Product Engineering Manager Job Description
Product engineering manager
provides guidance and recommendations on manufacturing improvement, quality, and cost reduction, including use of the LEAN Six Sigma and other statistical techniques.
Product Engineering Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Establish & track productivity performance of seasonally selected key projects
You're willing to risk rejection
You're not afraid of hard conversations and sharing your perspective
You're a natural leader but your team & colleagues see your humility
You're a creative revolutionary, forward thinking, & pro-active
You possess a solid sense of business acumen
You listen and communicate well
You're allergic to micromanagement
You're a natural leader but your team and colleagues see your humility
You're a creative revolutionary, forward thinking, and pro-active
Product Engineering Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Product Engineering Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, CAPM, DFSS, PMI, CISSP, LSS, HCISPP, CPM, TRS, FAA
Education for Product Engineering Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the product engineering manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technical, Mechanical Engineering, Science, Business, Education, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Management
Skills for Product Engineering Manager
Desired skills for product engineering manager include:
SPC
Both written and spoken English
DOE and the ability to use Structured Problem Solving techniques to drive to root cause and sustain improvements
Experience in adhering to quality management system processes and procedures considered an asset
Experience in the implementation and management of investments / modernisation
Healthcare / consumer related industrial company
Lean Manufacturing concepts
Moulded parts is highly desirable
Standard project management tools
Use of six sigma and statistical tools like process capability
Desired experience for product engineering manager includes:
Ensure project timelines are being met and procedural steps are being followed from initial design reviews to post launch "lessons learned"
Coordinate and develop methodologies to manufacture new products
Oversee the completion of all data elements related to New Product/Version control including the coordination of all estimates/ timelines/ costs
Manage engineering staff, (Computer Aided Design)CAD technicians, model makers and other resources to support manufacture of new and resourced products
Aid in the development and utilization of metrics to demonstrate the effectiveness, profitability and success of NPE
Ensures superb customer experience through best engineering practices, maniacal monitoring, and lock-step collaboration with customer support teams
Product Engineering Manager Examples
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Product Engineering Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a product engineering manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for product engineering manager
- Use metrics and quantitative analysis to measure product utility, gain insights, identify opportunities, and build consensus on product direction and roadmap
- Develop a strategic view of external technology developments to inform Modeling Engineering’s product direction
- Participate in all levels of EE team planning on a yearly, quarterly, and daytoday basis
- Create and maintain concrete, quantitative and descriptive profiles of customers and their needs
- Work with EE teams and customers to design and validate solutions to the most important customer problems, as they evolve over time
- Lead, develop, motivate, and manage a large, diverse Product Engineering R&D team across multiple sites
- Providing meaningful roles and assignments for R&D associates through talent and capability mapping
- Support and grow the existing WW Injection Systems portfolio of products, which are manufactured on four continents and are used in the delivery of patient care in over fifty countries
- Manage a large and complex existing global product portfolio to meet business needs and to innovate with respect to cost reduction and product improvements
- Partner and collaborate with leaders in other functions to ensure effective leadership support for cross-functional teams
Qualifications for product engineering manager
- Ability to analyze existing rapid iteration and development lifecycle processes / procedures to identify possible refinements & enhancements a plus
- Advanced level knowledge of Jira/Confluence and MS Share Point a plus
- Experience with BOM management (Engineering, Planning, Manufacturing and Service) and product variant management is a plus
- Knowledge in cross-organization operational processes
- Extensive knowledge in core engineering processes and tools
- Industrial & Management education/background in information system – preferred
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Product Engineering Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of product engineering manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for product engineering manager
- Contribute to the WW Injection Systems platform and MPS business innovation funnels through customer insights borne out of direct acquisition of customer needs and requirements
- Ownership of department people development, review and goal setting
- Lead group in delivering new products for the Residential HVAC business while meeting or exceeding the projects quality, delivery and cost goals
- Manage a team of product engineers to
- Communicate frequently with CPMs, TAs, Quality team, Performance team, Customer Engineer Leaders
- Communicate frequently and clearly to Management
- Promotes customer focused culture
- Promotes simplification projects to reduce issue resolution
- Must demonstrate ownership in difficult circumstances and show a sense of urgency to get things done according to expectations of customer and regional business
- Shares best practices within local Region and the business
Qualifications for product engineering manager
- 1-3 years of experience in an high-tech manufacturing company – preferred in international enterprise (Outstanding graduates are welcome to apply as well)
- Vast knowledge and proven experience in MS-Excel (Macros) & Business Intelligent (BI) tools
- Good English - Must
- While we build products to support financial modelers, financial experience is not a requirement
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in product design and development
- Minimum 2 years Medical Device experience
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Our growing company is hiring for a product engineering manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for product engineering manager
- Maintain weekly status dashboards and communications, produce quarterly look-backs to show utilization trends
- Provide technical leadership and drive talent development within the FLC CPE organization
- Responsible for the successfully managing the completion of several complex projects
- Prioritize projects among various product lines and business units to ensure that all safety, quality, manufacturing line support, cost reductions and product enhancements are addressed in support of each business unit
- Negotiate directly with the business unit leads to resolve priority issues
- Create and manage detailed project scope descriptions, cost estimates and implementation strategies for small and large scale projects
- Report on status to business units and Front Line Care Leadership Team on a regular basis
- Provide policy and direction that will result in the highest attainable quality products in the most efficient
- Responsible for the quality, practices and standard engineering activities to enhance and modify existing designs, improve production techniques and develop test procedures
- Provide support to work on multi-functional teams across multiple continents, international travel required
Qualifications for product engineering manager
- Demonstrated hands-on R&D impact as an individual contributor in product development and requirements management, including translation of customer requirements into product requirements, product specifications, and process specifications
- Deep understanding of disciplined product development through phase gate processes, regulatory and quality requirements
- Experience with high-volume manufacturing processes of disposable, injection molded products is preferred
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems and reduce sustainable solutions to practice
- Successful track record of identifying, recruiting, mentoring, developing, and managing high potential talent, including deep technical experts
- Demonstrated ability to form, inspire, and develop high-functioning, high-performing diverse teams
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of product engineering manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for product engineering manager
- Provide a safe work environment by ensuring that products are designed for safe manufacturability, usage by customers
- Guide product improvement teams to reduce costs and effectively use resources to introduce new products while maintaining the highest quality standards and full PDP/FDA/QSR compliance
- Driving critical issues and interface with senior management, providing daily management and/or
- Learn and diagnose operational processes to identify inefficiencies and improvement opportunities
- Rapidly develop improved processes and implement changes to drive efficiency and productivity improvements with essential measurement controls
- Ensure End-to-End improvement strategies are aligned with functional and business objectives
- Leading multi-function teams to accelerate completion of high value projects already underway and killing low value projects
- Assess external and internal process developments and develop integration strategies
- Determine utilization of internal and external resources to employ best practices to achieve objectives
- Drive collaboration with Sourcing, Manufacturing and RDE to ensure smooth implementation of cost savings and process improvements
Qualifications for product engineering manager
- Self-initiator, results driven, and action & detail oriented
- Highly collaborative both within the function and with other functions
- Design for Six Sigma preferred
- Development and implementation of R&D organizational tools, processes, standards and metrics, including establishment of best practices preferred
- Experience in the Biopharm/Single Use Industry is a plus
- Knowledge of a 3D drawing package is a plus
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Product Engineering Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of product engineering manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for product engineering manager
- Prepares invention disclosures, journal publication submissions, and presentation abstracts
- Advocate customer and business needs throughout product development phases (planning, concept, design, implementation, and testing)
- Apply user centered design methods to establish “ease of use” in product designs
- Effectively collaborate with various delivery partners located in multiple locations across the globe, including leads from the creative, architecture, development, testing and support disciplines, the business sponsors of each initiative
- Proven ability to convey complex information in a clear and concise manner
- Proven ability to collaborate well with all level of technology counterparts to deliver results
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with focus and precision
- Provide day-to-day oversight to Team Members, external vendors and agency partners in all delivery efforts, and will be expected to build and foster strong working relationships with key business and technology partners that sponsor each initiative to maintain leadership alignment throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Digital Check-in, Digital Key and Request Upon Arrival products
- Must possess deep knowledge of all functional elements and associated business rules within their assigned products
Qualifications for product engineering manager
- You are punctual and are a good organizer
- You are a good communicator an you are able to work in team and collaborate with different departments
- Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering
- Working experience with DRAM products and High speed DRAM interface
- Have a Bachelor's Degree plus 10 years of experience
- Proven experience in successfully managing PB & LPB employees