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Radio Hardware Chief Engineer

Come make the world and accelerate your success.

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 48,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

The Job:

As Radio Hardware Chief Engineer, you’ll be part of our Tools & Outdoor team and will be working as a hybrid employee. Radio Hardware Chief Engineer responsibilities will include assigning tasks to engineering teams, setting & maintaining alignment of long and short-term project goals, monitoring that projects are staying within time and budgetary restraints, maintaining 3-year product roadmaps, and compiling reports for leadership reviews. As a Chief Engineer, you will engage with product execution teams across all of Pro-Electrified, and will stay close to the critical projects from start to finish. You will be the technical go-to person for radio hardware and device communication standards working closely with other Product and Digital Chief’s. You will have a strong track record of delivering results with experiences including the design, implementation, verification, validation, and qualification, of embedded radio hardware, modular radio hardware, and integrated radio hardware.

You’ll get to:

+ Architect the hardware integration of wireless technologies for Pro-Electrified devices

+ Translate performative requirements into technical requirements.

+ Collaborate with Global Supply Chain teams (Manf, Ops, Purchasing) and peer Chiefs on suppliers, footprint moves & strategies.

+ Collaborate with Product Chiefs, Tool/Device Product Managers. Digital Product Managers and Digital Connect Applications Team to ensure end-to-end success of connected products.

+ Define and manage platformed wireless protocols that are scalable and flexible for a variety of tool applications for BLE and other wireless mediums.

+ Collaborate with product leads to ensure technical requirements result in meeting user’s needs.

+ Collaborate with edge application team, front- and back-end application teams, to ensure the wireless protocol functions from an overall systems view.

+ Provide strong leadership and management to a team of product development engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.

+ Drive a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement within the team.

+ Oversee the appropriate EE module and interface integration into the product development process for power tools and outdoor power equipment.

+ Responsible for the Value Improvement, DTV, and Warranty improvement funnels (sustaining engineering pathways related to integrated Radio products and technologies)

+ Collaborate, develop, and implement a strategic roadmap for radio modules that align with the Tools & Outdoor business unit’s product roads, goals, and long-term vision.

+ Guide design verification and validation activities, including design reviews, safety reviews, module testing review, and module integration testing review.

+ Work closely with the product development leads and project management office (PMO) to develop program schedules, solve technical and execution problems, and report to Senior Management on project status.

+ Guide the team in refining system architecture based on assessment of progress/challenges/failures during product development process.

+ Identify potential risks in product development and create strategies to mitigate them, ensuring the products launch on time and with high quality processing.

+ Mentor and develop engineers to their highest potential.

+ Be a Hands-on leader who is willing to dive deep, as needed.

The Person:

You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have:

Required Knowledge and Skills:

+ Experience using design tools for product development and documentation.

+ Established success in building, growing, and developing fast-paced, experienced teams spanning multiple disciplines in battery-powered electro-mechanical products.

+ Experience developing hardware designs and applications of radios for integration into products that utilize motor drive systems.

+ Expert knowledge in BLE, LoRA, and similar point-to-point or mesh Radio and wireless communication mechanisms.

+ Familiarity with emerging public networks such as Amazon Sidewalk, Apple Find-Me

Qualifications:

+ 12+ years experience developing platformed, modularized, and standardized system solutions with key involvement in radio hardware development.

+ Ability to own direction, technical vision, and strategy direction across multiple projects concurrently.

+ Influential leader with capacity for strategic vision for a product line and knowing what it takes to drive success with those products.

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Background in Systems engineering

+ Background in Functional Safety

+ Masters-level business degree

+ Experience in industries such as automotive, aerospace, medical devices, robotics

+ Experience in the design of EE modules for battery-powered products such as power tools and outdoor power equipment

Leadership Competencies

+ Global Perspective to meet the new T+O strategic plan

+ Drives Vision + Purpose

+ Strategic Mindset

+ Organizational Savvy

+ Situational Adaptability

+ Influencing/Persuades

+ Values Differences

The Details:

You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan, including:

+ Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.

+ Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

And More:

We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to:

+ _Grow:_ Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

+ _Learn:_ Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal.

+ _Belong:_ Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences.

+ _Give Back:_ Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.

What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!

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The base pay range for this position in Maryland is 134,300.00 - 268,600.00 USD AnnualUSD Annual USD per year. Pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on payment may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Applicants should apply via Stanley Black and Decker’s internal or external careers site.

_We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too._

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Benefits & Perks

You’ll get a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, retirement benefits, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Paid Time Off, including paid vacation, holidays & personal days, and tuition reimbursement. And, of course, discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and products and well as discount programs for many other vendors and partners.

What You’ll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development:

Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:

We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:

You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.

EEO Statement:

All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran’s status or any other protected characteristic.

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