Design Engineering Manager Plainville, CT, US Posted ago

Position: Design Engineering Manager Plainville, CT, US Posted 3 months ago
Design Engineering Manager | Ralliant The product is under implementation.
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** Purpose of Position:
** The
** Design Engineering Manager
** owns and continuously improves the engineering execution system that enables efficient, high‐quality delivery of sustaining, engineering change, production scale-up and product development work. This role provides global multisite management of engineering work streams, CAD and PDM administration, configuration and master data governance, and design engineering oversight, ensuring engineering execution flows predictably from request through release. This is a leadership role focused on people, process, data and governance.  

Success is measured by throughput, data integrity, and team effectiveness.
** Essential Functions**:
* ** Engineering Operations & Workflow Leadership**  + Own intake, triage, prioritization, and flow of engineering workflows including ECR/ECO, VAVE, customs configurations, engineering services support request and related sustaining work streams across multiple global sites.  + Establish and maintain clear workflows, decision criteria, and escalation paths.  + Ensure engineering work is in the appropriate workstream, prioritized, assigned, and actively progressing.  + Track and manage operational KPIs such as backlog health, OTD, rework, and aging.
* ** CAD Standards & Design Engineering Oversight**  + Own Solid Works standards, templates, libraries, and best practices  + Provide design engineering oversight and technical gatekeeping.  + Review and approve drawings and design outputs as required by process.
* ** PDM Administration & Engineering Systems Ownership**  + Serve as owner and administrator for multiple global sites using Solid Works CAD and PDM vault.  + Own system configuration for access, permissions, lifecycle states, and workflow routing.  + Design, implement, and evolve workflows supporting sustaining, engineering change, and NPI activities.  + Partner with IT and other stakeholders on system stability, upgrades, and adoption.  

+ Ensure PDM is a trusted system of record for engineering, product development data and associated files.
* ** Master Data & Configuration Management**  + Own configuration management rules and governance across CAD, PDM, PIM, Website and ERP data sources.  Ensure single source of truth and digital thread for product definition.  + Ensure alignment and integrity of CAD models, drawings, bills of material, and item master data.  + Define release criteria, change rules, approval requirements, and lifecycle transitions.  + Manage inactive, obsolescence, and end‐of‐life transitions.  

+ Protect downstream manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial operations from data errors.
* ** People Leadership & Development**  + Lead and develop Design Engineering resources that will work across a variety of sustaining engineering projects, and new product development scale-up projects.  + Manage appropriate workload to meet schedules and deadlines.  + Coach team members toward increased capability, cross-training, tool utilization, and effectiveness.  + Build a sustainable operating model built on standard work, process governance, and accountability.
* ** Cross****‐
**** Functional Collaboration**  + Partner closely with Product Assurance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Commercial teams.  + Support VAVE, lifecycle optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives.  + Serve as a central point of contact for engineering systems, data, and workflow topics.
** Critical Success Factors:
*** Global multisite engineering work flows predictably with clear ownership, minimal rework and performance metrics visibility published.
* Design, project and data resources operate with efficiency, accuracy, and governance.
* CAD, PDM, and configuration systems operate with data integrity and integration.
* No single point of failure within engineering operations, change management, and…