Product Launch Engineering Manager

Roll Forming Corp.; Shelbyville (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K Plan

Profit-Sharing Bonus

Paid time off

Job summary

voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation is seeking a Project Engineering Manager to lead and develop a team of engineers, guiding new products from handoff through design, tooling, production. You will align technical execution with business goals in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

The role requires proven leadership across multiple launches, cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Estimating, and Operations, and a focus on PPAP, schedules, budgets, and risk management.

Qualifications

• Manager I requires at least 2 years of related experience in new product launch or project leadership, plus 2 years leading teams.
• Manager II requires at least 5 years of related experience in new product launch or project leadership, plus 5 years leading teams.
• Manager III requires at least 7 years of related experience in new product launch or project leadership, plus 7 years leading teams.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously with competing priorities.
• Preferred: experience in roll forming, metal forming, high-volume manufacturing, or a related engineered manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop your team: Assign projects, balance workloads and resources, coach engineers, and oversee hiring, onboarding, training, and performance management.
• Own launch execution: Coordinate cross-functional teams from project definition through production release and PPAP approval.
• Keep projects on track: Develop integrated schedules, monitor milestones and budgets, identify risks, and implement corrective actions when timing, cost, quality, or performance varies from plan.
• Guide technical decisions: Support equipment, tooling, automation, fixtures, process capability, and DFMA.
• Drive production readiness: Oversee equipment design, procurement, build, delivery, installation, qualification, and validation activities.
• Connect engineering and business priorities: Partner with Sales and Estimating on RFQs, manufacturing concepts, capital requirements, technical solutions, and launch assumptions.
• Protect project financial performance: Monitor tooling, capital, engineering, and launch spending; identify overruns; communicate scope changes.
• Build strong partnerships: Collaborate with Product Development, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Tooling, customers, and suppliers.
• Improve how we launch: Standardize reporting, track metrics, and apply lessons learned to strengthen project controls.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

MBA

PMP certification

Job description

voestalpine Roll Forming Corporation is seeking a Project Engineering Manager to lead and develop a team of engineers, guiding new products from handoff through design, tooling, production. You will align technical execution with business goals in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

The role requires proven leadership across multiple launches, cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Estimating, and Operations, and a focus on PPAP, schedules, budgets, and risk management.