Hardware Engineering Manager

Parker Hannifin; Washington (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Parker Hannifin seeks an Engineering Manager, Hardware to lead a high-performing hardware team focused on electrical/electronic design and embedded systems integration. The role drives validation, sustaining engineering, and cross-functional collaboration to meet customer, quality, and cost objectives.

Based at Washington, MO or Mirabel, QC, the onsite position requires strong technical judgement, people leadership, and the ability to deliver products from concept through production launches and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering required.
• Five+ years of engineering experience; supervisory experience preferred.
• Experience in refrigeration controls industry.
• Knowledge of firmware development life cycle practices and workflows.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across hardware, firmware, manufacturing, quality, and product management.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, resolve conflicts, and communicate with leadership and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction for assigned hardware engineering teams including electrical hardware, electronics, embedded firmware coordination, product validation, and related functions.
• Coach and develop direct reports responsible for hardware design, PCB development, component selection, validation, and related activities.
• Translate requirements into hardware plans, priorities, schedules, and deliverables.
• Lead hardware development for new products, improvements, sustaining engineering, cost reduction, and field support.
• Ensure projects meet cost, schedule, performance, reliability, manufacturability, safety, cybersecurity, and customer satisfaction targets.
• Prepare and review hardware documentation including schematics, layouts, BOMs, test/validation plans, and change records.
• Oversee hardware architecture, design verification, validation, and release readiness.
• Ensure compliance with Parker standards, industry regulations, and customer specs.
• Lead engineering planning and progress reporting; coordinate with project management.
• Maintain engineering change control for designs and related documentation.
• Support manufacturing, quality, lean, purchasing, and suppliers to resolve issues.
• Drive design for manufacturability, testability, reliability, and long-term support.
• Mitigate risks related to safety, supply chain, cybersecurity, and product liability.
• Monitor technology trends and supplier capabilities impacting hardware products.
• Coordinate with firmware, software, cybersecurity, product management, and other stakeholders.
• Participate in budgeting, staffing, and strategic planning.
• Develop and maintain hardware policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Support Parker business initiatives including continuous improvement and cost reduction.
• Identify opportunities for cost, productivity, and reliability improvements.
• Perform additional duties as required.

Skills

Leadership

Hardware engineering

Embedded systems

Firmware lifecycle

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in science or engineering

Tools

OrCAD

UL knowledge

Job description

Parker Hannifin is seeking an Engineering Manager, Hardware to lead a high-performing engineering team in the development of innovative, reliable hardware solutions that support critical motion and control technologies.

The Engineering Manager of Hardware and Embedded Systems is responsible for leading the hardware engineering function focused on electrical and electronic hardware design, embedded systems integration, device controls, product validation, and sustaining engineering support for new and existing products. This role provides technical leadership, people management, project execution oversight, and cross-functional coordination to deliver products that meet customer, business, quality, reliability, regulatory, manufacturability, serviceability, and cost objectives.

This position manages and develops engineers involved in hardware architecture, electrical/electronic design, circuit design, PCB development, component selection, controls integration, testing, validation, and product lifecycle support. This role requires strong technical judgment, leadership capability, and experience guiding hardware products from concept through production launch and ongoing field support. The Hardware Engineering Manager ensures engineering activities are aligned with project schedules, technical performance requirements, cost targets, quality standards, reliability expectations, cybersecurity interface considerations, supply chain needs, and competitive performance objectives.

This position will be filled at either our Mirabel, QC (CAN) or Washington, MO (USA) location and is an onsite role; remote work is not available.

The Hardware Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the improvement of existing hardware products and the development of new hardware product derivatives to meet defined customer, business, technical, regulatory, quality, reliability, and manufacturability requirements. This role has the authority to assign and direct available engineering resources, coordinate cross-functional support, recommend resource allocations, and participate in establishing project requirements, priorities, schedules, and technical objectives.

• Provide leadership and direction for assigned hardware engineering team(s), including electrical hardware, electronics, embedded firmware coordination, product validation, and related technical functions.
• Manage, coach, and develop direct reports responsible for hardware design, electrical engineering, PCB development, component selection, hardware validation, and related engineering activities.
• Translate product, customer, business, regulatory, safety, cybersecurity, and technical requirements into hardware engineering plans, priorities, schedules, resource assignments, and deliverables.
• Lead hardware development activities for new products, product improvements, sustaining engineering, cost reduction, quality improvement, production support, and field issue resolution.
• Ensure hardware engineering projects meet established objectives for cost, schedule, technical performance, reliability, manufacturability, serviceability, safety, compliance, cybersecurity, and customer satisfaction.
• Direct or delegate preparation and review of hardware engineering documentation, including design concepts, technical specifications, electrical schematics, PCB layouts, drawings, bills of material, test plans, validation plans, design review records, and engineering change documentation.
• Oversee hardware architecture, electrical design, component selection, design verification, validation testing, and release readiness for assigned products or platforms.
• Ensure hardware designs comply with applicable Parker engineering standards, industry standards, regulatory requirements, safety requirements, and customer specifications.
• Lead engineering planning activities, including project prioritization, resource allocation, milestone tracking, design reviews, project status reporting, and coordination with project management.
• Ensure effective engineering change control for hardware designs, production drawings, bills of material, component changes, test requirements, technical documentation, and related engineering records.
• Support Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Lean, Operations, Purchasing, suppliers, and service teams in resolving design, production, supplier, test, reliability, application, and field performance issues.
• Drive hardware design for manufacturability, testability, reliability, serviceability, cost effectiveness, and long-term product support.
• Maintain active risk avoidance and risk reduction activities for new and existing products, including risks related to product safety, component availability, reliability, manufacturability, compliance, supply chain, cybersecurity interface risks, and product liability.
• Monitor component technologies, competitive products, regulatory trends, engineering tools, supplier capabilities, and industry practices relevant to assigned hardware products and platforms.
• Support component obsolescence management, alternate component qualification, supplier transitions, and design updates required to maintain product availability and quality.
• Coordinate with firmware, software, cybersecurity, product management, project management, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, operations, suppliers, and other internal or external stakeholders.
• Support product liability investigations, customer issue analysis, warranty investigations, and lawsuit defense activities when required.
• Participate in budgeting, staffing plans, salary planning, performance reviews, capital planning, tooling programs, engineering software investments, laboratory planning, and test equipment planning.
• Develop, implement, and maintain hardware engineering policies, procedures, standards, workflows, design guidelines, and best practices as required.
• Support Parker business initiatives, including continuous improvement, automation, connected products, digital transformation, cost reduction, quality improvement, and risk reduction programs.
• Identify and submit cost reduction, cost avoidance, productivity improvement, quality improvement, reliability improvement, or risk reduction actions.
• Perform other duties as responsibilities required.
• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering required.
• Requires at least five years of Engineering experience, additionally prefer at least five years of Supervisory experience or equivalent
• Experience in refrigeration controls industry.
• Demonstrated knowledge of firmware development life cycle practices, including requirements definition, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering team and coordinate work across hardware, firmware, manufacturing, quality, and product management functions.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, resolve technical and resource conflicts, and communicate effectively with leadership, peers, employees, customers, and suppliers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing supervisors, technical leads, or multiple engineering disciplines.
• Experience with both physical product development and software-enabled or connected product development.
• Knowledge of hardware design, firmware development, embedded systems, firmware development life cycle practices, cybersecurity, validation, and release management.
• Knowledge of OrCAD, hardware component selection and UL knowledge preferred
• Experience supporting manufacturing operations, supplier development, field issue resolution, quality improvement, and cost reduction programs.
• Familiarity with project management tools, CAD/EDA tools, software development tools, requirements management systems, and engineering change control systems.
• Experience in industrial, electromechanical, automation, or connected product environments.

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.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

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