Applications Engineering Manager - Asia Pacific

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Leggett & Platt’s overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.

Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership span more than 130 years. Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products for all areas of life. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the automotive, furniture, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile and geo components industries.

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Automotive

Leggett & Platt Automotive is a global provider of wire forms, mechanical control cables, wireless charging, as well as seat lumbar, suspension, bolster, actuator, and motor systems. In addition to these award-winning, category-leading products, we offer tailored goods due to our expertise in product development and attention to market trends. Our unique competitive advantages give us unmatched insight into the demands of the consumer.

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Role Description

Role Title:            Applications Engineering Manager - Asia Pacific

Key RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Promote company vision/mission, values, and EHS to reporting teams and acknowledge team members evidencing 

Support

• Effective management of cost, timing, and product performance for engineering core RASIC functions to achieve

the business operating objectives established for the year

• Identify and communicate engineering best practices processes/methods and tools for evaluation of global

engineering process improvements.

• Cascade approved changes to global methods to the engineering organization
• Create career development paths for engineering teams with focus on succession planning for N-4/5/6 levels within

the engineering organization

• Integrate engineering efforts with sales and TAM to identify product directions in support of the company strategic

business growth and product strategies.

• Provide product mentorship to staff to develop robust engineering practices and team development.

Educational requirements, Certifications:

• University Engineering Degree - Preferably in the appropriate engineering field

Experience:

• 5 - 10 years direct leadership and development of technical staff
• Direct customer contact and product delivery to automotive customers within a cross functional team

environment

• Knowledge of automotive customer lauch processes (APQP, Phase gate, DFMEA, )
• Must be familiar with technical information received such as specifications, test methods, processes, etc.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITY:

• Fluent English
• Engineering skills related to the field of engineering application
• People Management and organizational behavior understanding
• Good communication with NA and EU L&P employees and customers. 
• Positive attitude and good technical (motor) skills
• Strong focus on team development, team organization and task priority setting within the team. 

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