Electrical Engineer

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As a Lead Motor Design Engineer, you'll play a leadership role within your team. You'll guide teams in developing and designing new electric motors and improve existing ones. You'll manage projects, guiding less experienced engineers, and making critical technical decisions. Leading the design and development of complex motor design, ensuring product performance and cost-effectiveness.
Optimizing problem-solving and diagnosis. Mentoring less experienced personnel on this process.
Managing project timelines and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure deliverables are completed on time and within budget. Training and monitoring a team of engineers to improve team technical capability.
Creating and maintaining necessary documentation and driving best practices.
Training and mentoring less experienced engineers to improve team's technical capabilities. Engineering effectiveness
Project profit
Project cost Education - Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical engineering or related field with extensive engineering experience.
Knowledge - Be an expert in mechatronics, electro-magnetics, and motors.
Skill - Be able to lead cross-functional teams and manage projects from concept to production.
Skill - Able to collaborate effectively with clients, stakeholders, and management, while mentoring less experienced team members.
Skill - Proven ability to handle complex technical challenges demonstrating exceptional technical leadership, project management, and communication skills. Decision Quality - Makes good decisions (without considering how much time it takes) based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment; most of his/her solutions and suggestions turn out to be correct and accurate when judged over time; sought tout by others for advice and solutions.
Creates Strategic Agility
- Critical Thinking: Synthesizes data into crisp and sound strategic insights and conclusions. Strategic Thinking: Takes a global and long-term perspective when making business decisions. Learning Agility: Able to navigate ambiguity and complexity in order to adapt quickly. Intellectual Curiosity: Possesses a desire to learn new things and seeks out knowledge.
Problem Solving - Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.
Drives and Delivers Impact - Delivers Results: Does what it takes in order to consistently meet expectations. Action-Oriented: Approaches work with a sense of urgency and drive. Prioritize: Identifies the vital few and focuses resources and energy on the most impactful tasks. Executional Rigor: Uses metrics to measure progress and inform decision-making.
Embraces the Novanta Growth System - Continuous Improvement Mindset: Actively seeks opportunities to improve upon the current state. Novanta Growth System: Implements and leverages process and best practices to improve performance. Champions Growth: Enthusiastically develops and embraces best practices in order to drive continuous growth for self and others. Stretch Goals: Takes calculated risks, balancing stretch and strain, to test the limits of what is possible.

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