
- Experience working with products and technologies
- Understanding different chemistries in development of metals
- Coaching through project completions
- Achieving measures and / or metrics
- Travel Requirements 10%
Experience:
- The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in an engineering environment, preferably focused on manufacturing
- Candidates should be able to demonstrate their ability to work within a cross-functional environment (plant, OEM’s, suppliers)
- Proven track record in launching successful innovations
- In addition, the successful candidate will show an attraction to industrial challenges, demonstrate competencies in R & D; theoretical, data analysis
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $90,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Education:
Work Location: One location