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Engineering Manager

Mueller Water Products

Engineering Manager

National
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    About 25% of the world’s drinking water leaks out of aging underground pipes before reaching anyone’s tap.  Echologics is helping to lead a global charge to change this through technological innovation.  Our innovative technology and services allow water utilities to manage their pipelines based on reliable information about their condition simply by placing sensors on valves and fire hydrants.  With custom-engineered technologies for detecting and locating leaks, as well as distinguishing healthy pipes from degraded ones, Echologics offers our customers a truly unique set of information-gathering tools.

    Echologics is currently searching for an Engineering Manager for our Toronto Office.  

    Why Echologics:

    • A DIVISION OF MUELLER WATER PRODUCTS, A LARGE AND STABLE US COMPANY LISTED ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE AND WITH OVER 150 YEARS OF HISTORY
    • Cutting edge technology within the niche industry of leak detection
    • Best Smart Water Solution 2015 & 2016 at the Smart Water Summit for EchoShore-DX
    • Innovate@IWS 2016 award for next generation technologies in water sustainability
    • Outside the box thinking colleagues with whom to collaborate and have fun
    • Energetic, diverse, and inclusive culture
    • Diverse global network of resources with visibility and support of a unique regional client base
    • Demonstrated record of developing team members professionally and personally to reach their career goals and potential

     

    The Engineering Manager will be required to actively practice hands-on management and be responsible for all Echologics electronics hardware, embedded software (firmware), system software, and product validation (QA) activities. This will also include internal developers as well as technical and project management of third parties (contractors). This role will require the candidate to be a key participant in system/solution design to translate customer/market needs into a fully realized product and/or services solution.

    The ideal candidate will also be responsible for development of all projects/products including: generating and maintaining project schedules, prioritizing projects and balancing workload across the department, participation in cross-function teams, as well as collaborating with manufacturing operations to introduce new products.

    Additionally, this role will require working very closely with Product Management, Operations, and all cross functional organizations. The Engineering Manager in this role will require proficiency in communication and be able to maintain a professional demeanor to ensure all R&D efforts are well orchestrated.

    KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

    • Manage, direct and review all technical work of team members.
    • Manage development of detailed system and design requirements
    • Coordinate with all internal/external stakeholders for effective technology development and delivery.
    • Manage staff including coaching/mentoring, performance management and hiring decisions.
    • Establish and manage processes, tools and skill sets required to provide the most effective and timely delivery of all projects.

    Provides advice on technical problems and review project work for technical accuracy and adequacy.

    New product development project management, including planning and tracking:

    • Track and prioritize work requests for the Engineering R&D department
    • Establishes development process and standards both by action and written document(s).
    • Identifies and promotes use of tools and techniques to maximize productivity while minimizing time to market

    Manages all hardware developments; including product architecture, schematic entry, COGs estimates, part selection and second sourcing, support for PCB design and prototype fabrication, and product verification.

    • Support for assigned products to reduce costs, improve production yields, and/or resolve sourcing issues.

    • Manages all embedded software (firmware) and DSP/signal processing developments; including product architecture, firmware partitioning, generation of design documentation, Generation of BSP and drivers including self-diagnostics coding and code reviews/inspections, HW/FW and system integration.

    • Manages all system software, including; generation of design documentation, coding and code reviews/inspections, software and system integration.

    • Managing product and system validation and system integration, including; creating and maintaining system test infrastructure including bug/anomaly tracking and test framework, generation of functional test and load/performance testing automation, compiling test cases for each feature, along with creating and tracking test plans and their execution.

    • Support the product development and test personnel during Alpha, Beta, First Article, Product and System Acceptance tests of new products and systems.

    • Work in compliance with the Mueller Water Products Code of Conduct and all Environmental, Health and Safety regulations.

    • Other duties as assigned by management.

    REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

    • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Applied Science

    • 10 years of overall hardware or firmware engineering experience and 5 year team management experience

    • System engineering experience where software, hardware and firmware engineering works together to create a solution

    REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND OTHER COMPETENCIES:

    Ability to apply mature Engineering knowledge in:

    • Planning and conducting key projects
    • Developing the scope and co-ordination of complex projects
    • Ability to develop detailed design requirements from the market requirements and identify critical to success factors

    Proven track record of consistent delivery of projects on-time, on budget and in scope

    • Ability to modify established processes, devise new approaches, and apply existing criteria in new ways to assigned projects.

    • Ability to stay current with job knowledge and draw conclusions from comparative situations.

    • Strong Technical and Project Management skills

    • Good verbal, written, and presentation communications skills.

    • Broad technical knowledge encompassing hardware, firmware, DSP/signal processing, system software, and product validation (QA) including:

    • Hardware development for signal processing with embedded processors and DSPs

    • Firmware and DSP development for signal processing applications

    • Design and development of object oriented system software application on Windows server and web applications including SQL database

    • Experienced with QA tools and techniques, bug tracking systems, test design and execution, test case management tools,

    • Knowledge of some or all of the following quality assurance methods: unit, integration, regression, user interface automated testing, load/performance testing, ALT, HALT & Regulatory testing.

    • Knowledge of low power battery applications and wireless communications systems a plus

    THESE ARE CONSIDERED ASSETS:

    • Masters in Engineering Management or MBA desirable.
    • Experience in communication or sensor industry

     

    Echologics is committed to providing accommodation for people with disabilities.  Accommodation is available, upon request, for candidates participating in the recruitment process.

     

    We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for interview will be contacted.

    Required Skills Required Experience

  • Industry
    Manufacturing