Toner Supplies Engineer Senior Manager
Description -
Key Responsibilities
Technical & Program Leadership
- Provides direct and ongoing leadership for organizations designing, developing, and sustaining toner cartridges and related hardware across new platforms, derivatives, and legacy products.
- Oversees engineering execution across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring alignment to Toner Supplies and Solutions (TSS) platform strategies, interface requirements with external partners, and HP business objectives.
- Guides technical decision‑making for complex tradeoffs involving cost, yield, reliability, manufacturability, and time‑to‑market.
- Acts as an escalation point for the most challenging cross‑functional and supplier-driven technical issues, ensuring timely resolution.
Portfolio, Resource & Execution Management
- Manages headcount, skill mix, budgets, schedules, and deliverables across multiple teams and programs to meet roadmap commitments.
- Ensures effective resource allocation across NPI, platform evolution, and sustaining engineering, balancing near‑term execution with long‑term capability development.
- Partners closely with program management, operations, quality, and supply chain to ensure execution discipline across the product lifecycle.
Cross‑Functional & Executive Engagement
- Engages regularly with senior leadership, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, finance, and executive stakeholders to:
- Communicate program status and technical risk
- Escalate issues with clear options and recommendations
- Influence strategic decisions related to platform investments, cost optimization, and make‑vs‑buy strategies
- Represents mechanical engineering perspectives in business reviews, technical reviews, and executive forums.
Supplier & Partner Leadership
- Owns senior‑level engineering engagement with key external suppliers, setting expectations for:
- Technical deliverables and interfaces
- Product quality and reliability
- Cost and yield targets
- Development and production schedules
- Ensures effective collaboration and communication between HP engineering teams and outsourced partners across geographies.
- Drives joint problem‑solving and continuous improvement initiatives with suppliers.
Process Improvement & Cost Leadership
- Identifies and leads opportunities for engineering process improvement, simplification, and standardization.
- Drives cost‑reduction and yield‑improvement initiatives through:
- Design optimization
- Platform reuse
- Manufacturing and tooling improvements
- Supplier collaboration
- Champions data‑driven decision‑making and best practices across teams.
People Leadership & Talent Development
- Provides overall people‑care management for direct reports, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development.
- Builds strong leadership bench strength within the team by developing managers and senior technical leads.
- Drives a culture of accountability, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement aligned with HP values.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s or Advanced Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Typically 10+ years of relevant engineering experience with 8–10 years of people and organizational leadership, preferably in:
- Hardware product development
- High‑volume manufacturing environments
- Platform-based product strategies
- Supplier‑intensive development models
Knowledge & Technical Skills
- Mechanical system and component design for high‑volume consumable products
- Manufacturing processes (injection molding, machining, sheet metal, tooling)
- New product development and sustaining engineering across long product lifecycles
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Cost, yield, and reliability optimization in production environments
- Thermal and mechanical integration as relevant to toner systems
Cross‑Organizational Leadership Skills
- Strategic thinking and systems leadership
- Strong prioritization and execution discipline
- Resilience in managing ambiguity, complexity, and external dependencies
- Customer and business outcome focus
- Proven people and change leadership
Impact & Scope
- Impacts large, globally distributed engineering teams and critical product lines.
- Leads initiatives requiring coordination across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, external partners, and executive leadership.
- Direct influence on cost structure, product quality, supply continuity, and long‑term platform success for HP Toner Supplies.
- Operates with broad autonomy, applying HP and organizational objectives to resolve highly complex technical, organizational, and supplier‑related challenges.
- Achieves results through multiple layers of management and senior technical staff.
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Job -
Engineering
Schedule -
Full time
Shift -
No shift premium (Singapore)
Travel -
25%
Relocation -
Yes
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