Job Description Summary: R&D Manager

This position is expected to successfully lead a team to drive regional and local goals on new product design, localization, and sustaining engineering. This position is based in Ningbo China and reports to China Operations Director.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Leads R&D team to closely work with marketing, sales, production, quality, and sourcing teams for new product development from concept through design and validation to final production.

• Takes lead on design and its optimization of product with short time-to-market at competitive cost.

• Ensures design quality by complying the procedures in all design and development activities and using critical six-sigma tools like VOC, DOE, DFX, with sharp mind-set of six-sigma design or concurrent engineering.

• Coach the team in efficient and effective way/methodology and motivate the team for innovation.

• Supports the organization’s intellectual property strategy by documenting data and independent, unique, and patentable ideas that result from experimentations and concept generation activities.

• Ensures quality in a product’s design for usability, reliability, functionality, marketability, and manufacturability.

• Lead the team to integrate products and optimize product categories;

• Keeps abreast of latest developments in new technology which should include smart and connected products and automation, and translating those developments into new and viable options for the organization and customers etc.

• Research new processes or materials for possible new product development.

• Responsible for making significant improvements of NPD process to enhance product lines;

• Introduce fresh ideas and creative solutions to stimulate discussion and thinking in R & D and engineering team, as well as the whole organization;

• Applies Design to Cost and Design for Manufacturability methods to achieve project objectives.

• Ensures proper design and development documentation.

  EDUCATION:

Bachelor or above, majored in mechanical engineering, or HVAC, Master degree preferred

MANAGEMENT:

R&D team

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years working experience and strong background on design and development of mechanical products (intelligence control products experience is a strong plus, at least similar project management experience)

• Proven track record of launching new products to meet customer demand in an efficient manner

• 5+ years of leading a team of engineers and manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders

• Good oral and written English (working language is English with major stakeholders overseas)

• Strong communication and project management skills;

• Capability of building a strong team, organizational change and talent development;

• Capability of solving problems which are complex and require extensive investigation and analysis;

• Ability to influence others to accept practices and approaches, and ability to communicate and influence executive leadership.

Watts Water is a global leader of quality water solutions for residential, industrial, municipal, and commercial settings. Our family of brands (https://www.watts.com/our-story/brands) offers some of the most varied product lines in the world, with world-class, water-related solutions focused on:

• Drainage and Water Reuse

• HVAC and Hot Water

• Plumbing and Flow Control

• Water Quality and Rainwater Harvesting

We are a $1.9 billion global company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with a presence in five (5) continents and twenty-four (24) countries, and an employee population that speaks over eighteen (18) languages. As a people-first company, we prize enriching and caring for all who work here not only through words but through actions. This includes executing our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy, and providing our employees with meaningful career growth opportunities, a positive and safe work environment, and affirmation that they are heard, valued, and respected.We are proud to be an organization that believes that a safer world is a more sustainable world – a belief that we proudly reflect in each of our technologies and solutions and our environmental and social commitments, such as our partnership with Planet Water Foundation.

Learn more about the Watts way, here (https://www.watts.com/our-story/brands) .

Specialties

Plumbing, HVAC, Water Quality, and Gas

Headquarters

Americas & Corporate Headquarters: North Andover, Massachusetts, USA

Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa (APMEA) Headquarters: Shanghai, China

Company Size

About 5,000 employees

Website

http://www.watts.com/

http://www.wattsindustries.com/

http://www.wattsasia.com/

Industry

Machinery

Founded

1874