Manager, Controls Engineering

POSITION PURPOSE

The Manager– ControlsEngineering, Global (hereafter ‘Manager, Controls’) will lead a group of Software (Firmware) and Hardware engineers to develop Controls solutions, and to lend technical support/guide various engineering/manufacturing groups within BAC. This includes responsibility for Controls features and cost, schedule management of projects assigned within group, and relationship management with other leaders around the business. This individual will ensure all Controls on BAC products meet or exceed performance and regulatory standards (both internal and external). Interaction will be from a technical perspective to the leadership counterparts in engineering management, product management, manufacturing, supply chain, and other functions, as needed. This position is a hands-on engineering management role that can perform a wide variety of tasks with minimal supervision, using technical and administrative skills.  Work shall be done independently and as part of project teams.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Leadership Skills
• • Effective communication and motivation, written and verbal, across a globally diverse organization (engineering, marketing, supply-chain, etc), both technical and non-technical, to secure alignment and collaboration.
  • Ability to coach, motivate, develop, and leverage strengths of a technical team with varying levels of experience, to maximize current and future output
  • Ability to understand and translate customer/marketing requirements into project scopes, timelines, hardware arrangements, and firmware structure
  • Strong time management and product development skills
• Technical Skills:
• • Work without direct guidance or direction from others and manage complex situations requiring resource and trade off analysis.
  • Experienced with PLCs, and coding in Structured Text and C/++
  • Experienced in developing test plans for software, firmware and hardware
  • Basic knowledge of digital hardware
  • Ability to manage a group budget
  • Jira, Github, Matlab; Intermediate Excel, Powerpoint, Word skills
  • Basic Project Management skills; Experience working in a scrum environment
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or equiv, graduate level certificate or degree preferred
• 10 + years of Controls engineering experience, 3+ years managing others
• Key Competencies:
• • Customer/client focus
  • Cost/Time awareness
  • Technical knowledge
  • Ability to work independently and in a team
  • Ability to remain flexible enough to accommodate for changes in scope and direction
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to leverage previous experience
  • Communication proficiency

NATURE & SCOPE

The Manager, Controls reports to the Sr. Manager, SME Engineering.  S/he will interact with other managers in the U.S. and around the world. The Manager, Controls will lead efforts in designing and optimizing controls for cooling products and in meeting regulatory compliance. Direct reports include engineers. The Global Controls team functions as a Center of Excellence (COE) which provides technical stewardship of the discipline across BAC, including standards and methods, and through a matrix model provides technical leadership and governance, without direct reporting authority, over all similar SME resources that exist in other areas of Global & Regional Engineering.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Leading

• Lead the Controls team for the on-time/on-scope/on-budget/ high quality completion of development projects, sustaining activities, and all items related to the Controls category, that improve the performance of BAC products
• Instill a culture of meeting-commitments, fun, curiosity, and process-improvement
• Work closely with Engineering and Marketing Platform Managers to ensure Controls projects support the multi-year product roadmaps
• Drive urgency in project schedules and accountability for establishing and achieving key project performance metrics that meet the organization’s needs

• Provide technical expertise to the organization—either by self, leveraging team, or leveraging outside experts—in industry best practices for control algorithm development / testing

• Provide COE coordination/guidance to Controls engineers on other Global & Regional Engineering teams.
• Define overall software and controls development processes, design strategies, common architectures, and reusability across multiple products/projects
• Support the development of strategy, policies, and guidance to the global organization on how the business can/should provide regional support
• Support and actively participate in the development of direct reports through training, mentoring, and succession development. May recommend direct reports for promotion within the engineering hierarchy.
• Perform administrative duties, including approval of expense reports and IT requests, performance appraisals for employees under direct supervision
• Create, maintain and improve the BAC Controls Standards

Executing

• Follow industry best practice norms to ensure robust software design

• Collaborate with Hardware and Software Engineers to optimize and implement next-generation control algorithms
• Peer review software and controls designs/source code
• Provide strong technical design guidance related to test script development and execution design, and share best practices to the organization
• Work independently to design, model, simulate and test control algorithms and applications

• Adhere to the Company’s Code of Conduct and Business Ethics standards.

• Design and qualify new solutions to applicable regulatory standards such as UL and CE

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Travel occasionally to Global BAC Design Centers (Shanghai, Jessup, Heist), and occasionally as needed to manufacturing facilities, conferences, industry councils, etc; combined up to 20% including internationally

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Working hours are the standard BAC 40 hours per week (8:30am-5:00pm with flexible start/finish times allowed)
• Travel, both domestic and international, can be up to 35% of the time
• Occasional evening/weekend hours are required, although can often be done from home with the use of a portable computer.
• Primarily Sedentary Activity in the office will be experienced; however periodic travel to R&D Lab and BAC manufacturing facilities with assembly (medium work) is required.
• Must have close visual acuity to work with computer systems and virtual models
• Will typically be subjected to only indoor conditions; however on occasional trips to BAC Lab or manufacturing facilities, the worker may experience heat, cold, humidity, and noise.

BAC Hiring Compensation Range $108,200- $185,200

BAC offers a comprehensive benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401k, employee stock ownership plan, and more. Please see additional details on the BAC website at www.Baltimoreaircoil.com.  

BAC Employees are eligible to participate in an annual bonus incentive program.