Parker Hannifin is looking to fill a strategic manager role to lead, manage, and provide technical direction to the linear sealing product development engineering team, with responsibility for working with business counterparts to define and execute on future research and development needs to support product development and strategic growth goals.
Requirements
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Own the EPS Stage-Gate product development process, templates, and design controls; ensure consistent application across Market Segment HPTs.
- 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.
- 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.
Other
- 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.
- Empower and coach Market Segment HPTs to execute programs to technical, schedule, and cost targets; establish clear cadences and escalation paths.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.
