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The Rail Automation Director of Engineering will reside in Louisville, KY and report directly to the Rail Automation Business Unit Lead. The ideal candidate will have a strong signaling background within the industry and have proven leadership (manager of managers) skills to drive growth and achievement within the business.
This role plans, manages, and oversees the Engineering Organization (200+ employees). The Director of Engineering drives change management to a multi-disciplined, high performance engineering organization. This role provides business leadership aimed at driving high engineering performance and effectiveness while delivering reduced engineering costs.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: performance management, coaching and development, budgets, establishing best practices, and driving continuous improvement. Inspires and motivates "virtual" teams across multiple locations to instill a high-performance culture.
People/Leadership -
Recognized leader by peers and management in the accomplishment of complex projects such as redesign efforts, design reviews, investigations and studies including work flow definition, reporting relationships, scope, schedule and cost to obtain optimum effectiveness and customer satisfaction.
Demonstrates leadership and responsiveness toward customer satisfaction and improved delivery of services.
Demonstrates advanced understanding and application of management approaches for work direction, motivation, and performance management.
Interpret high level targets and metrics into terms of department and individual deliverables.
Aligns policies/products and development efforts with company strategies.
Motivate resource personnel that are not direct reports to support projects.
Looked to for both technical and organizational coaching and mentoring.
Demonstrates ability to work effectively with all other colleagues.
Recognized as a leader in problem solving, both technical and organizational.
- Visibility -
Strong presenter at customer or group meetings.
Coordinate customer communications on projects (investigations, implementations, field dispositions).
Effectively lead efforts that represent high priority issues or opportunities to the company.
Effective in communicating pertinent information to upper management succinctly and accurately.
Has high level of respect and cooperation among managers and key players/managers in interface groups.
- Financials -
Establishes, maintains and adjusts project budgets.
Generates estimates of personnel loading for department.
- Innovation -
Consistently identifies opportunities for improvement, both organizationally and technically
Effectively champions and enacts others innovations were beneficial to the company
Qualified Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the Unites States. Qualified Applicants will not require employer sponsored work authorization now or in the future for employment in the United States.
Siemens encourages qualified long-term unemployed individuals to apply for open positions.
Offer of employment with Siemens is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background check and drug screen, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
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