Product Development Engineering Manager

Parker Hannifin; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Parker Hannifin is seeking a strategic Manager to lead the Engineered Polymer Systems Product Design Engineering team in Salt Lake City. You will own the Stage‑Gate process, drive talent development, and align the product technology roadmap with business goals.

You will partner with Commercial and Operations to vet opportunities, ensure production readiness, and manage a portfolio of new product programs and sustaining efforts. Strong leadership and deep engineering expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science; PE is a plus; MS or MBA preferred.
• 12–15 years in product development engineering with 4+ years in management/supervision.
• Advanced knowledge of mechanical, electronic, packaging, or optics engineering and related practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a team of Product Design Engineers with regular 1:1s and development plans.
• Foster accountability, safety, inclusion, and continuous improvement; maintain skills matrix and training plans.
• Own the EPS Stage‑Gate product development process, templates, and design controls across Market Segment HPTs.
• Empower and coach Market Segment HPTs to meet technical, schedule, and cost targets with clear cadences.
• Manage the new product development and sustainment portfolio; align priorities with divisional strategy and tech roadmap.
• Track portfolio health, gate readiness, schedule adherence, and risk; remove roadblocks.
• Partner with Commercial, BD, and Value Stream leaders to vet opportunities and guide decisions.
• Define and report KPIs for team capability, time‑to‑market, launch quality, and design to cost.

Skills

Product Design Engineering

Engineering Management

Project Management

Stage-Gate Process

Cross-functional Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

MS or MBA preferred

PE is a plus

Job description

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 gaps within design engineering.
• Define and report KPIs for team capability and engagement, time‑to‑market, launch quality, design to cost, and engineering productivity.
• Drive collaboration between EPS and customer engineering teams.
• Establish and maintain relationships with counterparts at key customers.
• Protect Parker intellectual property and ensure compliance with confidentiality, data governance, and export control requirements (e.g., ITAR/EAR as applicable).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a science technical discipline; PE is a plus, MS or MBA preferred.
• 12‑15 years of product development engineering experience, including prior management/supervisory responsibility for 4 or more years.
• Advanced knowledge of engineering theories, including either mechanical, electronic, packaging, and/or optics engineering theories, principles, concepts, techniques, project management and control, concurrent engineering, industry practices, regulations, and policies related to division products, services, markets, objectives and strategies.
• Ability to apply comprehensive knowledge of other related engineering areas from other experts to own area of expertise.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affiliation­ative 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. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations. (Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor) If you would like more information about Equal Employment Opportunity as an applicant under the law, please go to Employees & Job Applicants | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission