Senior Director, Design Engineering

Senior Engineering Leader

The role is for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Engineering Leader to spearhead a strategic customer engagement focused on cutting-edge technology solutions. This role demands a unique blend of technical expertise, customer-centricity, and leadership acumen to drive successful outcomes in a dynamic environment. This role is accountable for strategic customer engagements - this includes regular engagement with the customer on technical advances, product quality, engineering metrics etc. To be successful in the role, the senior leader will need to work closely with internal and external stakeholders globally. The leader must be a thought leader, with strong communication skills and be forward thinking. As a people leader, the leader will build and groom a team of high performing engineers, working with them on objective setting and professional development initiatives. The candidate will have overall responsibility for software quality, customer engagement (Engineering) planning, budgeting, implementing and maintaining costs in a functional area. The candidate will regularly interact with executives and / or major customers. Interactions may involve readouts, strategic direction setting or responding professionally and proactively to any potential escalations.

Responsibilities

• Lead Customer Engagement :
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for a key customer, building strong relationships and understanding their needs.
• Collaborate closely with the customer to define project scope, requirements, and success criteria.
• Effectively communicate technical concepts and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences at the customer.
• Ensure customer satisfaction by delivering high-quality solutions that meet their expectations and timelines.
• Drive Engineering Excellence :
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the design, development, and delivery of cutting-edge technology solutions, leveraging emerging technologies.
• Champion engineering best practices, leveraging modern and secure software processes and languages.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes and methodologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensure Quality Outcomes :
• Define and implement quality assurance processes and metrics to ensure that deliverables meet the highest standards.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks to project success and product quality.
• Champion a culture of quality throughout the engineering team and the customer engagement.

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Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law). At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process.

Celestica (NYSE, TSX : CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.