Portfolio Management

• Drive a culture of collaboration, innovation and customer focus.
• Manage a diverse and multi-skilled team to achieve departmental outcomes.
• Drive the performance of the individual team members through accountability and example-based leadership and the PBO process.
• Coach, mentor & guide individual team members to realise their potential.
• Identify and/or grow Engineering talent through development, management, and recruitment.
• Establish and action progression & succession plans to retain knowledge and core competencies, and reward potential.
• Recognise, reward, and retain essential skill sets, high performers and contributors.

Product Development Management

• Work with Product & Project Management to maintain a high-level schedule of projects linked to forecast resource allocation.
• Manage the product development pipeline to ensure new projects are scoped and planned at a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) level, awaiting execution.
• Ensure project execution follows NPD processes in a pragmatic and efficient manner.
• Ownership of the Mechatronics NPD process ensuring continuous review and improvement of the process.
• Ensure that financial & timing analyses for planned projects are prepared as part of the NPD process.
• Prepare Portfolio level yearly budgets (CAPEX & OPEX) and headcount submissions.
• Review project timelines and available resource pool to achieve product requirements, project costs and timing.
• Create and maintain transparent reporting tools for interdepartmental and stakeholder groups on projects, KPIs, and other portfolio matters.
• Maintain an online portal allowing self-serving of up-to-date project and resource status.
• Participate in project business cases and status reviews.

Engineering Leadership

• Pro-active participation as part of the Engineering Leadership team in reviewing and enhancing departmental strategies and processes that aims to improve the efficiency and performance of the Engineering department.  
• Maintain and communicate a Portfolio Vision Document outlining the high level vision and expectations for the portfolio.
• Consistently promote and demonstrate the defined Engineering Values and Behaviors.

Safety

• Ensure the working environment is safe at all times and activities conducted are safe and don't harm self or other employees
• Maintain Safety compliance with the relevant legislation and regulations for safe working practices and functional compliance
• Eliminate risks in the working environment by conducting housekeeping, conducting risk assessments and working the line manager to eliminate or at least mitigate the hazards
• Report incidents such as near miss, accident or equipment damage using the reporting system
• Report incidents of any form of harassment, bullying or adverse behaviours
• Report any perceptions of deterioration in or concerns of the mental and emotional wellbeing of others

Design Quality Management

• Involved in Peer/Design Reviews of all technically applicable work.
• Ensure design concepts are peer reviewed by Technical Leadership
• Ensure refined designs are reviewed and approved by Technical Managers

Stakeholder Management

• Build relationships with Project Team members, Engineering Leadership & Management, Product Management, Operations and After Sales to determine and resolve issues associated with the project and product design.
• Escalate personnel issues to Executive Leadership where they cannot be resolved in the Project Team or Portfolio setting.

Best Practice

• Redefine the craft of Product Development using a pragmatic application of best practice Product Development techniques and methodologies.
• Choose and utilise appropriate tools, applications and workflows to ensure project delivery and resources are used in an optimised fashion.
• Manage engineering continuous improvement activities from feasibility to execution, to achieve departmental efficiencies and goals.

Innovation & Technology

• Keep abreast of latest technology trends and patterns in associated engineering fields, focusing on possible internal applications
• Encourage and foster a culture of innovation, technical creativity and curiosity.