Head OF Design & Engineering Contrat : CDI

PHOVA Technology, major player in industrial equipment & services, as part of its industrial development aims to offer industrial machinery products accompanied by a world-class service. Our team of design & engineering imagine and design our products to answer to our customers’ needs with adequate products. We analyze, identify the origin, recommend, and provide an adequate solution to our customers.

PHOVA Technology relies on digitalization and collective intelligence by listening to its customer's needs in industrial machinery to ensure them operational and commercial efficiency, with an after-sales service perfectly adapted to their needs.

PHOVA Technology relies on continuous improvement and its great capacity of innovation to improve its products such as centrifugal pumps, to open to industrial valves, axial pumps and to develop new materials in partnership with scientific and academic actors.

Join the team, PHOVA Technology is looking for its head of design & engineering to ensure full satisfaction of our customers.

MANAGE PRODUCT DESIGN FOR PHOVA TECHNOLOGY

• Responsible for design & development production plan of new catalogs, products of family products such as pumps, valves, specific pump ranges or other products of PHOVA Technology’s catalog
• Lead development, design, and engineering activities or PHOVA Technology’s project leveraging best work practice across the organization while applying methods (costs, performance, schedule, manufacturing)
• Leading product development in accordance with PHOVA Technology’s strategy, annual objectives with project management methods and tools available
• Responsible for completing pump design programs driving through a scheduled planification
• Responsible of research & innovation for industry to accelerate PHOVA Technology’s development catalog and to push for new leading-edge product technology across PHOVA Technology’s portfolio
• Be able to design new products to permanently satisfy PHOVA Technology requirements such as performance, cost, quality in a timely manner and to satisfy technical and eco-design requirements
• Design components of products & products to maintain the lowest cost with the best features at any step of manufacturing: cast, molding, stamping, machining
• Ensure to maintain innovative features and solutions to deliver new designs
• Ensure in collective intelligence continuous improvements on design methodology, manufacturing, or maintenance of the product
• Mentor and delegates to senior design engineers, junior design engineers and technicians
• Be able to analyze, identify issues, propose adequate solutions, and make appropriate decisions to improve productivity of design for industry team and, improve productivity on PHOVA Technology’s manufacturing
• To focus on key clients & opportunities in coordination with sales effort to maximize customer satisfaction, activity’s growth, and manpower
• Participate in technical committees to approve product design and product improvements
• Ensure compliance with workplace legislation and PHOVA Technology’s regulations toward hygiene, security, and environment
• Develop and maintain a safe & well-organized workplace, well-organized research design follow-up
• Be able to maintain a knowledge building strategy for design to share knowledge and improvement
• Using creativity and innovation to propose and find appropriate solutions to engineering issues
• Prototype building, simulation, and testing to validate designs and performances
• Create or modify & Approve Bill of Materials and assembly drawings associated with the product, equipment, or component
• Design calculations, analysis and interpretations using established tools including Finite Element Analysis
• Prepare, interpret, analyze drawings, specifications, procedures, or related materials

CUSTOMER’S CENTRICITY

• Drive a culture based on customer centricity maintaining continuous improvements on features, security, hygiene, and environment
• Be able to answer customer and industry requirements and satisfy customers ‘needs
• Be able to provide a complete assessment to other departments as necessary to solve and provide customer’s satisfaction and a highly responsive support to resolve any performance, technical, design or features of the product on the field
• Be able to answer and understand customer needs or market demand in design specifications reliable for products
• Maintain a continuous research improvement of the product thanks to research investigations, be able to propose and perform advanced analysis, or auditing, identify and propose appropriate conclusions and recommendations
• Ensure and verify components and products ‘integrity

TRANSVERSAL PRODUCT DESIGN SUPPORT FOR INDUSTRY

• Preparation, participation for technical reviews, engineering reviews, decision gates and reporting
• Follow-up of production until delivery to customer (design, manufacturing, assembly, maintenance)
• Work closely with other departments within the organization to collaborate on any aspects on engineered or design orders
• Be able to work on demand on specific technical projects related with PHOVA Technology’s activity
• Be able to prepare detailed technical support (presentations, analysis, mementos, technical specifications for any purchasing technical requests etc…)
• Participate in orders and design review meetings

1. Technical competencies
Have a strong manufacturing and design knowledge
Analytical, strategic, and planning skills
Proven skills and experience in product design
Experience in multinational environment

2. Relationships
Team spirit
Ability to work under pressure and to stay focus on PHOVA Technology’s objectives
Able and comfortable to work in environments of constant change
Proven ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team environment

3. Tools
Use of Office package
Use of Solidworks, AutoCAD, Ansys
Use of ERP
CFD experience