Manager, Advanced Development, Automotive Lighting Job in Markham, Ontario Canada
Purpose:
TE Connectivity is an industry leader with an entrepreneurial spirit, fueled by innovation and collaboration. Our emphasis on forward thinking has attracted the brightest industry minds, allowing them to thrive and create breakthrough solutions that deliver a competitive advantage to our customers.
TE Connectivity is a global, $14 billion company that designs and manufactures approximately 500,000 products that connect and protect the flow of power and data inside the products that touch every aspect of our lives. Our nearly 100,000 employees partner with customers in virtually every industry—from consumer electronics, energy and healthcare, to automotive, aerospace and communication networks—enabling smarter, faster, better technologies to connect products to possibilities.
TE Connectivity is an independent publicly traded company whose common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “TEL.”
Responsibities:
We are looking for a Manager, Advanced Development, Automotive Lighting for our Markham facility.
Requirement:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Identify, design, develop and manage new technologies and products to meet future TE automotive lighting business needs.
- Manage Advanced Development, Automotive Lighting department.
- Provide effective lighting solutions to automotive customers to meet their requirements
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Ph.D. in Photonics and/or Lighting, or Masters of Engineering with Masters in Business Administration. Advanced degree may be substituted by extensive experience in lighting industry.
- Must have 5 years experience in design of lighting/optical products.
- Track record of identifying new product opportunities and taking them to commercially viable new products with significant impact on the industry.
- Visionary, entrepreneurial, hands-on, driven with exceptional memory.
- Proven creativity such as patents.
- Must be skilled at managing customers providing excellent service while taking care of company interest and identifying opportunities for TE.
- Ability to listen to customer problems or needs and formulate effective solutions.
- Knowledge of plastics, LED's, drivers etc.
- Background in Electronics preferred
- Proven relationships in the lighting and academic market segments
- Interest in automotive
- Ability to visualize in “3-D”
- Knowledge of Computer Aided Design (CAD) software
- Good communication, persuasion, people and management skills
- The ideal candidate for this role would not need to have work experience in the Automotive Industry but a high level of interest in working in the Automotive sector would prove to be a definite asset.