Senior engineering team leader job description
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Senior engineering team leader requirements can be divided into technical requirements and required soft skills. The lists below show the most common requirements included in senior engineering team leader job postings.
Sample senior engineering team leader requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
- 7+ years of relevant experience in Engineering.
- Familiarity with Engineering principles.
- Strong knowledge of project management concepts.
- Experience supervising a team of engineers.
Sample required senior engineering team leader soft skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively.
- Highly organized and detail oriented.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Ability to lead and motivate a team.
Senior engineering team leader job description example 1
Raytheon Technologies senior engineering team leader job description
- Typically requires a Bachelor's in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and 10 years of prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in a related field and 7 years of prior relevant experience. In absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience is required.
- A minimum of five (5) years of experience performing hands on structural and quartz lamp testing.
- A minimum of five (5) years of experience with instrumentation to include accelerometers, force transducers, thermocouples, strain gages, load cells, or displacement transducers.
- A minimum of five (5) years of experience with data acquisition system hardware and software such as Dewesoft, DEWETRON, Somat, or National Instrument's LabVIEW.
- Expert or mastery level knowledge of work area, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
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U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance as of day one of employment.
Qualifications We Value:
- Masters or Ph.D. in the aforementioned degree field.
- Previous experience leading teams.
- Demonstrated strong problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills including effective written, verbal, and listening.
- High situational awareness and ability to effectively work multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience developing and evaluating requirements and able to evaluate test issues and define solutions.
- Experience developing strategies in support of organizational efficiency improvements.
- Working knowledge of test equipment troubleshooting processes.
- Deep knowledge of project management.
- Advanced knowledge of related disciplines within work area and ability to identify links and potential impact on projects, programs or systems.
What We Offer :
Whether you're just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the superior benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.
Additional Details:
This position requires the eligibility to obtain a security clearance. Non-US citizens may not be eligible to obtain a security clearance. The Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office (DISCO), an agency of the Department of Defense, handles and adjudicates the security clearance process. More information about Security Clearances can be found on the US Department of State government website here:
Raytheon Technologies is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.
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Senior engineering team leader job description example 2
Caterpillar senior engineering team leader job description
**Your Work Shapes the World**
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best-in-class solutions, or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don't just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce, Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer's needs. Join us.
**Job Description**
As a Sr Weld Engineering Team Leader, you will set strategy at the project level. The project would solve problems for one or more technology, component, product, or process. The project scope will vary from a moderate technical focus to a broader, multi-systems focus, and will require broadening business understanding. Understanding and defining the benefits of a project or program to the customer is crucial. Challenges include increased competitive pressure, increasing project complexity, and customer demands. Therefore, the ability to draw upon foundational product development skills such as conceptual design, development of product and/or process, data analysis & extraction, failure resolution & prevention, and requirements management is required.
**Job Duties:**
Team Leaders are accountable for pulling together a cross-functional team of individuals, who may or may not have worked together before, to solve a moderately complex technical problem or create a critical component(s) and system(s) or processes.
The incumbent will be expected to pull input from a team to formulate decisions and develop the output for the project.
Plan and manage the job/project; focus on and communicate to the business/financial aspects of the project or program.
Provide a supportive work environment for the team.
Mentor, coach and develop others, and manage one's own development. The team leader will interact with people from diverse technical and cultural backgrounds. The incumbent will work within the team and beyond the team with contractors, hourly, salaried, and management employees, suppliers, customers, and individuals working in many Caterpillar organizations.
**Basic Qualifications:**
Bachelor's degree in the engineering curriculum.
10 plus years of engineering experience.
3 plus years of manufacturing engineering supervisory experience.
Fluent in Spanish.
**Top Candidates will also have:**
Previous team leadership and supervisory experience.
Experience with welding automation (3-5 years).
**Additional information:**
The location for this position is Mossville, IL, Athens, GA, or San Antonio, TX.
Domestic relocation assistance is not available.
This position may require 25 % travel.
Sponsorship is not available.
Closing date: 10/20/2022.
**Employee benefit details**
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
**Final details**
Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application - please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.
This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers .
For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best-in-class solutions, or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don't just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce, Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer's needs. Join us.
**Job Description**
As a Sr Weld Engineering Team Leader, you will set strategy at the project level. The project would solve problems for one or more technology, component, product, or process. The project scope will vary from a moderate technical focus to a broader, multi-systems focus, and will require broadening business understanding. Understanding and defining the benefits of a project or program to the customer is crucial. Challenges include increased competitive pressure, increasing project complexity, and customer demands. Therefore, the ability to draw upon foundational product development skills such as conceptual design, development of product and/or process, data analysis & extraction, failure resolution & prevention, and requirements management is required.
**Job Duties:**
Team Leaders are accountable for pulling together a cross-functional team of individuals, who may or may not have worked together before, to solve a moderately complex technical problem or create a critical component(s) and system(s) or processes.
The incumbent will be expected to pull input from a team to formulate decisions and develop the output for the project.
Plan and manage the job/project; focus on and communicate to the business/financial aspects of the project or program.
Provide a supportive work environment for the team.
Mentor, coach and develop others, and manage one's own development. The team leader will interact with people from diverse technical and cultural backgrounds. The incumbent will work within the team and beyond the team with contractors, hourly, salaried, and management employees, suppliers, customers, and individuals working in many Caterpillar organizations.
**Basic Qualifications:**
Bachelor's degree in the engineering curriculum.
10 plus years of engineering experience.
3 plus years of manufacturing engineering supervisory experience.
Fluent in Spanish.
**Top Candidates will also have:**
Previous team leadership and supervisory experience.
Experience with welding automation (3-5 years).
**Additional information:**
The location for this position is Mossville, IL, Athens, GA, or San Antonio, TX.
Domestic relocation assistance is not available.
This position may require 25 % travel.
Sponsorship is not available.
Closing date: 10/20/2022.
**Employee benefit details**
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
**Final details**
Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application - please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.
This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers .
For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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Senior engineering team leader job description example 3
Chick-fil-A senior engineering team leader job description
In this role you'll serve as a team leader,problem solver,mentor, andexpert software engineer. We need you to apply the technical experience you have gained in software development to the design, development, and delivery of front-end web applications; serving to both oversee your team and contribute as a member. You will be responsible for exerting technical leadership and influence across multiple product delivery teams to establish and maintain technology standards and best practices for custom-engineered commerce solutions on the web. Your work will directly support the long-term digital strategy at Chick-fil-A, transforming the way we capture sales and fulfill orders inside and outside the restaurants.
This role's direct reports serve on Chick-fil-A's Customer Technology Solutions Commerce Clients Team. This team is primarily responsible for delivering ordering experiences that serve customers domestically and internationally for ordering Chick-fil-A digitally. In this role, you will also have responsibility for HR management of staff software engineers on your team.
In addition to this responsibility, we have a wide array of other customer, team member and operator facing web applications that you will give leadership and Engineering guidance and support to.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and remotely, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
Responsibilities
+ Serve as the people leader for staff software engineers, developing professional and technical development plans, providing encouragement as well as constructive feedback, helping to remove obstacles and solve problems that keep them from focusing on engineering, and in general serving and representing your team
+ Serve as the technical leader for a software engineering team composed of both staff engineers as well as contract engineers. You will own solution architecture decisions for the products your team builds, lead delivery and operation of the products, mentor your staff software engineers technically, and select and oversee the contract engineers with which you work
+ Serve as a member of the interview team selecting future engineering team members for Chick-fil-A Inc.
+ Facilitate and oversee professional consulting agreements needed to scale with the team's development and support needs
+ Lead, develop and engage direct reports to model Chick-fil-A's core values and guiding principles
+ Responsible for workforce engagement, recognition, development and diversity
+ Hold direct reports accountable for achieving team goals and objectives, as well as coaching and mentoring
Minimum Qualifications
+ 5 years experience in technology solutions delivery
+ 2 years of experience with leading a team in building consumer facing web applications
+ 2 years experience leading teams (staff and/or contract resources)
+ 5 years experience managing/leading a technical team and/or project leadership
+ 5 years of experience using modern testing principles, practices, and automation tools
+ 5 years experience working to identify and drive systemic root cause and corrective action utilizing quantitative, qualitative analytical capabilities to communicate and influence others in a concise, data driven manner
+ 5 years experience in effective communication skills, including the ability to deliver presentations to customers and executives
Preferred Qualifications
+ Technical player/coach committed to continuous improvement and excellence in Digital products and services
+ Strong desire to work in Test-Driven Development and Quality Testing
+ Ability to achieve results as an individual contributor and through a team of quality and software engineers (staff and contractors)
+ Ability to influence quality engineers, software engineers, and product teams to achieve results
+ Demonstrates the ability to value both relationships and results
+ Ability to navigate through challenging situations, ensuring all parties are treated with honor, dignity, and respect
Minimum Years of Experience
5
Travel Requirements
10%
Required Level of Education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred Level of Education
Masters Degree
Major/Concentration
Bachelor's Degree (Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field) or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience from which comparable skills can be acquired
Job FunctionInformation Technology
Position TypeExperienced Professionals
Posting Location : LocationUS-GA-Atlanta
This role's direct reports serve on Chick-fil-A's Customer Technology Solutions Commerce Clients Team. This team is primarily responsible for delivering ordering experiences that serve customers domestically and internationally for ordering Chick-fil-A digitally. In this role, you will also have responsibility for HR management of staff software engineers on your team.
In addition to this responsibility, we have a wide array of other customer, team member and operator facing web applications that you will give leadership and Engineering guidance and support to.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and remotely, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
Responsibilities
+ Serve as the people leader for staff software engineers, developing professional and technical development plans, providing encouragement as well as constructive feedback, helping to remove obstacles and solve problems that keep them from focusing on engineering, and in general serving and representing your team
+ Serve as the technical leader for a software engineering team composed of both staff engineers as well as contract engineers. You will own solution architecture decisions for the products your team builds, lead delivery and operation of the products, mentor your staff software engineers technically, and select and oversee the contract engineers with which you work
+ Serve as a member of the interview team selecting future engineering team members for Chick-fil-A Inc.
+ Facilitate and oversee professional consulting agreements needed to scale with the team's development and support needs
+ Lead, develop and engage direct reports to model Chick-fil-A's core values and guiding principles
+ Responsible for workforce engagement, recognition, development and diversity
+ Hold direct reports accountable for achieving team goals and objectives, as well as coaching and mentoring
Minimum Qualifications
+ 5 years experience in technology solutions delivery
+ 2 years of experience with leading a team in building consumer facing web applications
+ 2 years experience leading teams (staff and/or contract resources)
+ 5 years experience managing/leading a technical team and/or project leadership
+ 5 years of experience using modern testing principles, practices, and automation tools
+ 5 years experience working to identify and drive systemic root cause and corrective action utilizing quantitative, qualitative analytical capabilities to communicate and influence others in a concise, data driven manner
+ 5 years experience in effective communication skills, including the ability to deliver presentations to customers and executives
Preferred Qualifications
+ Technical player/coach committed to continuous improvement and excellence in Digital products and services
+ Strong desire to work in Test-Driven Development and Quality Testing
+ Ability to achieve results as an individual contributor and through a team of quality and software engineers (staff and contractors)
+ Ability to influence quality engineers, software engineers, and product teams to achieve results
+ Demonstrates the ability to value both relationships and results
+ Ability to navigate through challenging situations, ensuring all parties are treated with honor, dignity, and respect
Minimum Years of Experience
5
Travel Requirements
10%
Required Level of Education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred Level of Education
Masters Degree
Major/Concentration
Bachelor's Degree (Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field) or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience from which comparable skills can be acquired
Job FunctionInformation Technology
Position TypeExperienced Professionals
Posting Location : LocationUS-GA-Atlanta
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Updated March 14, 2024
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