Senior Engineering Leader: Product Design & Validation

Markent Personnel, Inc.; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Markent Personnel, Inc. seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead product design engineering from customer requirements through design validation and production release.

The role emphasizes guiding technical decisions, reviewing detailed designs, and mentoring engineers to maintain project delivery and product quality. The ideal candidate has substantial design engineering leadership experience, strong CAD/GD&T skills, and a track record of delivering complex assemblies in a manufacturing

Qualifications

• Progressive product design engineering experience with responsibility for complex technical decisions and design delivery.
• Engineering leadership experience managing people, priorities, and multiple development projects.
• Strong command of mechanical design, CAD, GD&T, tolerance analysis, materials, and verification methods.
• Ability to remain technically engaged in detailed design reviews and guide engineers through difficult design problems.
• Clear communication with customers, commercial teams, manufacturing personnel, and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the engineering team, establish priorities, allocate resources, and manage project commitments.
• Provide hands-on technical direction for product architecture, mechanical design, materials selection, tolerances, and design verification.
• Lead concept, preliminary, and detailed design reviews; challenge assumptions and resolve technical risks before release.
• Translate customer performance, environmental, and interface requirements into clear engineering specifications and validation plans.
• Oversee drawings, bills of materials, design calculations, engineering changes, and controlled product release.
• Partner with sales and customers on technical feasibility, application requirements, proposals, and custom product solutions.
• Collaborate with manufacturing and quality to improve manufacturability, address field or production failures, and support new product introduction.
• Build engineering capability through coaching, clear technical standards, and consistent design and project management practices.
• Experience with temperature sensing, sealing products, precision components, or engineered assemblies is preferred. A graduate engineering degree and experience improving engineering workflows are also valued.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Communication

Design reviews

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CAD

GD&T

Tolerance analysis

Materials selection

Job description

Markent Personnel, Inc. seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead product design engineering from customer requirements through design validation and production release.

The role emphasizes guiding technical decisions, reviewing detailed designs, and mentoring engineers to maintain project delivery and product quality. The ideal candidate has substantial design engineering leadership experience, strong CAD/GD&T skills, and a track record of delivering complex assemblies in a manufacturing