Senior R&D Manager - M4

Manager for multiple product development and technology development projects.  Provide technical leadership, management responsibility for product design and identification of new technology opportunities. Devotes a significant portion of their time to managerial, leadership, organisation and staff development responsibilities.

Key responsibilities:

• Drives functional excellence initiatives, delivers high quality R&D functional deliverables, and ensures technical excellence for product or technology development.

• Drives technical projects of major magnitude and scope.

• Provides significant guidance and approval regarding technical strategies and approaches.

• Ensures continued intellectual property development from self and staff.

• Owns intellectual property development for the product line and technologies.

• Provides guidance and training to staff, assists subordinates in attaining career goals, motivates individuals to achieve results, and recruits and maintains a high quality staff.

• Develops and monitors department budgets.

• Determines appropriate staff levels, schedules and resources.

• Co-ordinates sessions with project managers/core team leaders to look for opportunities for staff to learn about new initiatives or volunteer on new projects.

• Drives the development of department tools and methodologies.

• Determines project staff assignments and schedules work to meet completion dates and R&D deliverables.

• Establishes cross-functional team relationships.

• Provides an overview of the function and role of his/her group, technical skill sets, to other groups and/or divisions.

• Works cross-functionally in identifying and resolving technical issues.

Education and experience required

• Hons bachelor’s in mechanical/biomedical engineering or similar discipline.

• Minimum 5-7 years demonstrated People and Technical Leadership within a comparable environment.

Closing Date: 2nd May 2025

Requisition ID: 604464