Gardner Denver Thomas manufactures a wide range of vacuum, pressure and liquid technologies including: WOB-L piston, articulated piston, diaphragm, rotary vane, linear and peristaltic. From linear pump and linear compressor products to diaphragm vacuum and liquid pumps, Thomas employs over 800 people at three manufacturing sites in North America, Europe and Asia, and dozens of Thomas Sales, Service and Distribution locations around the world.

Qualifications

Your Profile:

• Engineering degree (Mechanical, Electric, Application, Chemical, or similar)
• Min. 8+ years’ experience in the relevant technology field
• Broad knowledge in minimum 3 different relevant industrial segments and applications
• Familiar with state of the art innovation management and engineering processes and software
• Fluent English, additional languages preferred

Responsibilities

Core responsibilities:

• Manage with the team all technology relevant aspects of the assigned product category
• Prepare together with the product manager the product, technology and project roadmap for the category
• Built-up and enlarge the relevant core technology & know how
• Built up & maintain state-of the-art technical knowledge of customer applications & solutions, trends and
  market developments (technologies)
• Provide global technology & application service to Sales and Customers
• Act as a technical counterpart for all global internal/ external sales functions
• Partners with Product Management in voice of customer activities, content creation, ideation & innovation
  sessions and/or co-creation activities with customer, built-up product development briefings & definition of
  done
• Monitor competitor technologies & evaluate competitive products and technologies
• Deliver technical design & layout for system relevant core technologies
• Assures that technical developments are delivered in time, in cost, in full, in assigned budget and in quality.
• Manages external partners (supplier, test laboratories, universities, engineering partner/ ESG, etc.)