Chief Engineer

1 Month ago • 10 Years + • Manufacturing

About the job

Job Description

As a Chief Engineer at Trek, you will provide technical leadership, ensuring engineering output is safe, complete, and smart. This role focuses on process improvement, not direct people management. You'll work with Electronics and On the Bike teams, guiding engineers through the product development process (mentoring, design reviews, training, setting engineering standards). Responsibilities include simplifying engineering processes, ensuring compliance with engineering, quality, and legal requirements, managing test plans, DFMEAs, and ECOs, and collaborating with Product Lifecycle Management to build efficient tools. You'll need strong problem-solving skills, a big-picture perspective, and the ability to work independently and in teams.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
  • 10+ years product development experience
  • Mechanical design experience
  • Process improvement skills
  • Cross-departmental collaboration
  • Problem-solving & execution
  • Technical leadership
  • Sign off on test plans, DFMEAs, and ECOs
Good to have:
  • Deep user experience with PLM tools
  • Experience assembling/maintaining bikes/ebikes
Perks:
  • Flexible and fun company culture
  • Competitive health care
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • Free life insurance
  • Competitive vacation package
  • 401(k) with match and ESOP
  • 12 weeks of maternity leave with 100% pay
  • Flexible holiday schedule
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Employee discounts

A bit about us 

Trek is an awesome place to work, with amazing benefits for all employees. We build only products we love, provide incredible hospitality to our customers, and change the world by getting more people on bikes. When you’re on our team, you’re taken care of, encouraged to learn and grow, and given lots of opportunities to do so. Give us your best, and we’ll give it right back. Sound pretty sweet? Then come join us!
 

Job Description

Chief Engineer - Electronics and On the Bike

As one of the Chief Engineers at Trek, you’ll make sure our engineering output is safe, complete, and smart.

This is a position of technical leadership rather than people management, sometimes known as Staff Engineer in other companies. While you won’t be engineering specific physical products, you’ll touch all Trek’s products through ownership of tools, processes, and approvals.

You will

  • Be part of Trek’s small team of Chief Engineers and primarily work with the Electronics and On the Bike accessories engineering teams.
  • Guide engineers through the product development process at scales both small (e.g. mentoring, design reviews) and large (e.g. training, engineering standards).
  • Simplify our engineering processes through standards, tools, re-use, and just writing things down.
  • Ensure Trek’s engineering, quality, compliance, and legal requirements are covered in our engineering specifications. Ensure projects have clear delineation of engineering authority between Trek and vendors. Sign off on test plans, DFMEAs, and ECOs within your domain of expertise. Own the process, standards, and templates for the same.
  • Work with our colleagues in Product Lifecycle Management to build tools to efficiently deliver excellent data to Engineering’s customers. Responsibly apply great superuser power in many of our systems.
  • Continuously improve our product development process in collaboration with the engineering management team.

What you need to succeed

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or similar with 10+ years of experience in a product development role. Some experience with mechanical design.
  • A bias toward thinking big-picture. Spot and solve related problems at the same time rather than one at a time.
  • Execution. Take messy, ambiguous problems and turn them into a solution and direction. Skills to present ideas and convince others using facts, data, and charm.
  • A drive to level up both yourself and others. Make us all smarter.
  • Ability to work independently and in teams to identify, fix, and follow through on opportunities for innovation and improvement.
  • A willingness to pull the e-brake when something needs to stop and be done correctly. The judgement to know when something is not a show-stopper.
  • Skills developing and maintaining strong working relationships with an international team and global suppliers.  A history of cross-departmental collaboration with colleagues in Quality, Compliance, and Product Lifecycle Management.
  • Willingness to travel when required. Consumption of spicy food negotiable.
  • Ability to take on multiple projects with the appropriate level of delegation and time management.

Bonus points for:

  • Deep user experience with product lifecycle management tools.
  • Experience assembling and maintaining bikes and ebikes.

Trek Benefits:

•    Flexible and fun company culture
•    Competitive health care
•    PPO & HDHP medical plan options, Dental insurance, Vision insurance
•    Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
•    Free life insurance & optional term life insurance
•    Competitive vacation package
•    401(k) with match and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP)
•    12 weeks of maternity leave with 100% pay
•    Flexible holiday schedule – 10 company holidays
•    Tuition Reimbursement up to $15,000! (Undergraduate & Masters programs)
•    Employee discounts on all product
•    Deep partner retail discounts



We are an Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) Employer. Trek strictly prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, age, national origin, veteran or military status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state and/or local laws.  This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, demotion, compensation, training, working conditions, transfer, job assignments, benefits, layoff, and termination.


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