Manager, Mechanical Engineering Product Development

What We Offer

• An opportunity to work for a company that is 100% employee owned.
• As an employee-owner, you will be enrolled in our employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) program following one year of service.
• Annual company performance bonus in addition to base salary
• Flexibility to work from home 2 days per week
• Defined career paths so you’ll always know what’s next and what steps can get where you want to go
• Professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement and unlimited free access to Linked In Learning courses
• A competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, PTO, and paid holidays
• Expanded onsite wellness clinic offering preventive care services such as wellness screenings, annual physicals, and related lab work at no cost to employee-owners
• Achieve total well-being at our new Wellspring and Owners Hall facility, featuring 24/7 fitness center with a wide variety of cardio and strength training equipment. This facility reflects our continuous evolution in supporting our valued employee owners.
• Activities including department outings, holiday parties, and our annual company-wide Thanksgiving Dinner

• Lead and motivate department team members to ensure that NPD projects meet defined objectives and develop competencies within the Mechanical Engineering Center of Excellence.
• Responsible for hiring and staff development of Mechanical Engineers
• Monitor the quality of engineering solutions generated by the teams with a focus on continuously improving their effectiveness and efficiency.
• Work closely with teams and key component vendors to create and/or review system architectures to enable sustained growth.
• Coordinate with product management (PM) personnel to ensure that designated products are engineered and manufactured in compliance with quality, schedule and cost targets.
• Establish and manage expense and capital budgets for New Product Development.
• Maintain a long‑term capital plan to provide future visibility of major capital needs.
• Develop an annual plan for major new product development projects, development process enhancements, staffing needs, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Maintain a relationship with the Henny Penny Quality and Manufacturing teams to allow input into the manufacturing process and to enable the smooth hand-off of new products.
• Execute and control required design activities to support intellectual property, reliability, safety and performance objectives for our controls and equipment.
• Create and maintain an environment of ownership and accountability of projects and timelines for all team members.
• Provide thought leadership for the strategic direction of our mechanical systems, associated customer interfaces, IoT, and other related technologies.
• Consistently models company values and expected behaviors.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Aerospace Engineering, or Physics.
• Master’s degree in engineering or MBA a plus.
• Minimum 10+ years of combined engineering experience; ideally starting as an individual contributor, then transitioning to management roles.
• Minimum 3 years of supervisory experience and technical leadership.
• Track record of growing and scaling high performing engineering teams with a collaborative culture.
• Experience in the capital goods or food service equipment industry preferred.
• Ability to effectively utilize & partner with outside resources to achieve the budget and project objectives.
• Ability to work with highly technical products at a global level of support.
• Ability to effectively lead and organize cross‑functional meetings and teams in a professional manner.
• Excellent verbal and…