Senior Head of Firmware Smart Metering Solutions (m/f/d)

DIEHL Metering GmbH

Job Description

Digital transformation. Sustainability. Peacekeeping. Exciting tasks that we at Diehl are working on intensively with our five corporate divisions Metal, Controls, Defence, Aviation and Metering and our more than 16,000 employees. Discover fascinating technologies and apply. In a family-run company characterised by trust and courage, which is consistent and stable – by tradition.

For our site Diehl Metering GmbH in Nuremberg we are looking for a:

Senior Head of Firmware Smart Metering Solutions (m/f/d)


  • You lead the in­ter­na­tion­al firm­ware de­part­ment for de­vel­op­ment of our smart meter­ing solu­tions; by cre­at­ing an en­vir­on­ment based on trust, open com­mu­nic­a­tion and cre­at­ive think­ing you en­sure the suc­cess of our smart meter­ing product de­vel­op­ment.
  • You man­age the per­form­ance of your team including se­lec­tion of the ded­ic­ated tools and methods; plus you ensure the prop­er de­vel­op­ment of your team com­pet­ences.
  • You are re­spons­ible to plan your team ca­pa­city to have well-staffed R&D projects and you ensure that product de­vel­op­ment is fol­low­ing aligned guidelines as well as work­ing to­wards con­tinu­ous im­prove­ment.
  • You continuously enlarge the net­work with ex­tern­al part­ners and manage part­ners in the most ef­fi­cient way.
  • You com­mu­nic­ate busi­ness ex­pect­a­tions as well as in­form­a­tion to the teams and rep­res­ent the com­pany in de­vel­op­ment-re­lated com­mu­nic­a­tion with cus­tom­ers.

  • You have suc­cess­fully com­pleted your stud­ies in Elec­tric­al En­gin­eer­ing or sim­il­ar and have sev­er­al years of pro­fes­sion­al ex­per­i­ence in the field of com­plex new product de­vel­op­ment (em­bed­ded devices) as well as proven lead­er­ship skills in an in­ter­na­tion­al en­vir­on­ment.
  • You have know­ledge in low-power wide-area net­works (LoR­aWAN, NB IoT, mioty®, etc.).
  • You have ex­per­i­ence in over­see­ing the en­tire solu­tion value chain, in­clud­ing sensors, con­nectiv­ity net­works, back-end solu­tions and soft­ware ap­plic­a­tions, also in an in­ter­na­tion­al en­vir­on­ment.
  • You are target-oriented as well as team-ori­ent­ated and have a high so­cial com­pet­ence in lead­ing em­ploy­ees; your per­son­al­ity is char­ac­ter­ised by re­si­li­ence, self-mo­tiv­a­tion, or­gan­iz­a­tion­al skills and an open­ness for new chal­lenges.
  • Your are flu­ent in Eng­lish; an ad­di­tion­al lan­guage (e.g. Ger­man or French) is a plus. 

  • Professional and personal development
  • Tariff compensation
  • Flexible working hours
  • Canteen
  • Company mobile and laptop

Applications from severely handicapped individuals will be given preferential treatment in the case of equal suitability. If you wish to do so, please indicate your severely handicapped status – on a voluntary basis – in your application.

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