RePower Program: Manager, Product Design, Drafting & Change Release

Program Overview

RePower, our return-to-work program, is specifically designed for experienced professionals who have at least five years of prior work experience and have taken a career break of two or more years for any reason. Participants are supported with meaningful project work aligned to their expertise, along with dedicated mentoring, training, and professional development opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Drive Change Request Throughput: Elevate CR execution by identifying bottlenecks early, negotiating priorities with engineering partners, and ensuring the team consistently delivers on program timelines.
• Strengthen Global Workflow Integration: Improve alignment across global drafting and design teams by harmonizing processes, sharing best practices, and ensuring consistent support for change management activities.
• Enhance Workload Visibility: Build a clear, data-driven view of open Change Requests to enable smarter scheduling, resource balancing, and predictable delivery for engineering stakeholders.
• Develop Technical Breadth: Gain working knowledge of key components—such as injectors, pumps, rails, sensors, ECMs, and brakes—to better understand design intent and support more informed decision-making.
• Apply Systems Thinking: Use interface awareness and integration principles to help teams avoid downstream issues, improve cross-component alignment, and strengthen product reliability.
• Raise the Standard of Technical Documentation and Release Packages: Ensure clarity, accuracy, and traceability across the full product lifecycle.
• Contribute to Strong VPI Execution: Understand requirements flow-down, risk management, and verification/validation expectations.
• Model Effective Decision-Making: Demonstrate sound judgment under pressure—balancing schedule, quality, and resource constraints—to keep work moving and maintain confidence across engineering partners.

Requirements

• Lead and Support Your Team: Build strong relationships with hourly team members, hold monthly 1:1s, manage eTime approvals, and establish trust through consistent, people-focused leadership.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner effectively with teams in Columbus, Pune, and Wuhan, and work closely with Product Engineering and Program Leaders to drive timely, high-quality Change Request completion.
• Navigate Systems & Processes Quickly: Learn key tools like Windchill and eTime, understand work scheduling for open Change Requests, and ramp up on the VPI product development process within the first 60 days.
• Communicate & Coordinate with Confidence: Bring strong interpersonal, communication, and project-management skills to align priorities, participate in weekly CR and global drafting meetings, and keep work moving across multiple engineering functions.

Qualifications

• College, university, or equivalent Bachelor's degree in Engineering or appropriate STEM field is required.
• Post-graduate (Master's) degree relevant to this discipline area may be required for select roles.

Skills

• Experience Prior Senior or Lead Engineer equivalent work experience in a relevant discipline area is required with a demonstrated track record of technical problem solving and quality decision making.
• Knowledge of MS Office tools is preferred.

Benefits

This is a six-month, paid opportunity with benefits, designed to provide access to robust internal resources and a supportive environment as you re-engage in your career.

Pay

Compensation for this role is $9,200/month (subject to applicable withholdings), plus benefits such as health and wellness while in the returnship program.

Schedule

This role requires a consistent onsite presence typically 4–5 days per week to effectively support, coach, and collaborate with team members who perform their work in person. Remote or off-site arrangements during the initial assignment period are not supported, as the role depends on direct engagement, real-time communication, and hands-on leadership.