Vice President Engineering & Design

Our people are our success. As one of us, you will contribute to engineering excellence for the high-tech markets of the future, including semiconductors, batteries, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and data centers. At Exyte, you will be part of a global community of challenge seekers who are ambitious and passionate about innovation. Together, we will build on our company's long history and keep on leading the way to a better world.

The Vice President Engineering and Design, RBU BLS is responsible for leading the Regional Business Unit / Market Segment for Biopharma-Life Sciences in Engineering & Design. Develops strategic approach to the Market Segment regarding clients, services, and delivery. Provides leadership to the company in assigned areas that relates to the success of the overall enterprise.

• Drafts a road map towards a new structure of the Exyte engineering organization across all regions and Business Units
• Unifies tools and processes across all regions by means of soft leadership, change management and consulting with operating units
• Strengthens engineering competencies on top of a very solid and highly recognized status quo
• Anticipates future developments, especially regarding the digital transformation, and integrate them into an educated vision for the company to build on and push the market instead of being pushed
• Sets an effective growth strategy, building up the engineering capacity to expand engineering services, engineering quality and internalize all strategic relevant parts of the engineering value chain into the company, but also externalize engineering work which could be done with the same quality, but more cost effective with subcontractors
• Sets systems, processes and regional workflows to guarantee that designs are carried out to the highest possible technical standard, according to all sector specific environment and yet in a time and cost efficient way
• Disrupts the conventional way of "doing things" with new ideas, inspiring visions and appealing concepts and execute them subtly
• Focuses on enabling the company for revenue growth with bottom line awareness
• Manages the ongoing growth of the organization due to rising demand
• Assumes accountability for the quality of designs, including inputs and connected processes, as well as establishing standards and benchmarks for Engineering
• Acts as the highly visible thought leader in engineering know-how towards the organization and towards the market, becoming the primary identification point of first class engineering delivered by Exyte
• Other duties as assigned

The information contained in this job description is intended to describe the essential job functions required of those assigned to this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform the job. Please note that management retains the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The ability to competently perform all the essential duties of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation, demonstrated commitment to effective customer service delivery, integrity, and the ability to work productively as a member of a team or work group are basic requirements of all positions at Exyte Group.

Minimum Required

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• Professional Engineer (PE) License
• 15 + years of experience

Preferred

• Master's degree preferred

Specific Skills & Knowledge

• Knows all relevant design production tools
• Great knowledge of coordination and integration of multi-disciplinary engineering systems
• Always on top of industry developments, best practices and new concepts
• Strong self-starter and self-directed characteristics
• Ability to properly identify, assess and resolve problems and/or issues
• Exhibits a high sense of personal motivation and urgency
• History of developing and sharing best practices
• Experienced in developing and maintaining close client relationships
• Absolute commitment to ethical business standards
• Ability to demonstrate collaborative working relationships with peers and foster the same with direct reports
• Planning & Organization
• Results Orientation
• Change Leadership
• Interpersonal Sensitivity
• Influence & Persuasion
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Non-Solicitation: We are not currently accepting third-party agency candidates for this position. Any agency candidate submitted to any employee of Exyte may be contacted by Exyte without obligation to the third-party agency.

Exyte US, Inc. is proud to be an Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity employer that is committed to celebrating diversity and supporting an inclusive workplace where associates excel based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, age, sex (e.g., pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression), national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

You want to be part of the Exyte team? We look forward to receiving your application!

For further questions and information, please do not hesitate to contact Phillip Turner via E-Mail at phillip.turner@exyte.net

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Exyte is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to equal opportunity and equal treatment. Therefore, Exyte Group provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants regardless of ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information.