Director Of Bot Hardware Engineering

Director of Bot Hardware Engineering

Full Time - Exempt

As the Director of Bot Hardware Engineering for Alert Innovation, you will lead new product development teams to deliver highly innovative robotics and automation solutions. You lead by example and take ownership of managing highly complex, technical projects being developed by a diverse group of engineering talents. As the lead for multiple hardware projects, you will partner with world-class corporate partners to lead a team to invent, design, develop and transition products to manufacturing.

You have demonstrated technical depth and effective leadership skills. You have experience mentoring, developing consensus and accountability, defining work processes, and developing / driving schedules to help your team stay aligned, appropriately prioritized, and working efficiently. You are equally comfortable as a leader, technical contributor, and mentor in a growing team.

In this role, you will lead a cross-functional technical team through the complete development cycle to invent, design, develop, and release to manufacturing complex electromechanical based projects. How you will lead:

• Provide high level technical and people leadership to project teams
• Develop and maintain hardware technical vision leveraging input from customers, vendors, or other technical or non-technical stakeholders
• Investigate new technologies
• Drive delivery of aggressive goals by managing project schedule, product features and performance, cost and resources effectively through a phase-gate process
• Collect and drive improvement in metrics related to quality, efficiency, on time delivery
• Work with others to build and maintain schedules, keep team aware of dependencies and target milestones
• Identify and communicate risks and associated mitigations
• Work closely with the product team lead to manage ever-changing customer priorities
• Provide clarity regarding standard work (develop guidelines, templates, processes, etc)
• Partner with the software teams to document and detail hardware requirements
• You are passionate about technical / leadership challenges, and eager to broaden your skillset
• You can leverage the collective intelligence of a team and develop meaningful consensus
• You know how to define and maintain project plans that simultaneously drive innovation and continuous improvement
• You exhibit dedication and commitment to your work that makes others want you on their team / leading their team
• You take great pride in your work and strive to create robust solutions
• You are humble, teachable, and thoughtful
• You enjoy teaching and mentoring others
  

What do you need?

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering Discipline (preferably mechanical or related) with a minimum of 10 years leading cross-functional product development teams solving challenging technical projects.
• Experience developing and bringing high volume electro-mechanical products to market, skilled in DFM, DFT.
• Direct experience leading projects from initial concept through design and release. Must have experience successfully managing schedule, budget and project resources.
• Exceptional project management and communication skills written and verbal - are essential.
• High energy, drive, commitment, self-initiative and perseverance are required with a demonstrated track record of personal technical accomplishments.
• Prior experience with solid modeling, including drawing preparation. (CREO preferred)
• Detailed knowledge of standard drafting process and ASMEY14.5, Geometric Tolerancing & Dimensioning.
• Ability to successfully work in a collaborative team environment and constructively influence team decisions
• Demonstrated servant leader, experience transitioning individual contributors to successful leads
• Self-motivated and capable of working through ambiguity
• Excellent critical thinking and analytical/problem solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate across all levels of the organization

VALUES

All members of Alert Innovation practice the following values as part of their daily responsibilities and model these values as she/he leads or supports their teams.

The Golden Rule: Extraordinarily powerful in its simplicity and depth: Treat others as you would want to be treated.

The Power of Person: The contribution of every single person in a company is important, and the performance of the entire company can only be maximized when every person strives to achieve his/her full potential and to contribute to the best of his/her ability.

The Power of Team: The Power of Person becomes amplified exponentially when a group of people working effectively as a team create performance synergy, whereby the capacity to perform as a team is much greater than the sum of the individual members capacities.

The Power of Truth: We strive to see the world as it is, not as we want or imagine it to be, because only then can we make it better. This core value manifests itself through questioning, probing, testing, measuring, validating, verifying, proving, listening with an open mind, and making fact-based decisions. It also fosters transparency and honesty with others, as well as self-examination and self-honesty.

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

Alert Innovation offers a highly competitive salary for each job family and level within the Boston-area market in which we are based. As part of our Power of Truth value we practice salary transparency, so you know you are being compensated fairly relative to other team members performing similar roles in our organization.
Every employee is granted stock options which vest over four years.
Full time employees receive a generous benefits package starting on your first date of employment:

• No fixed limits on the number of workdays that you can take off for personal reasons, including vacations. You take what you need keeping in mind the demands of your teams workload.
• 9 Paid Holidays.
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and 401K + company match.
• Tuition & work-related training reimbursement programs.
• Employee Assistance Program to assist with emotional health, parenting, eldercare, nutrition, legal and financial consultation needs.

The above list is only a summary of some of our benefits and is not meant to be a comprehensive explanation. To hear more, please visit: https://www.alertinnovation.com/boston-robotics-jobs/

Alert Innovation is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.