Mechanical Engineering Manager, Ind. Prod

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At Scott Safety, the work we do serves those who rely on our equipment to help keep them safe when it matters most. Across our business, our people turn expertise, innovation, and strong execution into products and experiences customers can depend on. Whatever your function, your contribution helps us serve customers and advance that purpose.

As the Mechanical Engineering Manager
, you'll lead the team responsible for developing the mechanical technologies that power Scott Safety's industrial life-safety products. Through a combination of technical leadership, talent development, and cross-functional collaboration, you'll help deliver innovative, reliable, and customer-focused solutions that protect workers in demanding environments and strengthen Scott Safety's position as an industry leader. This role offers the opportunity to shape product strategy, influence technology roadmaps, and build a high-performing engineering organization that transforms customer insights into differentiated products and long-term business value.

• Lead & Develop a High-Performing Engineering Organization: Build, mentor, and retain a high-performing team of mechanical engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, continuous improvement, and customer focus. Provide coaching, performance management, technical guidance, and career development to strengthen organizational capability and leadership succession.
• Drive Mechanical Product Strategy & Innovation: Partner with Product Management and cross-functional stakeholders to shape product roadmaps, evaluate emerging technologies, and translate customer needs into differentiated product concepts, designs, and innovations that improve performance, reduce risk, and create measurable business value.
• Lead New Product Development & Commercialization: Oversee the design, development, verification, validation, and launch of advanced mechanical life-safety products from concept through production, ensuring programs meet performance, quality, cost, schedule, regulatory, and customer requirements.
• Advance Engineering Excellence & Technical Capability: Establish and sustain rigorous engineering practices across product development activities, including PLM, Design for Manufacturing (DFM), DFMEA, tolerance analysis, simulation and modeling, statistical methods, design reviews, testing, verification, and validation processes. Continuously assess organizational capabilities and close technical skill gaps to support future business needs.
• Drive Product Simplification & Operational Performance: Partner with Product Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain teams to improve product manufacturability, reduce complexity, standardize components, minimize part and SKU proliferation, and resolve production, quality, and supply challenges while maintaining required safety, reliability, and compliance standards.
• Provide Technical Leadership for Critical Technologies: Develop and maintain organizational expertise in key mechanical technologies, including high-pressure pneumatic systems, regulators, cylinders, gauges, injection-molded plastics, soft goods, and related product technologies. Apply deep technical judgment to guide design decisions, mitigate risk, and improve product performance based on real-world customer usage.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related engineering discipline.
• 9+ years of experience developing and commercializing mechanical…