Engineering Head Job Description
Engineering head
provides a broad mechanical engineering design background and performs mechanical engineering analysis (stress, fluids, vibrations, thermal), design for control and distribution of inert and hazardous gases, air and water handling for thermal management of equipment and enclosures, large enclosure design, electrical component packaging, mechanical structural mounts and fixtures, design for manufacturability in low volume products, and design for configuration management.
Engineering Head Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Manage the IaaS storage service globally within a ‘follow-the-sun’ model
Day to day management of the MIS function
Lead, develop and grow a team of data engineering specialists with culture of agility, collaboration and transparency
Develop best practice and create and implement the company’s data strategy
Ensure data is available to businesses in a secure, actionable and reliable way
Manage and work with external third parties where relevant
Foster, mentor and support the data community within the group
Be instrumental in building a data-driven culture within the organisation by exposing data, making it relevant and demonstrating how it can be used
Contribute to major recruitment, talent and publicity events, providing thought leadership externally where possible
Owns the standards and strategy for Big Data in EIM including understanding and monitoring usage of Big Data technologies across EIM
Engineering Head Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Engineering Head
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ITIL, US, EHS, LH, AWS, PMP, STC, ITSM, QA, APICS
Education for Engineering Head
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Employers hiring for the engineering head job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technical, Education, Mechanical Engineering, Science, Graduate, Software Engineering, Management, MBA
Skills for Engineering Head
Desired skills for engineering head include:
Engineering materials and processes
MS Excel
Back-end
Basic stress and strain theory and thermal management design
CGMP
CPU architecture
Cache layer
Current pharmaceutical
Databases
EH&S and applicable local regulations
Desired experience for engineering head includes:
Provide detailed architecture analysis, design and direction on development activities
Participate in design, code, test review cycles
Provide a GAP Technical Evaluation of requested functionality and OOB (out of the box) functionality
Perform solution walkthroughs with Process Owner(s) and testing team/s
Evaluate ServiceNow changes (upgrades, patch fixes) and ensure alignment with product strategy and roadmap
Identify opportunities to improve the product offerings from a quality, controls & capabilities perspective while also defining best practices
Engineering Head Examples
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Engineering Head Job Description
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Our company is looking to fill the role of engineering head. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for engineering head
- Develop world class gaming and subscription services that gamers love
- Collaborate with senior marketing, product and technology leaders throughout the company to provide technology leadership and vision in the areas of PC/console gaming applications, ecommerce and game streaming
- Hire, mentor and build an industry leading development organization
- Evolve the Origin product to include new features and services
- Develop applications on first party platforms
- Responsible for the live operations of the underlying services to provide a high availability player experience
- Responsible for release management across all Origin and related products/services
- Developing, maintaining and socialising a Storage strategy in conjunction with Key
- A strong and relevant work experience with Storage technologies
- Knowledge of server and network technologies and system security
Qualifications for engineering head
- Ability to problem solve, provide leadership and strategic direction of corporate initiatives
- The ability to design highly scalable, reliable, distributed systems using open source technologies and “cloud” services is mandatory
- Detailed understanding of web technologies and protocols Web servers, DNS, HTTP, JSON, XML, TCP/IP, CDNs
- Degree in engineering or technical/scientific disciplines preferred
- Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems highly preferred
- Enjoy helping others solve complex problems
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of engineering head. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for engineering head
- Fabricates and modifies machinery components as directed
- Participates in preventative maintenance tasks and procedures
- Performs carpentry, plumbing, and fabrication work as needed
- To keep the business up to date with current innovations and trends in process
- Manage a team of high performing full-cycle Engineering recruiters to deliver excellent performance, develop their recruiting expertise, and facilitate their professional development
- Partner with Senior Leaders across the Infrastructure Engineering organization to understand their hiring objectives and develop team recruiting strategies to hit goals
- Driving operational engineering excellence through the supporting of bids and delivering improvement plans to strive for a world class engineering team
- Mitigating engineering challenges
- Supporting Engineering Managers on bids and projects on resourcing, engineering metrics and planning
- Imbedding behaviours and thinking that lead to a competitive engineering proposition to our customers whilst maintaining delivery excellence
Qualifications for engineering head
- Technical ownership of equipment/systems that support process areas
- Exceptional analytical and data modeling skills
- 3-5 years’ experience in B2B development, sales engineering or customer solutions engineering
- Customer-centric support orientation
- JSON, XML, HTML, CSS and Javascript skills ideal
- Some knowledge of computer hardware and how it works highly desired
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Our growing company is looking for an engineering head. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for engineering head
- Shaping the technology offering ensuring it is future proof and relevance to a diverse customer base
- Help screen and select projects for incubation based on the feasibility of proposals and the quality of early engineering leaders within incubated projects
- Drive a culture of engineering excellence resulting in significant ongoing improvements in quality, productivity and agility
- Technical leadership and guidance to the development teams (in conjunction with Architect Team)
- Lead and manage the Science and Engineering Library
- Coordinate and supervise all science and engineering librarians to fulfill reference, instruction, outreach, and collection development assignments
- Provide leadership to develop innovative services that support open access, research impact, digital scholarship, and science data management and curation
- Oversee collection development budgets in science and engineering disciplines
- Provide in-person, virtual reference, and research consultation services
- Provide teaching and research-focused information services, including developing and conducting instruction programs focused on advanced resources for students in physical sciences and engineering
Qualifications for engineering head
- 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, leading large scale global engineering teams
- Extensive knowledge of modern web architecture and technologies including HTML5, CSS3, Java, Javascript, SQL, NoSQL and Memcache with AWS+CDN hosting
- Extensive knowledge of and experience with client and server code development and an ability to learn game console development
- Strong understanding of DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Agile development
- Experience with contractor outsourcing
- Strong leadership skills and an ability to influence at all levels of the organization
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Our company is hiring for an engineering head. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for engineering head
- Management of the Maintenance Team and contractors
- This includes deployment, monitoring, and improvement of key metrics
- Leads project teams to optimize existing PCBA processes on a continuous basis
- Provides day to day engineering support to Production
- Mentor and train Site technical resources in various processes, required tools and philosophies
- This includes supervising Process Engineers/Technicians
- To develop and take responsibility for a 5+ year strategy to grow the a Highway Engineering service – increasing turnover year on year focussed primarily through organic means
- To actively seek out and develop Highway Engineering opportunities alongside our established Transport Planning team in existing under-developed and new sectors, leveraging the skills and experience within our E&I Global business
- To adopt Project Director, Account Director and Framework Director roles on strategically important or significant Highway Engineering projects/frameworks and take leading roles (Bid Director, Lead Reviewer, etc) in the capture and pursuit of new business that supports your strategy
- To develop (with support from the marketing/comms team) and take ownership of a marketing campaign to raise E&I Europe Highway Engineering brand awareness, including speaking at conferences/seminars/workshops, utilising our technical resources/experts to publish articles in trade press and other mediums
Qualifications for engineering head
- A passion for working in gaming
- Mobile technologies, specifically with BYOD, MAM and MDM
- Proven success independently identifying and driving multiple initiatives working in close collaboration with both product and other cross-functional teams
- Minimum of 5 years maintenance experience in an industrial setting
- Experience with Stick and Mig Welding (Demonstration required)
- Experience cutting and torching
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for an engineering head. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for engineering head
- To develop and take responsibility for a 5+ year strategy to grow the Rail Engineering service – increasing turnover year on year focussed primarily through organic means
- To actively seek out and develop Rail Engineering opportunities alongside our established Transport Planning team in existing under-developed and new sectors, leveraging the skills and experience within our E&I Global business
- To adopt Project Director, Account Director and Framework Director roles on strategically important or significant Rail Engineering projects/frameworks and take leading roles (Bid Director, Lead Reviewer, etc) in the capture and pursuit of new business that supports your strategy
- To develop (with support from the marketing/comms team) and take ownership of a marketing campaign to raise E&I Europe Rail Engineering brand awareness, including speaking at conferences/seminars/workshops, utilising our technical resources/experts to publish articles in trade press and other mediums
- Lead the company through technology change from traditional baseband video, to a video-over-IP network infrastructure
- Oversee the design, build and support functions, defining development direction for solutions ranging from signal acquisition, all content production, to multi-platform distribution - increasing broadcast play-out capabilities
- Use established relationships and a clear understanding of today’s video technology landscape, have a position of impact across commercial, technology and corporate areas of the business
- Bring new ideas to shape the next chapter of content distribution
- Support the company’s video requirements, the dynamic development of infrastructure, process and methodology spans both legacy and new technology choices
- Reporting against incident prevention, rapid resolution of content delivery and distribution network issues
Qualifications for engineering head
- Experience using drill press and hand drill
- Experience with broaching and keyways
- Experience with straight edge machine alignment and belt tensioning
- Required to work from heights up to 120ft and inside non-permit required confined spaces
- Required to work in weather extremes
- Must have and keep a valid driver’s license