Manager, New Product Development - Electrical
Henny Penny

Job Info

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Do you want to work for a global company that creates remarkable experiences through people, products, and food? If you want to be part of a rewarding People First culture that values relationships, trust, and taking the long view, then this is the place for you. Henny Penny was named the 2021 Dayton Business of the Year for many good reasons. Read on to learn more!

The Engineering Manager, Embedded Control Systems plays a key role in leading a team to develop a wide range of commercial cooking equipment. The Manager has the opportunity to be involved with implementing and supporting new products, product improvements, product enhancements, customization, solving customer related problems, creating and overseeing new processes, and developing other engineers. In addition, the Manager will be involved in design extensions to current product lines to meet the needs of a diverse customer base, review creative solutions to application problems that occur on our new and mature products, and research new or emerging technologies.

What We Offer

• An opportunity to work for a company that is 100% employee-owned. As an employee-owner, you will be enrolled in our employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) program following one year of service. This is a qualified retirement plan that is separate from your 401k and consists only of Henny Penny shares that will be paid out when you retire (or when you leave the company, but we hope you'll stay!)
• Annual company performance bonus in addition to base salary
• Flexibility to work from home 2 days per week
• Defined career paths so you'll always know what's next and what steps can get where you want to go
• Professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement and unlimited free access to LinkedIn Learning courses
• A competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, PTO, and paid holidays
• Onsite wellness clinic offering preventive care services such as wellness screenings, annual physicals, and related lab work at no cost to employee-owners
• Activities including department outings, holiday parties, and our annual company-wide Thanksgiving Dinner

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and lead teams to deliver hardware and firmware for world-class products.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to your team members and your project peers.
• Set clear expectations and create a positive work environment based on accountability, in collaboration with the engineering and management teams.
• Understand and drive implementation of hardware and firmware development practices across teams and projects.
• Conduct and participate in periodic reviews of work output.
• Conduct performance reviews and establish goals for team to meet company objectives.
• Create product requirements and conduct technical feasibility studies.
• Create system design requirements, detailed technical specifications, and risk management.
• Estimate the costs, resources, and time to complete a project.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure project objectives are met.
• Improve skills and product knowledge by getting additional training and continued education.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight to engineering staff.
• Respond to internal/external inquiries about the technical aspects of our products.
• Champion internal process improvements and helps create a roadmap.
• Follow best practices and all regulatory procedures for ISO, UL, CE, and others as required.
• Take overall responsibility for designing and implementing system specifications and formal representations of solutions used to create, modify, test, debug, deploy, and maintain system software that operates hardware and/or interacts with the product user or automated system.
• Provide detailed technical reports to the team and management including presentations to small and large groups.
• Train, mentor and coach engineers in their professional development.
• Consistently model the Company Values and Expected Behaviors
• Other duties as assigned.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years technical leadership experience in development targeting ARM processors and SoCs including hardware and firmware development
• 5+ years in the food service industry preferred
• Collaborative style and a passion for learning, laughing, and achieving
• Ability to teach and provide technical leadership to Hardware and Firmware Engineers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong attention to detail
• Advanced ability to develop/implement bootloaders, low level drivers, libraries, and BSPs
• Expert in C/C++ as applied to embedded systems
• Excellent understanding of digital and analog electronics
• Advanced knowledge working with RTOS and/or embedded Linux
• Proven leader in establishing and motivating engineering teams
• Excellent understanding of UART/USART, RS232, RS485, Modbus, CAN, USB, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, Flash, EEPROM, and ADC/DAC
• Experience in designing complex systems and creating system documentation
• Experience with IoT solutions, edge and cloud computing
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes
• Ability to travel and work at customer locations (sometimes on short notice)

About Us

We're known in our industry for making the best commercial food equipment in the world. Every day, millions of people eat in restaurants operating Henny Penny equipment. We're a behind-the-scenes engine in the world's most demanding kitchens, including long-term partners like McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, KFC, and Wendy's. We're 1,000+ employee-owners who thrive by living a People First mission: to support employees in becoming the best version of themselves both personally and professionally.

We recently completed the largest expansion in our history with the addition of 150,000 square feet on our Eaton campus. This expansion drives development of the world's most reliable, easy-to-use equipment with an innovative new space for global research and development. We have several collaborative spaces for our project teams, a dedicated electrical engineering lab for our hardware and software engineers, a full model shop for rapid prototyping, and a brand-new test lab that has 300 feet of hood space to test new equipment on our product roadmap. On top of that, we have a new state-of-the-art kitchen for our food science group to meet with our customers, understand what they need, and then dial in our equipment to help them make legendary menu items.

Henny Penny is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), marital status, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

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