Product Engineering Manager
Job in
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, 50319, USA
Listed on 2026-09-24
Listing for:
Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-24
Job specializations:
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Engineering
Product Engineer, Operations Management, Quality Engineering
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Location 8040 University Blvd,Des Moines, IA, ,United States
- Job Category Engineering, Product Management
- Industry Manufacturing
- Employee Type Non Union
- Required Degree 4 Year Degree
- Manage Others Yes
- Build, lead, mentor, and retain a high-performing multidisciplinary product engineering team responsible for new product development, product sustainment, and technical excellence.
- Establish team structure, capacity plans, resource allocation, budgets, and development paths that support product roadmaps, business objectives, and long-term organizational growth.
- Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, customer-focused problem-solving, and disciplined product development while developing future technical leaders.
- Lead through the team by setting priorities, removing barriers, reviewing outcomes, and driving cross-functional collaboration with Product Management, Manufacturing, Quality, Customer Support, Sales, Marketing, and Software Development to deliver successful product outcomes.
- Partner with Product Owners to translate product vision, customer requirements, and roadmap priorities into engineering plans, technical solutions, and actionable development activities.
- Lead the execution of product development from concept through design, prototyping, validation, manufacturing readiness, launch, and post-launch support while ensuring alignment to product objectives and business outcomes.
- Drive disciplined engineering practices including APQP, design reviews, verification and validation, risk management, change control, documentation, and quality standards to deliver reliable and manufacturable products.
- Collaborate with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Software Development teams to ensure products are successfully commercialized, effectively supported, and continuously improved throughout their lifecycle.
- Build the team and operating model responsible for the long-term performance and sustainability of released products.
- Improve product quality, reliability, serviceability, manufacturability, availability, compliance, cost, and margin throughout the product lifecycle.
- Use customer and product owner feedback, warranty data, field service information, manufacturing performance, support trends, and product telemetry to identify and prioritize improvements.
- Lead root-cause problem solving, corrective action, value engineering, component lifecycle planning, obsolescence management, and technical debt reduction.
- Ensure existing products remain supportable, competitive, profitable, and aligned with changing customer and regulatory requirements.
- Engineering portfolio balance and delivery against committed priorities.
- New product development milestones, APQP gate completion, launch readiness, and time to market.
- Post-launch performance, product adoption, customer outcomes, and revenue or margin contribution.
- Quality, reliability, warranty, field issues, serviceability, and corrective-action trends.
- Hardware-software integration quality, release coordination, system validation, and connected-product performance.
- Team capability, leadership development, retention, succession readiness, and employee engagement.
- Proven leadership of multidisciplinary product engineering teams in a manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated experience building teams and leaders that deliver through others.
- Experience bringing physical products from concept through industrialization, manufacturing, launch, and lifecycle support.
- Working knowledge of embedded controller devices, firmware, electrical systems, and connected-device architecture.
- Practical knowledge of sheet metal product development, design for manufacturability, tooling, fabrication, assembly, and production readiness.
- Experience with APQP or similar product development process, verification and validation, design controls, risk management, root-cause analysis, change control, and continuous improvement.
- Clear executive, technical, customer, and cross-functional communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related discipline. Equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- 10 years in Engineering, and 5 years of Engineering leadership experience in the…
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