Faro Creaform Engineering is hiring a Global Engineering Director. Reporting to the DVP, BU Manager, you will drive the strategic development of engineering capabilities, oversee multi-disciplinary engineering teams, and ensure alignment across R&D, Operations, Product Management, and Service to safeguard the technical competitiveness, industrial robustness, and long-term scalability of our instrument platforms.
What You'll Do
- Define and deploy the global engineering strategy aligned with the product roadmap, operational priorities, and corporate standards.
- Build, structure, and develop a high‑performance global engineering organization, including team leaders in mechanical, electrical, software, systems, and sustaining engineering.
- Ensure engineering governance, design standards, and process consistency across all sites.
- Oversee end‑to‑end engineering execution for all new product developments and platform evolutions.
- Guarantee strong collaboration with R&D teams to translate technological concepts into robust, manufacturable, and cost‑effective designs.
- Partner closely with Operations for DFM, sourcing strategies, tolerancing, reliability testing, and industrial ramp‑up.
- Ensure scalability and maintainability of design choices throughout the product lifecycle.
- Lead global sustaining engineering teams to handle quality issues, obsolescence management, reliability improvements, and product compliance updates.
- Champion continuous improvement actions to enhance reliability, product performance, serviceability, and cost optimization.
- Oversee multi‑year engineering plans for platform modernization and technology consolidation.
- Ensure compliance with relevant regulations: safety, EMC, environmental norms, cybersecurity, export controls, and CE/UL certification.
- Maintain and improve engineering processes, including documentation, test protocols, design reviews, change control, and traceability.
- Drive system engineering discipline: requirements flow‑down, interface control, risk assessment, and verification & validation plans.
- Oversee engineering budgets, staffing, resource allocation, and multi‑site workload planning.
- Implement strong project management standards consistent with corporate requirements.
- Monitor key KPIs: schedule adherence, design quality, reliability metrics, cost targets, productivity, and obsolescence risk.
What We're Looking For
- PhD in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Physics, Mechatronics or related field).
- 15+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles within complex high‑tech equipment industries (semiconductors, metrology, scientific instrumentation, aerospace, optics, or similar).
- Proven success managing multi‑disciplinary engineering teams and large-scale product development programs.
- Experience with global, multi‑site organizations.
- Strong background in industrialization, DFM, reliability engineering, systems engineering, and sustaining engineering.
- Strong background in complex mechatronic, electronic, software, and system‑level architectures for high‑precision instruments.
- Solid command of systems engineering, DFM/DFA, reliability engineering, risk analysis, and structured design processes.
- Experience with industrialization, supplier management, and lifecycle/obsolescence management.
- Proven ability to lead multi‑disciplinary, multi‑site engineering teams, drive accountability, and develop technical talent.
- Skilled at managing technical trade‑offs and aligning engineering teams around performance, cost, and schedule targets.
- Mastery of project governance, planning, budgeting, and resource allocation.
- Ability to manage several complex programs simultaneously and steer engineering KPIs.
- Strong partnership with R&D, Product Management, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and Service functions.
- Ability to translate market and customer needs into clear engineering requirements.
Team & Environment
You will oversee multi-disciplinary engineering teams spanning software, electronics, mechanics, and systems within a global, multi-site organization.
Work Mode
This role operates on a global scale.
