Lead Electric Engineer (m/f/d) - Automotive - Tyrol (AT)
--Empl Fahrzeugwerk GmbH--
Our client is an internationally active manufacturer of special, project, and fire-fighting vehicles with its main plant in Tyrol. For decades, the company has been developing and producing customized vehicle solutions for emergency organizations, industry, and public clients throughout Europe. Each vehicle is created in close coordination between sales, design, electrical planning, and production – from the first technical clarification to delivery.
To strengthen the electrical planning department at the Austrian headquarters, we are looking for a Head of Electrical Planning (m/f/d) who will take on leadership responsibility for a specialized team while also actively participating in the day-to-day operations to a significant extent. The role is intentionally hands-on: At least 50% of the work involves active participation in electrical design and implementation support.
- Overall responsibility for the electrical design of special, project, and fire-fighting vehicles.
- Active operational participation in electrical design as well as independent processing of selected projects and sub-projects.
- Creation, review, and approval of circuit diagrams, commission lists, ordered parts lists, and technical documentation.
- Ensuring compliant, technically sound, and economical vehicle planning, including the complete software-related planning and change scopes.
- Responsibility for meeting deadlines, cost, and quality targets as well as prioritizing ongoing projects based on capacity, customer deadlines, and production sequence.
- Technical and disciplinary leadership of the electrical planning team, including deployment and capacity planning, even during project peaks.
- Further development of employees through ongoing coaching, training, feedback, and structured employee discussions, as well as participation in recruiting, selection, and onboarding.
- Close coordination with adjacent areas such as sales, project management, mechanical design, production, purchasing, quality assurance, and service.
- Coordination of technical objectives, project content, and priorities with management, as well as participation in construction meetings, approval rounds, and order discussions.
- Direct customer support as needed in the context of special and project vehicles, as well as a contact person for internal and external stakeholders on electrical engineering issues.
- Active support of the vehicles during the construction phase with a focus on parts availability, information flow, software transfer, and technical clarifications.
- Participation in the inspection, acceptance, and approval of completed vehicles in the area of electrical/electronics, as well as acting as an escalation instance for technical problems in implementation.
- Identification of quality issues, root causes of errors, and process deviations, as well as deriving sustainable corrective measures.
- Further development of planning standards, design guidelines, libraries, testing concepts, and documentation standards with a view to standardization, modularization, and reuse of technical solutions.
- Completed technical training in the field of electrical engineering, mechatronics, vehicle technology, or a comparable qualification, ideally with further education (HTL, master, technician, university of applied sciences, degree) with a focus on electrical engineering.
- Several years of professional experience in electrical planning, electrical design, or electrical system planning in vehicle, machinery, or plant construction.
- Solid experience in the planning of circuit diagrams, parts lists, order parts lists, and technical documentation.
- Good knowledge of electrical and electronic systems, ideally in the special vehicle, commercial vehicle, or fire service vehicle environment.
- Experience with relevant CAD/CAE/E-CAD systems such as AutoCAD Electrical, Codesys, or comparable tools.
- Ideally, experience in the technical or disciplinary leadership of teams.
- Understanding of production processes and the technical implementation in manufacturing.
- Enjoyment of an operationally shaped leadership role with a high personal contribution in project processing as well as the willingness to participate in at least 50% of the daily business.
- Strong leadership skills with a clear, binding, and motivating attitude, combined with team orientation and a hands-on mentality.
- Structured, solution-oriented, and pragmatic working style as well as high technical problem-solving and decision-making competence.
- Ability to set priorities and maintain an overview even under deadline and project pressure.
- High quality orientation, sense of responsibility, and interest in standardization and process improvement.
- Fluent German skills at C1 level, English skills are an advantage.
For this position, a collective agreement minimum salary applies. Depending on qualifications and experience, a market-compliant salary with significant overpayment is offered.