Product Development Engineering Manager

Parker Hannifin Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we've enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient. Our Purpose - Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow - comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond. The Engineered Polymer Systems Product Development team specializes in the design of Polyurethane, PTFE, and Elastomeric sealing solutions for linear dynamic and rotary dynamic applications across multiple market segments including Automotive, Energy, Industrial, and Aerospace and Defense. This position is for a strategic manager, who will be responsible to lead, manage, and provide technical direction to the linear sealing product development engineering team. This role will interface heavily with the broader cross functional team in support of progressing team and program objectives. They will have responsibility for working with business counterparts to define and execute on future research and development needs to support product development and strategic growth goals. Summary: Leads the Parker Engineered Polymer Systems Product Design Engineering team; owns the definition, execution, and continuous improvement of the Stage-Gate product development process, talent development, and the product technology roadmap. Partners with Commercial and Operations teams for opportunity vetting, and empowers Market Segment HPTs to prioritize and execute new opportunities based on available HPT resources. Essential Functions: * 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. * Own the EPS Stage-Gate product development process, templates, and design controls; ensure consistent application across Market Segment HPTs. * Empower and coach Market Segment HPTs to execute programs to technical, schedule, and cost targets; establish clear cadences and escalation paths. * 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. * 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. * 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... For full info follow application link. Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. U.S. Citizenship/Permanent Resident is required for most positions.