Harman

HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

About the Role

This position is responsible running the regional EMC & Electrical Validation Labs, test outsource and daily activities.

Regional point of contact for Harman EMC & Electrical Validation related tasks and strategies. Primary function is to ensure products meet customer, legal, and Harman International requirements using best practice methods and tools, in time, quality, and cost.

Your Team

This position reports to the Global EMC and Electrical Validation Leader

This position will have 5-15 direct reports; typically, Engineers and supporting roles

What You Will Do

• Leading of EMC & Electrical Validation Team in China, providing direction, leadership and motivation
• Develop, coach and lead European Electrical Validation Team towards achievement of individual and team goals; hire, train, coaching and career development, evaluate employee performance
• Manage and control EMC/Electrical validation related spending, resource allocating & task execution
• Drive improvement and development of EMC & Electrical Validation processes.
• Ensure global and regional processes and procedures are followed, verifying team acceptance and adherence
• Providing tools required to complete product qualification in compliance with global and Customer standards
• Drive Development, automations and optimization of test methods and processes
• Review and approving validation plans and RFQ inputs
• Monitor and report testing statuses
• Oversight test summaries, test reports and presentations to internal stakeholders and Customer
• Identify the work force resources, capital equipment and expense needs for annual budget planning.
• Drive and optimize outsourcing of testing to external Labs

What You Need to Be Successful

• Strong EMC knowledge and proven work experience of technical team management in automotive industrial. Well understand of electronics and telecommunications.
• Bachelor or Master degree in Engineering (Electrical Engineering) or appropriate graduation. MBA is preferred.
• 10+ years EMC qualification, 8+ years’ managerial experience, automotive industry background highly desirable.
• Experience in escalation and problem resolving for customer project critical issues.
• Fluent English communication ability
• Experience of setting up EMC validation labs and customer accreditations.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Familiar with ISO17025 or IFTA 16949, sufficient knowledge at project management.
• Familiar with Automotive international EMC standards. Knowledge in automotive OEM specs is a plus.
• Well trained in problem solving methodology. Such as DMAIC, PDCA, CAPA and etc.

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.