Chief Engineer Commercial Vehicles OEM

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Chief Engineer Commercial Vehicles OEM

Stoneridge Electronics Division is looking for a Chief Engineer Commercial Vehicles OEM to our growing business with real opportunities to influence to the success of the business. The position holder will report directly to the Vice President Engineering. He/she will initially have responsibility for appr. 20 employees mainly located in Barneveld and Solna. The position holder leads the group of system architects, system integrators, configuration managers and functional safety engineers leading to defined technology in product families, and is responsible for the structural design, development, and deployment of the Stoneridge’s products and services. The Chief Engineer defines system solutions based on user/client needs, cost, and required integration with existing applications, systems, or platforms. He/she works on advanced, complex technical projects or business issues requiring state of the art technical or industry knowledge, and research, identifies, selects, and tests technology products required for solution delivery. Establishes, implements, and documents the technology integration or migration strategies. The position requires staying on top of the industry trend and new technologies for the system architecture.

Responsibilities:
The position holder leads the system architecture group to translate the requirements from Stoneridge stakeholders, product and service requirements into system and subsystem technical solutions, thereby creating the system architecture of products, platforms, and services. Leads the team to accomplish all below mentioned duties.

Leads the integration of Stoneridge stakeholders, product and service requirements into system and subsystem requirements.

Identifies key system features needed to support key value proposition attributes.

Performs/facilitates trade-off analysis between various system attributes and communicates results. Acts as the final single point of accountability for trade-off decisions

Partitions proposed solutions into appropriate subsystems/functional decompositions.

Together with the appropriate technical experts, decomposes system architecture decisions into functional, optical, hardware, software and mechanical roadmaps.

Develops optical/hardware/software/mechanical roadmaps based on the future technology and product roadmaps.

Gives input to our advanced engineering and embraces/implements the results of advanced technology projects.

Reviews/accepts the result of validation testing to ensure that final product performance is in line with previously defined requirements.

Meets with key suppliers and stays abreast of developments in the electronics/semiconductor space.

Manage the form proliferation resulting from the requirements analysis and the functional decomposition by partnering with sub-system/module engineering teams

Communicates decisions in a timely and effective manner.

Enforces process discipline around the QFD, Systems Analysis, Road mapping and Model Based design Process.

Candidate profile / requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline is required: Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics or Computer Science Preferred. Advanced degree preferred.

Adaptable and flexible thinker able to synthesize ideas from many sources without letting pride of authorship become an obstacle to achieving the greater good.

Strong presentation/writing/communication skills.

Extensive experience with Systems Engineering/Requirements Management including Requirements Development and Elucidation, Requirements Definition, Traceability and Validation.

Deep understanding of systems engineering models, software development, electronics development.

Extensive experience with the process of product development and associated tools/standards/guidelines.

Deep technical expertise in at least one domain relevant to the company: connectivity, vision and safety, etc.

Direct experience with FuSa (ISO 26262) and developing safety systems for the various markets we serve (Commercial Vehicle, Buses).

Experience in at least one of the three main product line areas (ADAS, Driver Information Systems, Connectivity Systems).

Ability to rapidly convert from non-commercial vehicle technology background into this leadership role (if not from the automotive sector).

And the ability to rapidly / mental flexibility to work across all three product lines simultaneously.

Direct experience with SPICE with preferred ASPICE and the deployment of.

Direct experience with Agile principles and the deployment of.

Strong Project Management Experience / Development experience for leading and managing complex projects across multiple sites simultaneously.

Direct experience with Model Based Design.

Strong leadership skills and demonstrate our Leadership style: Lives our values, instills trust, values difference and possesses interpersonal savvy.

Thinks and Acts Strategically: Possesses Business Insight, Customer Focus. Is capable of dealing with ambiguity.

Builds Organizational Capability: collaborates effectively, able to give constructive and valuable feedback, effective communicator, understands how to build core competencies in an organization in a manner that creates long term capability rather than addressing short term problems.

Achieves Results through Self and Others: Able to leverage the company’s scale. Willing to lead when the situation calls for it and to encourage others to do so as well. Establishes clear goals and supporting processes/metrics. Possesses a continuous improvement mind set. Is also able to drive discontinuous change when required.

Managerial Courage: Able to reach decisions based on technical facts and maintain the vision despite the unhappiness of individual stakeholders.