Engineering Team Lead, Product Support & Sustainment

Garmin Ltd.; Olathe (KS); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Garmin Ltd. is seeking a full-time Team Leader Product Support Engineering in the Greater Kansas City area.

You will lead a team of electrical engineers and technicians, directing sustainment, design improvements, and project execution to enhance reliability and production efficiency. The role requires strong leadership, hands-on design experience across analog/digital/RF, and effective collaboration with manufacturing, QA, and supplier teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical/Computer Engineering with 5+ years relevant experience, or 10+ years experience
• Cumulative GPA 3.0 or higher as a general rule
• Knowledge of engineering and manufacturing processes and documentation

Responsibilities

• Directly supervise design team members and provide coaching, training and mentoring
• Collaborate with Manufacturing, Customer Repair, Quality Assurance, and Product Support to improve reliability and customer experience
• Coordinate with Purchasing and Forecast teams to manage end-of-life components and supplier changes
• Plan sustainment projects across the Design Engineering Team and ensure execution to plan
• Participate in recruiting activities, interview, hire, and evaluate performance for the team
• Lead design reviews with proper attendees and coverage of topics, sharing lessons learned
• Ensure design goals align with product development and sustainment plans
• Ensure design tasks are partitioned and assigned to qualified engineers
• Monitor progress of the design team, testing and schedule compliance
• Assist Product Support Engineers and Technicians in tradeoff analysis of circuit options
• Ensure production needs are understood and engineers collaborate with production and other Garmin groups

Skills

Team leadership

Electrical engineering knowledge

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Project planning

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Test equipment tools

Circuit design/simulation tools

Job description

Garmin Ltd. is seeking a full-time Team Leader Product Support Engineering in the Greater Kansas City area.

You will lead a team of electrical engineers and technicians, directing sustainment, design improvements, and project execution to enhance reliability and production efficiency. The role requires strong leadership, hands-on design experience across analog/digital/RF, and effective collaboration with manufacturing, QA, and supplier teams.