Senior Product Line Manager

Description

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The Senior Product Line Manager will take total ownership of assigned products in order to grow company profitability. Typical scope of the responsibilities includes, but not limited to, working together with compliance, codes and standards, sales, marketing, operations, engineering, technology, field service, Product Line Management co-workers and other teams in Australia and other global locations in defining, developing, introduction, sustaining and retiring assigned energy storage product lines. Particular contributions are expected in synthesizing codes and standards compliance themes, and providing advice to engineering teams in the product development and introduction phases. It will report to the Senior Director of Product Line Management, and will mentor junior team members in different capacities.

Location
Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities

Collaborate with compliance, codes & standards, environmental safety, engineering and other teams to:

• Survey trends in codes & standards, incentive programs, customers requirements, supplier and partner offerings, test institution capabilities in Australia
• Provide guidance to the creating and updating of market requirement documents, electrical requirement documents, system requirement documents, etc for energy storage products to other Product Line Management co-workers and engineers
• Provide guidance in prototype design and evaluations; participate in daily product development, certifications, test and application activities
• Create product documents, codes and compliance notes, application notes, product safety documents, marketing collaterals, sales pitch materials, legal documents
• Provide guidance in product safe handling, storing and disposing to operations, sales, marketing, engineering, field service, legal teams
• Propose new product concepts based on new business cases, codes & standards for Australia
• Work with local utilities and service providers externally and with internal stakeholders on requirements for adapting/ modifying/ enlisting Enphase products for Australia
• Mentor junior Product Line Management members either in advisory, indirect management or direct management capacities
• Be an authority of the assigned product areas who can provide expert advice to management
• Fulfil other scheduled or unscheduled tasks as assigned

Required Experience:

• An engineering (electrical, mechanical, materials) or science (computer, physics) MSc degree, or a MBa degree with a BSc degree in engineering or science
• > 10 years of Product Line Management, compliance, engineering, certification, test experience in the battery, energy storage systems, inverter, control systems, power electronics or electrical systems business
• Familiar with at least some of Australia energy storage systems codes & standards, including UL, IEC, IEEE, EMI, ICES, UN, NIST, AS/NZ, etc
• Familiar with local listing, registration and jurisdiction requirements, such as CEC, etc
• Familiar with architecture, battery management and control systems, system controllers, gateway, firmware, battery performance monitoring and diagnostics platforms
• Proficient with collaborative tools like Jira, Confluence, Arena, Jama, etc.
• Strong sense of ownership and urgency on assigned tasks
• Strong work ethics, team player, communicator, business acumen, analytical skills and pro-active attitude

Desired Experience:

• Direct product certification, development, testing or product management experience of residential energy storage systems for the Australia markets
• Experience working for, or with, Nationally Recognized Test Labs, certification organizations (e.g. UL, Intertek, CSA, TUV, VDE, etc), listing or registration organizations (e.g. CEC, etc)
• Familiar with residential and commercial PV and energy storage systems market landscape in the Australia

About Enphase Energy

Enphase Energy is a multi-national company with many global locations, sales and marketing, operations, and research and development. 

Find out more:

https://enphase.com/en-au/company