Product Engineering Manager

The Wittern Group
Des Moines, IA
Category Engineering
Job Description
Role Overview

The Product Engineering Manager will lead a multidisciplinary product engineering team responsible for new product development, product sustainment, and technical excellence. The team will work on building, leading, mentoring, and retaining a high-performing team, establishing team structure, capacity plans, resource allocation, budgets, and development paths that support product roadmaps, business objectives, and long-term organizational growth.

What You Will Do

The Product Engineering Manager will lead the execution of product development from concept through design, prototyping, validation, manufacturing readiness, launch, and post-launch support, while ensuring alignment to product objectives and business outcomes. The manager will also drive disciplined engineering practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure products are successfully commercialized and continuously improved throughout their lifecycle.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have proven leadership of multidisciplinary product engineering teams, demonstrated experience building teams and leaders that deliver through others, and experience bringing physical products from concept through industrialization, manufacturing, launch, and lifecycle support.

Requirements

  • Proven leadership of multidisciplinary product engineering teams in a manufacturing environment
  • Demonstrated experience building teams and leaders that deliver through others
  • Experience bringing physical products from concept through industrialization, manufacturing, launch, and lifecycle support
  • Working knowledge of embedded controller devices, firmware, electrical systems, and connected-device architecture
  • Practical knowledge of sheet metal product development, design for manufacturability, tooling, fabrication, assembly, and production readiness
  • Experience with APQP or similar product development process, verification and validation, design controls, risk management, root-cause analysis, change control, and continuous improvement
  • Clear executive, technical, customer, and cross-functional communication skills
  • Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related discipline
  • 10 years in Engineering, and 5 years of Engineering leadership experience in the development and manufacture of integrated consumer products
  • Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams

Benefits

  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plan
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
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