SR MGR ADVANCED ENGINEERING

TE Connectivity Corporation; Plymouth (MN); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary Package

Performance-Based Bonus Plans

Health and Wellness Incentives

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Community Outreach Programs / Charity

Employee Resource Group

Job summary

TE Connectivity is seeking a Senior Manager of Medical Advanced Engineering to lead global tech initiatives and rapid prototyping efforts across TE Medical. The role reports to the CTO and requires strong leadership of technical teams and cross-functional partners to deliver innovative medical solutions.

The position emphasizes technology roadmaps, early development, and close collaboration with sales, product management, and operations to meet customer needs and strategic goals.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or higher from an accredited university.
• 10+ years in medical product development or similar
• Willingness to travel up to 20% to support a global organization
• Experience leading technical teams >15 people

Responsibilities

• Lead the global Advanced Technology team and the PROPELUS program across TE Medical.
• Develop technology roadmaps and drive project execution aligned with medical strategy.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product Management, Operations and PMO to balance customer needs with capacity.
• Foster rapid prototyping, early development, and scalable transfer to production.
• Oversee monthly business reviews for Propelus prototyping center and Advanced Technology teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

Engineering management

Cross-functional collab

People leadership

Travel readiness

Education

Engineering degree or higher

Job description

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Why join us

TE Connectivity is a $15 billion worldwide leader in connectivity and sensor products & solutions. TE Medical is a business unit within the Industrial Solutions Segment (IS) delivering innovative solutions to medical industry OEM customers in imaging, diagnostic, therapeutic, surgical, tubing, and minimally invasive interventional applications.

Leveraging cross-industry innovation and proven engineering expertise, TE Medical partners closely with our customers to understand and solve their toughest technical problems. We put the customer first in everything we do – our engineers, account managers and customer teams ensure that we deliver what our customers need, when they need it.

Role Responsibilities

The Senior Manager of Medical Advanced Engineering, located in Galway, Ireland, will play a crucial role in shaping the strategic direction of product and process design to meet future customer requirements. This role demands a unique combination of leadership, technical expertise, and engineering execution, enabling them to inspire and guide the advanced technology team while collaborating closely with business leaders. Reporting directly to the CTO, this individual will be exceptionally skilled in both technical and people leadership.

The Senior Manager will globally oversee the Advanced Technology team and the PROPELUS early-development and rapid prototyping model across TE Medical, including the PROPELUS center in Galway and activities executed through other Medical sites. As a persuasive influencer and technical visionary within the business unit, they will possess a deep understanding of global trends impacting TE Medical's markets. They will develop technology roadmaps and drive project execution aligned with the medical strategy.

A key objective will be to use early technical engagement and rapid prototyping to influence customer development decisions toward TE capabilities while optimizing designs, increasing the opportunity to win scalable manufacturing programs.

• Lead the global Advanced Engineering team across all aspects, from creating roadmaps to executing projects, meeting key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Drive the global PROPELUS operating model for prototype and early-development opportunities, ensuring fast customer response, consistent execution against on time, on cost, and on quality targets, and effective use of the best-fit TE Medical capabilities across sites.
• Increase number of key early-stage development projects, create relationships and partnerships with key customers, drive project execution through close engagement with NPD and operations to ensure seamless transfer to production
• Guide the team in applying state-of-the-art technologies to deliver optimal solutions.
• Partner with Sales, Product Management, Operations and Project Management to align early-development priorities with customer needs, business strategy, execution capacity and manufacturing opportunities.
• Work closely with HR to strengthen the engineering team's capabilities and depth by fostering team growth and development.
• Implement talent planning and succession strategies for the Advanced Engineering group, ensuring alignment with TE Medical Global Job Framework to manage team members' career paths effectively.
• Manage communications with the business team, supply team, and Project Management Office (PMO) to ensure timely and optimized project impact and execution.
• Collaborate with finance to evaluate the business outcomes of the group.
• Spearhead innovation initiatives to cultivate creative thinking within the team and encourage medical-wide participation.
• Partner with marketing and sales to drive customer technology/innovation discussions through direct customer contact, trade shows and social media.
• Engage and collaborate with other business units within TE to leverage relevant technologies and innovations.
• Foster an environment of continuous improvement to rapid prototyping processes.
• Conduct monthly business reviews for Propelus prototyping center and Advanced Technology teams.

What your background should look like

• An engineering degree or higher level of qualification from an accredited university.
• 10+ years industry management experience in a medical product development environment desired.
• Willingness to travel up to 20% as required to support a global organization
• Experience leading technical teams >15 people

ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.

WHAT TE CONNECTIVITY OFFERS:

We are pleased to offer you an exciting total package that can also be flexibly adapted to changing life situations - the well-being of our employees is our top priority!

• Competitive Salary Package
• Performance-Based Bonus Plans
• Health and Wellness Incentives
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Community Outreach Programs / Charity Events
• Employee Resource Group

Across our global sites and business units, we put together packages of benefits that are either supported by TE itself or provided by external service providers. In principle, the benefits offered can vary from site to site.

Job Locations:

Posting City: Plymouth

Job Country: United States

Travel Required: 10% to 25%

Workplace Type: Hybrid