|APC| Chief Engineer – Back UPS

The Chief Engineer is responsible for ensuring that product offers consistently meet or exceed published and customer expectations for performance and quality throughout their lifecycle. This role brings a systems-level perspective, applying engineering rigor, cross-disciplinary knowledge, and lifecycle experience to drive design excellence, compliance, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities
- Lifecycle Assurance: Ensure offers meet performance and quality expectations from concept through end-of-life.
Design Standards Oversight: Validate and maintain Design Standards; ensure lessons learned are embedded into design processes. Create new Design Standards as needed.
-Systems Engineering Leadership: Apply systems engineering principles to assess offer architecture, design concepts, and quality plans.
Design Review Participation: Participate in collective design reviews to maintain alignment and ensure design integrity.
-Design Oversight: Verify compliance with engineering processes (e.g., ELM, DfSR), validation methods (e.g., DFMEA, FTA), and risk management practices.
Validation Ownership: Develop and approve DVT test plans; review results and approve milestone achievements.
-Component Management: Approve critical part specifications, validate part selection, and oversee second-source qualification.
Safety Leadership: Lead Offer Safety Reviews (OSR), ensuring mitigation of hazards such as arc flash, touch safety, and high fault currents.
Compliance Authority: Provide compliance signatures and engineering letters; ensure adherence to regulatory and internal standards.
Change Control: Serve as a leading and approving member of the Board of Change (BOC).
-Quality Accountability: Own quality metrics and participate in all quality reviews related to the offer.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Architects, Compliance, Secure Power OSRC, and other Lines of Business (LoBs).
Cross-Site Coordination: Align systems and designs with peers across global design centers.
-Engineering Engagement: Support and mentor engineering teams; ensure accessibility and knowledge sharing.
-Performance Monitoring: Analyze factory and field data to anticipate technical escalations and inform evolving standards.

Qualification:
•Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, or related field).
•10+ years of experience in UPS product development, systems engineering, or a related technical leadership role.
•Proven experience in design validation, compliance, and lifecycle management.
•Proven hands-on design experience on UPS products.
•Strong understanding of engineering processes, risk management, and quality systems.
•Experience with tools such as DFMEA, FTA, thermal/vibration/stress analysis, and simulation techniques.
•Familiarity with regulatory compliance and safety standards.
•Excellent communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
•Good English writing and speaking