Gyro R&D Manager

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Seakeeper is the world leader in vessel stabilization and our gyro products are world renown. As our Gyro R&D Manager, you’ll take over the development and improvement of the technology that makes our products great. This is a highly technical product with custom developed controls, hydraulics, and electro-mechanical systems. We also leverage various manufacturing processes optimized around our unique functional requirements and geometries, and leverage volumes uncommon for a machine of this complexity in the marine industry. In this role you’ll have endless opportunities to further your own technical knowledge as well as the ability to meaningfully impact the marine industry by:

• Becoming a Seakeeper technology expert across multiple engineering disciplines
• Identifying technology development pathways and the opportunities they could yield both in success and failure
  • Working with the product engineering team to understand current design limitations
  • Working with suppliers to understand current manufacturing limitations
• Creating and communicating a coherent short-term and long-term strategy for expanding product capabilities
• Constructing a team of the top-notch engineering talent to effectively meet the demands of our long-term strategy
• Participating in technical discussions and documentation reviews, promoting a data driven and growth focused culture
• Facilitating and managing timelines and weekly goals for the project teams
• Developing implementation packages providing proper background, engineering calculators, and design rules allowing the product development team to implement R&D findings into next-generation products
• Hiring, developing, and managing a team of multi-disciplined R&D Engineers with various tenure

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Do you have a positive attitude, an eagerness to learn and the ability to lead by example in a fast-paced environment? Then Seakeeper is the place for you! Here are a few other things you’ll need to succeed.

MUST-HAVES

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering
• 7 years of product development or product facing R&D experience
• 2 years of R&D project ownership or engineering management
• 2 years of direct people leadership experience
• Senior level technical contributor with a demonstrated ability to contribute at the system level of product design
  • Must fully grasp technical trade-offs of design scope decisions
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate discussions and reach compromises amongst other senior engineers
• The ability and patience to take complicated technical problems and present them in a digestible and non-misleading way to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience communicating timelines, goals and budgets to project stakeholders

NICE-TO-HAVES

• Master’s degree in mechanical or electrical engineering
• Expertise in mechatronic and/or hydraulic systems development
• Experience working in R&D in a managerial role

MORE DETAILS YOU’LL WANT TO KNOW

• This role will require an onsite presence of 4 days per week minimum in Leesport, PA
• Relocation assistance will be provided, if applicable
• You’ll report to the Director of Gyro Engineering, also based in PA
• On-the-job technical resources and training will be provided (we will help you become a Seakeeper expert!)

YOUR TEAM

Our Gyro R&D Manager will oversee our Gyro R&D Team. This is one of the most experienced technical teams at Seakeeper and is comprised of engineers with varying backgrounds and specialties including hydraulic, electrical, mechanical, software, controls and more with a heavy emphasis on collaboration and data driven decision making.  This team executes projects through an Agile workflow that allows maximum exposure to a variety of projects and systems within the group.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT HERE

It’s true that we make extraordinary products, but our favorite part about Seakeeper is our people! We believe in participative leadership. That means you have the freedom to make a difference and contribute to the larger goal, regardless of your position. Great ideas can strike at any moment, and when you have one, you’re empowered to speak up!  We are constantly pushing (or crushing) boundaries. Stagnant or bored are about as opposite from Seakeeper as you can get! We move quick and if there is something that can be improved upon, we jump on it.

WHO WE ARE

71% of our Earth is covered by water and we want everyone to make the most of it. That’s why we are committed to creating products that transform the boating experience with an organization that employees want to work for, customers want to buy from, and vendors want to partner with. Our gyro stabilizers eliminate boat roll and create a land-like experience on the water. We defy gravity and completely change the way people spend time on the water.

We started the company 12 years ago, and now 50% of the boats built annually in our core market are Seakeeper equipped. With our recent introduction of smaller units that are ideal for boats as small as 23 feet, there is a long road of growth ahead!

Ready for a new challenge in a fast-paced environment? Want to help us disrupt an industry? Come on and apply, we are ready for you!

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