Design Engineering Lead – NPD & Team Leadership

Aalberts Integrated Piping Systems Americas; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

12 paid holidays

Generous paid time off

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Aalberts Integrated Piping Systems Americas is seeking a Design Engineering Manager to lead a team of design engineers across multiple product lines, driving new product development, major enhancements, and strategic engineering initiatives. This is a working manager role combining people leadership with technical oversight through the full product lifecycle.

You will provide technical direction, guide design decisions, manage project execution, and mentor engineers while remaining actively

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience with demonstrated success developing mechanical products within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience building team capability, improving engineering processes, and establishing clear priorities, routines, and accountability within a technical organization.
• Experience leading engineering projects, mentoring engineers, or supervising technical teams.
• Strong understanding of mechanical design principles, manufacturing processes, product validation, engineering risk management, and engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of design engineers and foster a collaborative, accountable engineering culture.
• Lead new product development and major enhancement projects from concept through commercialization, ensuring alignment with business objectives, customer needs, schedules, financial goals, and launch readiness.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, engineering problem solving, product validation, risk assessment, and key design decisions throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Lead engineering execution within the NPD stage‑gate process, ensuring projects are properly scoped, designed, validated, industrialized, launched, and reviewed against business and customer objectives.
• Partner with Product Management to translate product strategy, Voice of Customer insights, and market opportunities into practical engineering requirements and scalable product designs.

Skills

Team leadership

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Engineering problem solving

Structured product development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (ABET-accredited preferred)

Tools

3D CAD

PDM/PLM systems

DFMEA

DFM/DFA

Job description

Aalberts Integrated Piping Systems Americas is seeking a Design Engineering Manager to lead a team of design engineers across multiple product lines, driving new product development, major enhancements, and strategic engineering initiatives. This is a working manager role combining people leadership with technical oversight through the full product lifecycle.

You will provide technical direction, guide design decisions, manage project execution, and mentor engineers while remaining actively