Manager- Off highway and specific application engineering
Timken · Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Industrial Machinery Manufacturing · 501-1,000 employees
About the role
The manager will lead engineering activities across various market segments, including off-highway and aerospace, while driving project efficiency and KPI achievement. They are responsible for mentoring staff, managing the TMP process, and influencing internal and external stakeholders to provide effective technical solutions.
What they look for
Requirements
The role requires a leader with proven experience in managing engineering teams and a strong balance of technical and commercial acumen. Candidates must demonstrate critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the ability to navigate complex international business environments.
Full description
What Timken makes possible begins with you. Those who came before us helped land a man on the moon, create the world's infrastructure, and introduce renewable energy alternatives. Now you can join the Timken team to write your own unique story and help drive what's next.
A career at Timken means you can have an immediate impact doing Work That Matters to the world— improving the efficiency of today's industrial equipment and preparing for the future of motion on our planet and beyond. New employees can start contributing right away, and there are many opportunities to advance your career at your own pace. Join our global team of 19,000 people in 45 countries, and start helping our customers push the limits of what's possible in their world of motion.
Responsibilities:
- Position should be autonomous and self-directed; hence assignments are not given as much as they are self-triggered.
- Manage and direct engineering activities may involve, but not limited: off highway, on highway, aerospace, vertical markets/application, and trans industry projects.
- Maintain a global mindset within market segments to ensure alignment amongst global departments
- Provide focus on key projects and high-value customers’ work
- Handle projects with high complexity
- Review of Customer Engineering projects/work output and metrics to drive department efficiency and KPI achievement
- Contribute and/or develop continuous improvement ideas for products or known applications
- Manage team to develop knowledge or training material for new applications in related market segment when needed
- Drive solutions when situations arise at external customers
- Support the Sales process. For regular technical requests, develop and update working instructions for application engineers to improve effectiveness and efficiency in sales and customer side.
- Present and Influence new solutions/products/prototype advanced or applications requiring development of trade secret or advanced intellectual property
- Resolve conflict that could arise between customer specifications and Timken specs.
- Create and be member of approval committee for new standards for product release, edit technical documents
- Influence internal stakeholders and external customer contacts with a solution that meets the needs of all parties concerned
- Manage TMP process to guide and direct development of staff through coaching, mentoring and leadership
- Enable and promote associate development and attainment of technical competency
- Recruit and hire
Requirements:
- Demonstrate talent in developing and leading a group of engineers
- Business acumen required to maintain engineering application needs and commercial viability balance
- International Management and business exposure
- Demonstrate critical thinking and analysis as well as problem solving skills
All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.
