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Lead Development Engineer 002420
Organization Description
Philips Consumer Lifestyle is one of three market-driven sectors within Royal Philips Electronics, delivering lifestyle solutions for personal well-being. Consumer Lifestyle makes a difference to people's lives by making it easier for them to achieve a healthier and better lifestyle. We believe that sense and simplicity can be the goal of technology and apply that principle to create life-enhancing solutions. We apply a rigorous product development process when creating new value propositions. At its heart are validated consumer insights, which show that the propositions meet a market need. The combination of insight, simplicity and innovation differentiates us from our competition and creates a platform for sustainable business success.
We operate in the following businesses:
Television - experience and lifestyle television Audio Video Multimedia and Accessories - home and portable audio and video entertainment, including Blu-ray Disc players/recorders and docking stations for portable entertainment devices; and accessories, including headphones, portable audio accessories and remote controls
Personal Care - electric shavers, female depilation appliances, haircare and male grooming products, vitality solutions and skincare
Health & Wellness - oral healthcare and mother & childcare
Domestic Appliances - kitchen appliances, floor care, garment care, and water and air purifiers Coffee - espresso and beverage appliances Philips Consumer Lifestyle's headquarters is in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We have a highly international workforce of approximately 18,500 employees spread over 50 countries.
Department Description
IDA is Philips' main development site for domestic appliances. In Drachten products are developed in four innovation teams, one for each business unit: Kitchen Appliances, Beverage Appliances, Water and Air and Floorcare. These teams are very multifunctional: besides product developers (mainly mechanical engineers), they consist of marketeers, quality specialists, Application researchers, physicists, electrical and software engineers, test engineers, etc.
Products developed for Floorcare range from OEM-products to fully in-house developed innovations, and projects range therefore from organizational challenges to more technical challenges. The product development department takes care of translating consumer whishes into tangible products. We play a role in early phases, safeguarding technical feasibility, to the later project phases in which it is our responsibility to release a product according to specification.
Candidate Responsibilities
The Lead Development Engineer is the chief designer of a product. In this role, the candidate is the right hand of the project leader. The Lead development engineer leads a team of 2-5 product development Engineers, taking responsibility for the technical realization of the product in terms of functionality, quality, throughput time and price.
The design activities range from first sketches and feasibility studies to off-tool component release. All in close-contact with the product developers and the project team, with end-user and other stakeholders other clearly in mind. Besides carrying out design activities, Lead product developers are expected to stay state of the art on knowledge on applicable technologies, and to generate knowledge on the specific applications and components or modules.
Furthermore a Lead Development engineer has a responsibility of coaching his team and has a senior role in the whole team of product developers.
Candidate Profile
We wish to have a T-Shaped engineer: wide interest and experiences, but can dig deep as well. Can abstract and extrapolate knowledge from and to different fields, and pragmatically use this knowledge and is a clear leader to a team.
Experience in:
- Designing consumer products
- Leading Teams
- Constructing in plastics
- DfSS (advantageous)
Excellent communicative and people skills.
Has clear opinion on product development and products at stake.
Knowledge creation: academic skills with a pragmatic approach in carrying out experiments to gain insight and knowledge is advantageous.
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vakgebied
Techniek / productie
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functietype
Management / Leidinggevend
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Niveau
WO
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Minimum aantal uren per week
40.0
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Maximum aantal uren per week
40.0
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