Job Description

• Be visionary

At FLIR, we have a simple but ambitious mission: to develop market-leading thermal and sensing technologies which enhance everyday life. From saving energy, to saving lives FLIR is making a real difference in our world.

Our products are used in a wide array of situations to rescue people in danger, detect criminals, conserve energy, navigate safely, provide security around the globe, and protect our environment.

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Summary

FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions (IIS), a division of FLIR systems, headquartered in the Greater Vancouver area, BC, addresses mainly 2 growing markets: Machine vision for the largest part of our activities, and People Flow Analytics.

Regarding Machine Vision: we provide to machinery manufacturers or system integrators imaging products and solutions that are used for quality inspection, measurement, traceability, vision guided automation and robotics, as well as intelligent traffic systems. Regarding People Analytics: we are currently focused on Retail Analytics, and we provide imaging products and solutions that are used to measure retail customers traffic, customers queuing time, customers flows in the retail space; Essentially our People Analytics products help to replicate the equivalent of web analytics in the physical world.

We are looking for a strong Leader to take on our VP, Engineering role at our Richmond, Canada. location. The VP, Engineering role is accountable for leading all the Engineering activities and direction at FLIR IIS.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Manage a department of engineering staff including a team of senior, manager, and director level reports, with on-time and on-budget execution
• Participate in the formulation of company and departmental objectives
• Manage the R&D budget: long and short-term planning, forecasting, monitoring, and reporting
• Manage the engineering organization that is both effective (focused on the right targets) and efficient (quality, throughput)
• Provide technical direction and oversight for the engineering development
• Work with Product Management, Operations and Sales leaders to create the company's technological innovation and development strategy to ensure an ongoing leadership position in Machine Vision
• Act as a FLIR ambassador to the industry by building relationship with key suppliers, customers, and partners

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in related discipline (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science)
• 10+ years of Engineering experience
• 10+ year of management experience
• Excellent interpersonal skills to work effectively with other company leaders
• Experience with mid-volume products preferred
• Experience with diverse engineering disciplines (Mech, Hardware, FPGA, Software) preferred
• Financial acumen and experience with budgets and P&L statements an asset

FLIR and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

FLIR is an equal opportunity employer.