Product Line Manager - Dry Cooler

About Us

We are a rapidly growing manufacturer of air-cooled heat exchangers, dry coolers, and mission-critical thermal systems serving the data center, energy, and industrial markets. With a strong commitment to innovation, sustainability, reliability, and manufacturable design, we are expanding our dry cooler product line to support increasing demand for efficient heat rejection solutions across high-growth applications.

Role Overview

The Product Line Manager (PLM) will serve as the central point of accountability for the Dry Cooler product line, ensuring alignment between customer requirements, market opportunity, engineering priorities, cost targets, and manufacturing execution.

This role combines customer-facing technical expertise, product-line ownership, and close coordination with Engineering / R&D, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Sales, and Service to ensure our dry cooler solutions are competitive, scalable, manufacturable, and aligned with market needs.

Key Aspects of the Role

• Acting as the technical and commercial lead for the Dry Cooler product line, supporting customers, sales, and internal teams with application-specific heat rejection solutions.
• Owning the dry cooler product roadmap, translating customer needs, market trends, competitive positioning, and business priorities into actionable product-line strategies.
• Serving as the primary interface between the Dry Cooler product line and Engineering / R&D to align development priorities, validation requirements, performance targets, and release readiness with customer and market needs.
• Leading cross-functional alignment between Sales, Engineering / R&D, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Service to ensure products are technically sound, commercially competitive, and ready for repeatable production.
• Coordinating engineering sign-off and product readiness prior to manufacturing release, with a strong focus on manufacturability, cost, quality, lead time, delivery performance, and field reliability.

Application Engineering

• Provide technical expertise in the application of dry coolers, air-cooled heat exchangers, adiabatic / spray-assist systems, and related heat rejection equipment across core market sectors.
• Support sales and business development teams with product selection, sizing, configuration, customization, budgetary support, and proposal generation.
• Review customer specifications and project requirements, including thermal duty, ambient conditions, fluid selection, pressure drop, sound, controls, electrical, corrosion protection, certification, and site constraints.
• Develop and maintain selection tools, performance models, application guides, technical documentation, and proposal standards for the Dry Cooler product line.
• Serve as a technical liaison with customers, consultants, EPCs, contractors, and internal teams to ensure proposed solutions meet project requirements and are commercially executable.
• Support value engineering, alternate selections, and standard product configurations to balance performance, cost, lead time, manufacturability, and installation requirements.

Product Line Leadership

• Own and manage the lifecycle of the Dry Cooler product line from concept through launch, market support, product refresh, and ongoing improvement.
• Gather and prioritize product requirements through customer feedback, competitive analysis, market research, field performance, manufacturing input, and internal commercial priorities.
• Define product specifications, platform architecture, feature enhancements, performance targets, cost targets, and standard option sets in alignment with business goals.
• Lead pricing, value positioning, target margin logic, and option strategy for the Dry Cooler product line in coordination with Sales and leadership.
• Maintain clear ownership of roadmap priorities, product direction, platform standardization, and cross-functional decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to improve product competitiveness, including capacity density, footprint, sound performance, energy efficiency, adiabatic capability, controls integration, shipping efficiency, modularity, and manufacturability.

Engineering / R&D Interface

• Act as the primary interface between the Dry Cooler product line and Engineering / R&D teams.
• Translate customer needs, market requirements, and product-line priorities into clear engineering and development requirements.
• Work with Engineering / R&D to define validation priorities, thermal performance targets, sound targets, structural requirements, electrical and controls requirements, corrosion protection requirements, and release criteria for new products and enhancements.
• Review development progress and ensure proposed solutions align with application needs, manufacturability, cost targets, product strategy, and customer specification trends.
• Coordinate engineering sign-off and cross-functional readiness prior to manufacturing release, including drawings, bills of material, routings, test requirements, documentation, and quality checkpoints.
• Support product change management and continuous improvement by ensuring field feedback, manufacturing input, supplier constraints, and customer requirements are reflected in development priorities.

Manufacturing Readiness and Product Industrialization

• Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Quality to ensure dry cooler products are designed and released with manufacturability, repeatability, quality, and cost-effective delivery in mind.
• Review product designs and proposed changes for manufacturability, production feasibility, material availability, factory flow, shipping constraints, and operational readiness prior to release.
• Support the transition from development to production by identifying and resolving product-readiness risks early, particularly around coil construction, fan systems, casing design, controls, spray systems, piping, lifting, and logistics.
• Balance customization, standardization, cost, lead time, and delivery performance across the Dry Cooler product line.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives based on manufacturing feedback, supplier performance, field experience, commissioning feedback, and customer application learnings.
• Support ownership and coordination of product approvals, certifications, and compliance requirements, including UL, CE, UKCA, EMC, PED / pressure equipment considerations, seismic, sound, and other applicable customer or regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in dry coolers, air-cooled heat exchangers, HVAC, mission-critical cooling systems, industrial heat rejection, or related thermal equipment.
• Solid understanding of thermodynamics, heat transfer, air / fluid dynamics, pressure drop, fan systems, sound, materials, and practical heat exchanger design trade-offs.
• Experience with product development, cross-functional release processes, customer specification review, and product-line support in a technical manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of manufacturability, production readiness, supplier constraints, quality requirements, and practical engineering trade-offs in a manufacturing setting.
• Familiarity with product-line management, lifecycle ownership, product strategy, pricing logic, and competitive positioning in a technical environment.
• Proficient with thermal modeling, heat exchanger selection software, CAD tools, Microsoft Office, and structured product documentation.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, R&D, Manufacturing, Sales, Supply Chain, Quality, Service, and customer teams.

Why Join Us

This is a high-impact opportunity to shape the future of our Dry Cooler product line in a rapidly growing and innovation-driven business. The role offers the chance to work across commercial, technical, and operational functions while driving products from market need through to successful release, scalable manufacturing, and ongoing improvement.