Job Description: Senior Project Leader – New Product Development Engineering The Senior Project Leader is accountable for the successful delivery of high-complexity, high-priority new product development (NPD) programs for outdoor power equipment (OPE). This role sets project direction, aligns senior cross-functional stakeholders, and drives execution through ambiguity while maintaining ownership of product performance, cost, quality, schedule, and risk. The Senior Project Leader anticipates organizational and technical barriers, creates decision-ready paths forward, and coaches others in disciplined project leadership. Key Job Functions & Responsibilities Portfolio-Level Project Strategy Leads high-complexity programs with broad technical scope, significant investment, aggressive timing, or elevated business risk. Owns project scope convergence and ensures product strategy, user needs, CTQs, business case, and execution plan remain aligned. Influences senior stakeholders to resolve complex trade-offs and secure timely decisions, resources, and priorities. Anticipates how project decisions affect adjacent products, platforms, suppliers, operations, and future business needs. Execution, Risk & Decision Leadership Establishes an operating rhythm that aligns resources, functions, and global teams around critical outcomes. Anticipates risks before they affect the critical path and drives robust mitigation, contingency, and recovery plans. Leads teams through uncertainty and changing priorities while sustaining momentum and accountability. Escalates candidly with clear facts, business impact, options, recommendation, and required decision. Independently drives milestone and metric success across multiple projects or a major strategic program. Business, Quality & Launch Accountability Owns closure of gaps to product cost, tooling, capital, margin, performance, quality, compliance, supplier readiness, and launch targets. Guides investment and risk decisions using technical evidence, user impact, financial analysis, and schedule implications. Ensures manufacturing and supplier strategies are capable, scalable, and aligned to quality and volume requirements. Sponsors complex root-cause, recovery, and corrective-action efforts when major issues threaten the program. Organizational Leadership & Coaching Builds senior-level alignment across business units, functions, and global organizations. Simplifies complex technical and business topics for executive audiences without hiding risk or overstating confidence. Coaches Project Engineers and Project Leaders in scope convergence, planning, risk, escalation, and executive communication. Strengthens project leadership processes, standards, tools, and organizational learning. Required Qualifications Bachelor of Science in an engineering discipline or a closely related technical field. Minimum 8 years, preferred 10 years of relevant engineering, product development, manufacturing, or technical project leadership experience. Demonstrated success leading high-complexity or high-priority products through global development and launch. Advanced ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence senior leaders, resolve complex trade-offs, and maintain accountability. Strong business acumen, including product cost, investment, margin, risk, and portfolio implications. Strong technical judgment across design, validation, manufacturing, quality, compliance, and supplier development. Preferred Qualifications Experience with outdoor power equipment, power tools, consumer products, battery systems, or complex electromechanical platforms. Experience leading multi-product platforms, major supplier transitions, or programs with significant tooling and capital investment. Formal project management, systems engineering, Six Sigma, or related training. Demonstrated experience developing project leadership capability in others. Travel Up to 15% travel (international and domestic). TTI is a world-class leader in design, manufacturing and marketing of Power Tools, Hand Tools, Outdoor Power Equipment, and Floor Care and Appliances for consumers, professional and industrial users in the home improvement, repair and construction industries. Our unrelenting strategic focus on Powerful Brands, Innovative Products, Operational Excellence and Exceptional People drives our culture. TTI was founded by Mr. Horst Julius Pudwill and Prof. Roy Chi Ping Chung BBS JP in 1985, yet the history of TTI's unique and growing portfolio of world-famous brands stretches back at least one hundred and fifty years. Through a clear and consistent strategy of acquiring and developing established brands, TTI has grown to become a clear market leader in power tools, outdoor power equipment, hand tools and floor care appliances worldwide. TTI is proud of its own history, and proud, too, of the huge legacy of tradition and excellence that we have inherited from the brands that make up our Company today. TTI actively promotes a strong corporate culture of respect and ethical integrity. Our Values are our beliefs, principles and standards that do not change over time. Values are the resources we draw on when asked to make decisions. They form the groundwork for our ethical behavior. All that we do at TTI must be consistent with the values to which we subscribe.

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