Product delivery team lead

The Exosens Advanced Imaging business unit specializes in the research, development and industrialization of opto-electronic products: IR sensors, image intensifier tubes, camera platforms for visible, night vision, industrial inspection, thermal inspection etc.

The Product Delivery Group is a critical part of the R&D department. The group investigates a wide range of state-of-the-art image sensor and camera projects targeting a large variety of markets and applications and ensures the R&D deliveries are ready-for-production and ready-for-sales, allowing a trustworthy transfer to the production department (manufacturing, supply chain, ). The team will work in close collaboration with many different teams including sensor, firmware, software, mechanical and optical design teams inside R&D, production and some key customers.

The Product Delivery Group consists of 2 sub teams: (i) Test and Measurement, and (ii) Transfer to Production.

The Test and Measurement team is responsible for testing and fully qualifying the products made by the development groups in R&D. This activity includes scripting to facilitate and automate the tests.

The transfer activities ensure that qualified R&D deliverables are ready to be transferred to production. This includes the preparation of work instructions for the production teams and working alongside production to ensure all elements are in place for small-scale production. Ramp up for high volume production is taken care of by other teams in the production department.

The product delivery team also provides feedback to the development teams to ensure the designs take manufacturability into account.

The Product Delivery Group is the first contact point in case production finds R&D related issues in production, such as issues caused by design flaws or by discrepancies with the product specifications.?The Product Delivery Group is the first point of contact inside the R&D department in case customers report issues that cannot be handled by the customer support and production teams.

The Product Delivery Group is present in three locations: Leuven, Grenoble and Tienen.

We are looking for a manager for the Product Delivery Group.

Objectives of the role

As the manager of the Product Delivery Group, you

* Co-define the strategy of the Product Delivery Group, together with the VP R&D and other stakeholders in the organization. This includes:

* Defining the Test and Validation strategy.

* Defining the Transfer strategy.

* Co-defining the "definition of done", needed to define when products are truly ready for transfer products to the production department.

* Co-defining the methodology used in the Product Delivery Group.

* Developing a vision in collaboration with external stakeholders incl. clear and positive communication on validation status.

* Are accountable for the mission and the good performance of the team. This includes:

* Ensuring and guaranteeing the qualification, performance, and maturity of the products.

* Executing the validation strategy and hence contributing to the roadmap execution.

* Executing the strategy to transfer and hence contributing to the roadmap execution.

* Ensuring the "definition of done is met.

* Continuously innovating and improving the methodologies, measurements, tools, equipment, and the way of working of the team

* Ensuring efficiency of the team, completeness of validation plans and the timely execution of the team activities.

* Being hands-on when needed.

* Ensuring effective collaboration between the sites.

* Are responsible for the planning of the group

* Capacity mgt, planning according to the roadmap and the R&D priorities.

* Support project mgt

* Ensure People management.

* Creating the conditions to allow people to develop their skills.

* Recruiting and developing talent that makes the organization stronger, with improved cross-engineering team collaboration to be better aligned with our long-term priorities.

* Ensuring the retention of top talent, addressing all aspects of employee engagement and satisfaction.

* Enforce the Exosens Advanced Imaging policies in the group.

* Monitoring and improving the team efficiency, reinforcing existing competencies, developing new pools of competencies on critical technical domains.

* Manage relationships with vendors.

* Interact with customers when needed.

* Contribute to the continuous improvement of the ways of working inside the R&D department and the whole organization.

Required skills and Experience:

* Master's degree or equivalent in a relevant domain

* 10 years of experience

* Experience in project or program management

* Experience in multi-disciplinary team management

* Experience in multi-site organizations is a clear plus

* Experience with validation is a clear plus.

* Extensive Experience with test automation

* Extensive knowledge of test equipment, optical and mechanical test setups

* Design of test plans and test cases.

* Experience with Industrialization and transfer of R&D results is clearly a plus.

* Knowledge of Firmware, Software, Optical systems, ASIC designs, Mechanical designs

* Soft skills

* Excellent oral and written communication

* Trouble solver mindset

* Rigorous worker

* Autonomous

* Cross-cultural sensitivity

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