Director of Engineering / Redfish Technology's Client / Pasadena, CA

Redfish Technology's Client/Pasadena, CA# 17187 Director of Engineering-EV/Smart Grid Area: Pasadena Area, Los Angeles
My client is a rapidly growing enterprise focusing on leading edge unmanned aircraft systems and efficient energy systems solutions. I'm looking for creative, committed, and visionary team members who are passionate about contributing to my client's success. Be a part of the team that developed the world's highest flying airplane, the world's most widely used unmanned aircraft system, has six vehicles displayed in the Smithsonian, and has earned the title of one of the top 15 “Cool Companies†to work for by Fortune magazine.

Job Duties & Responsibilities
Overview
Efficient Energy Systems segment, as its name implies, is focused on the emerging energy technologies and products necessary for the new millennium. These have included: "small wind" turbines, capable of significant power generation on the rooftops of commercial buildings; ocean power, deriving energy from the natural undersea currents; highly efficient motors, generators, and alternator-rectifiers for aerospace and defense applications; and fuel cells and their associated power electronics. Today, the segment's focus is on the emerging electric and hybrid-electric vehicle market, and its surrounding infrastructure needs. This focus includes in-home and on-road chargers, "smart grid" technologies to minimize electric vehicle impacts on the existing utilities, and networking and "back-office" data distribution and management functions for owners, utilities, and transaction agencies. I am looking for a capable, aggressive, forward-thinking technical manager to lead the design, development, introduction, and adoption of these critical products into the electric vehicle marketplace.
Responsibilities, Interfaces, and Reporting
The Director of Engineering is responsible for hiring, directing and managing a growing staff of electrical, mechanical, and software professionals. The charter(s) of the organization are those of a traditional technical Engineering directorate in a growing enterprise:
(1) Interface with Business Development and Sales organizations in the development of new concepts and products in the market space, thus maintaining a market-leading position for the enterprise;
(2) Efficiently utilize Internal Research and Development (IR&D) funding to generate proof-of-concept and low-rate initial production configurations for customer demonstrations and approvals;
(3) Manage the configurations and document designs of both hardware and software products;
(4) Fully evaluate the resulting products within the requirements of the customers' functional requirements, as well as within the requirements of the applicable Military Standards, Federal Communications Commission, Consumer Electronics, and the United Laboratories specifications, plus those of applicable utilities;
(5) Successfully transition products to Production, and sustain the products through their full life cycle.
The individual will report directly to the SVP/GM of EES, and must interface successfully with Program Management, Business Development/Sales, Operations, and Quality. This individual will be expected to actively participate in generation of new business, presentation of Operations Reviews to Corporate management, manage direct and indirect budgets, and generally set the tone for technological and product excellence.
Required Qualifications & Background
Education and Experience
Required: Minimum of a BS in Electrical, Mechanical, or Software Engineering, plus a minimum of 10 years experience in related fields and technologies, plus at least 3 years managing a technical organization.Apply To Job