Senior Manager. Hardware Engineering

About Us

Det-Tronics is a $200M global technology leader in industrial life safety solutions, specializing in high-end flame and gas detection and automation control systems. As part of Spectrum Safety Solutions with 1,700 employees across 20+ countries we serve mission-critical environments in oil & gas, clean energy, marine, and infrastructure. Backed by Sentinel Capital Partners, we’re driving innovation and growth across our portfolio.

About the role

The Sr. Manager, Hardware Engineering is a key leadership role within the Det-Tronics Engineering organization responsible for leading the hardware team (electrical and mechanical engineering) that develops and sustains world-class fire and gas detection products. This position drives the execution of the hardware technology roadmap, ensuring the successful development of innovative, reliable, and cost-effective products while maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, regulatory compliance, and manufacturability. The role combines strong people leadership with deep technical oversight. The successful candidate will lead multidisciplinary hardware teams through all phases of product development, from concept generation and requirements definition through design, verification, validation, certification, manufacturing launch, and lifecycle support. As a member of the engineering leadership team, this individual will contribute to product strategy, technology planning, organizational development, and continuous improvement initiatives while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and mentor a team of mechanical and electrical engineers, fostering a high-performance culture focused on innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Recruit, retain, and develop top engineering talent.
• Establish clear goals, performance expectations, and career development plans for engineering staff.
• Promote employee engagement and provide coaching to support technical and leadership growth.
• Lead the execution of hardware development activities for new product introductions and sustaining engineering projects.
• Ensure projects are delivered on schedule, within budget, and meet performance, reliability, and quality objectives.
• Guide engineering teams through stage-gate or design control processes, ensuring appropriate technical rigor and compliance to documentation requirements, processes and deliverables throughout the product lifecycle.
• Drive team and cross functional form and regular informal design reviews and technical decision-making to address complex engineering challenges and technical risks.
• Partner with program management to assign proper resources and ensure team performs to expected technical, schedule, resource, and business priorities and project commitments.
• Collaborate with Systems & Technology team and Firmware Design and Development teams to develop system architecture, evaluate feasibility (technical/cost/schedule), and provide work breakdown plans/schedules for projects.
• Provide technical oversight for electrical and mechanical system architecture, product design, component selection, environmental performance, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Ensure designs comply with applicable industry standards, safety regulations, hazardous location requirements, and certification requirements.
• Drive best practices in product design including requirements, engineering analysis (tolerance, fitment, performance