Global Engineering Manager - Core Products & NPD Leadership

Amphenol CIT; Village of Endicott (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amphenol Industrial Operations in Endicott, NY, seeks an Engineering Manager for North America to lead a multi-location engineering organization supporting AIO products and technologies. You will oversee Core Product Engineering, New Product Development, manufacturing support, and sustaining engineering, guiding design, validation, and cost reduction initiatives.

The role requires partnering with product management, operations, quality, sourcing, sales, and senior leadership to deliver on

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering; Mechanical Engineering preferred.
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Engineering Management, or MBA preferred.
• 10+ years in connector product design, product engineering, manufacturing engineering support, or new product development.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership or engineering management experience.
• Experience leading global engineering teams across multiple locations.
• Strong experience with Core Products, New Product Development, product lifecycle management, and manufacturing support.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop engineering teams across Endicott, Nogales, China, and remote sites.
• Establish engineering goals, priorities, workload balance, and resource allocation.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
• Create a culture of accountability, innovation, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Support succession planning and organizational development for the global engineering team.
• Manage technical aspects of Core Products including sustaining engineering, lifecycle management, cost reduction, and product improvements.
• Oversee engineering change management, product documentation accuracy, and product release packages.
• Support operations, quality, sourcing, project managers, and manufacturing locations with strong technical and product knowledge.
• Drive quality improvements, manufacturability improvements, productivity improvements, and cost reduction initiatives.
• Lead all technical aspects of new product development projects from concept through production launch.
• Manage configuration, detailed design, tolerance analysis, FMEA, prototyping, pilot builds, validation, qualification, and production readiness.
• Ensure products meet customer requirements, industry standards, cost targets, quality expectations, and schedule commitments.
• Utilize Lean Product Development techniques to improve speed, learning, execution, and design quality.
• Collaborate with Product Management and Sales to define product requirements and development priorities.
• Review and approve engineering documentation including BOMs, ECNs, drawings, specifications, test plans, qualification reports, FAIs, and product release documents.
• Provide technical leadership in connector design, cable assemblies, contact systems, thermal performance, signal integrity, environmental sealing, materials, plating, injection molding, stamping, machining, and assembly processes.
• Ensure engineering work complies with applicable standards, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications.
• Drive technical problem-solving using Root Cause Analysis, A3s, Knowledge Reports, DFMEA/PFMEA, and design reviews.
• Manage multiple engineering projects and priorities simultaneously while maintaining focus on technical details and execution.
• Provide timely project status updates, identify risks, and drive actions to maintain schedule, cost, quality, and technical objectives.
• Support strategic customers, technical reviews, customer visits, and product presentations as required.
• Work cross-functionally with design, operations, quality, sourcing, product management, sales, marketing, finance, suppliers, and customers.
• May work with outside engineering services or suppliers to support engineering and other departments.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.
• Partner with global Operations teams to improve production, processes, quality, efficiency, and cost.
• Support manufacturing issue resolution, corrective action, and continuous improvement activities.
• Support fixture design, tooling improvements, automation projects, assembly process improvements, and process validation.
• Ensure design-for-manufacturing and design-for-assembly practices are used during product development and sustaining engineering.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master’s degree in Engineering/Engineering Management/MBA

Tools

SolidWorks

Creo/Pro Engineer

ERP systems

MS Office

Job description

Amphenol Industrial Operations in Endicott, NY, seeks an Engineering Manager for North America to lead a multi-location engineering organization supporting AIO products and technologies. You will oversee Core Product Engineering, New Product Development, manufacturing support, and sustaining engineering, guiding design, validation, and cost reduction initiatives.

The role requires partnering with product management, operations, quality, sourcing, sales, and senior leadership to deliver on