Product Development Engineering Manager

Summary

The Engineered Polymer Systems Product Development team specializes in the design of Polyurethane, PTFE, and Elastomeric sealing solutions for linear dynamic and rotary dynamic applications across multiple market segments including Automotive, Energy, Industrial, and Aerospace and Defense. This position is for a strategic manager, who will be responsible to lead, manage, and provide technical direction to the linear sealing product development engineering team. This role will interface heavily with the broader cross-functional team in support of progressing team and program objectives.

Essential Functions

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Design Engineers through regular 1:1s, performance coaching, individual development plans, and succession planning.

• Foster a culture of accountability, safety, inclusion, and continuous improvement; recognize and address performance gaps; maintain a skills matrix and targeted training plan.

• Own the EPS Stage-Gate product development process, templates, and design controls; ensure consistent application across Market Segment HPTs.

• Empower and coach Market Segment HPTs to execute programs to technical, schedule, and cost targets; establish clear cadences and escalation paths.

• Manage the new product development and sustainment portfolio; align priorities to divisional strategy and the product technology roadmap.

• Track portfolio health (gate readiness, schedule adherence, technical and manufacturing risk, engineering spend vs. plan) and remove roadblocks.

• Partner with Commercial, BD, and Value Stream leaders to assess opportunities and drive quote/kill decisions.

• Hold teams accountable for gate criteria, deliverable quality, and risk mitigation; support supplier/partner engagement as needed.

• Ensure production readiness of new product with operations, drive completion of necessary project documentation, and launch product with product vitality index tracking.

• Define and maintain the EPS product technology roadmap; identify and close technology and capability gaps within design engineering.

• Define and report KPIs for team capability and engagement, time-to-market, launch quality, design to cost, and engineering productivity.

• Drive collaboration between EPS and customer engineering teams.

• Establish and maintain relationships with counterparts at key customers.

• Protect Parker intellectual property and ensure compliance with confidentiality, data governance, and export control requirements (e.g., ITAR/EAR as applicable).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a science technical discipline; PE is a plus, MS or MBA preferred.
• 12-15 years of product development engineering experience, including prior management/supervisory responsibility for 4 or more years.
• Advanced knowledge of engineering theories, including either mechanical, electronic, packaging, and/or optics engineering theories, principles, concepts, techniques, project management and control, concurrent engineering, industry practices, regulations, and policies related to division products, services, markets, objectives and strategies.
• Ability to apply comprehensive knowledge of other related engineering areas from other experts to own area of expertise.