MTI is a leading provider of rich customer experiences for many of the country's top retailers and brands.  MTI interactive merchandising products enhance the shopping experience by matching shoppers with products and encouraging in-store demonstration.  MTI brings consumer products and product knowledge to the consumer's fingertips, turning curious browsers into confident buyers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Leads the mechanical engineering department to deliver superior products and services to current customers, while developing and executing the growth and diversification of the company's evolving business model
• Develops and maintains processes that bring the right products to market, on time, within budget that meet or exceed MTI's quality standards
• Collaborates with senior management, product marketing, sales and service in defining the overall system requirements and product-development roadmap
• Executes MTI's product roadmap and ensures the integrity of the documentation necessary to support MTI's product development process
• Responsible for ensuring that the day-to-day engineering activities of the mechanical team successfully achieves agreed upon goals and objectives, including schedules and costs
• Provides leadership with the intent to foster collaboration among all departments within the company and encourages innovation and creativity within engineering and product development

Supervisory/Management Responsibilities:

Manages company's mechanical engineering team of 2 - 3 employees. Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of staff. Carries out leadership and managerial responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include recruitment, interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving issues.                                                  

Core Competencies:  The Manager, Mechanical Engineering will have a proven track record of innovative mechanical design and 3 or more years of engineering management experience, including the following experience and competencies:

• An experienced engineering/product development manager with the ability to set and communicate clear goals and expectations, manage and improve performance, recruit, mentor and develop staff, and take decisive action when poor performance requires.
• Experience in planning and implementing major projects through a number of revisions and organizing processes such as development, integration, source control, maintenance and new feature development, performance benchmarking, deployment and support with a sense of urgency.
• Ability to develop a strong understanding of customer needs and establish operational standards to exceed customer satisfaction.
• Superior organizational, planning and communication skills, written/verbal presentation, and the ability to present complex technical information, in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, in large and small groups
• Proven ability to lead by example by demonstrating solid design principals in all projects.
• Proven ability to perform in a consultative manner with strong communication skills, both upward and downward.
• Successful history of working in small engineering organizations with demonstrated traction in a fast paced environment.
• Results-oriented self-starter who is looking to make an impact on business and is stimulated by the rapidly growing company in a constantly changing environment setting.

Primary Qualifications-Technical Knowledge and Skills

• Requires a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent and a minimum of 12 years applicable engineering experience with a minimum of 3 years experience managing technical staff
• Proven record of managing contracted out-sourced engineering development in adherence to schedule/budget constraints is required.
• Previous participation in an ISO-9000 certification process is desirable
• Previous experience in technology preferred, specifically where the marketing/manufacture of products that have changed an industry or will equip companies to conduct business in a new and innovative way
• Experience in retail merchandising and consumer electronics retail a definite plus
• Strong day-to-day operations skills, with a demonstrated track record in executing a defined development plan in a fast-paced setting
• A strategic vision to properly build an engineering organization for the long-term while managing to departmental budgets
• A proven track record of successfully launching new products into new markets
• Experience in a process intensive business and the ability to manage and efficiently execute a complex product development cycle
• A hands-on leader who creates loyalty, trust and following; one who can energize people and teams, and cause cross functional cooperation to occur
• Demonstrated ability to recruit and retain strong talent
• Strong interpersonal skills; the ability to work well with owners, the management team and the general employee population

This position reports to the VP of Products & Systems and is located at MTI headquarters in Hillsboro, Oregon near the Max tracks.  For more information about MTI, please visit our web site at www.mti-interactive.com. For consideration, please send your cover letter and resume to jobs@mti-interactive.com. Persons not including a cover letter and salary requirements may not be considered for the position.  Relocation is not available for this position, and therefore local candidates only are asked to respond with interest. MTI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free work environment.

Email: jobs@mti-interactive.com
Fax: 503.648.7500
MTI | 1050 NW 229th Avenue | Hillsboro, Oregon 97124