Product Development Manager - Packaged Industrial Refrigeration Systems

Product Development Manager – Packaged Industrial Refrigeration Systems Position Summary

The Product Development Manager leads the technical development, standardization, and release of packaged industrial refrigeration systems, including ammonia and CO₂-based solutions. This role serves as the technical integrator across mechanical, electrical, controls, vessels, and compliance activities, coordinating closely with manufacturing, suppliers, consultants, and internal stakeholders to bring new product lines from concept through prototype, validation, and release.

• Lead development of packaged industrial refrigeration systems, including prototype units and standardized product lines.
• Drive system-level design coordination across mechanical modules, electrical modules, vessels, condensers, and controls.
• Manage design reviews, track action items, and ensure technical readiness for prototype build and product line release.
• Support transition from prototype designs to repeatable, standardized product architectures.
• Lead laboratory testing and analyze performance data for system capability and operation.
• Lead efforts to standardize components and instrumentation across product lines.
• Evaluate and recommend components, instrumentation, electrical layouts, and piping strategies.
• Work directly with external suppliers and consultants on vessels, compressors, controls, and fabricated components.
• Review quotes, approve purchase orders, and manage submittal and approval workflows for critical components.
• Coordinate with consultants on structural, vibration, and hazard analyses supporting designs.
• Provide direct engineering support to manufacturing during prototype production builds.
• Resolve build issues related to drawings, hardware, purchased parts, and assembly sequencing.
• Support installed cost analysis and manufacturability improvements.
• Support compliance with applicable industrial refrigeration codes and standards (IIAR, UL, safety and hazard reviews).
• Participate in standards discussions affecting packaged refrigeration systems and relay impacts to development and marketing teams.
• Prepare and maintain hazard review and safety documentation.
• Act as technical liaison between engineering, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and field support.
• Provide regular updates to leadership through staff meetings, written updates, and design review documentation.
• Support field issues, customer escalations, and site visits related to system performance.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field (Master’s Degree desired).
• Minimum 8 years of work experience managing multi-disciplinary engineering efforts.
• Experience with industrial refrigeration equipment, including ammonia and CO₂ systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation and leadership updates.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience with FEA, CFD, and programming software desired.
• Ability to develop customized heat transfer capacity software.
• Experience with laboratory heat transfer testing and data reduction desired.
• Ability to interface internally with Product Development Engineering, Manufacturing, Controls, Sales, Marketing, Field Support, EHS.
• Ability to interface externally with component suppliers, fabrication vendors, consultants, and standards organizations.

Taneytown, MD. Candidate should expect no more than 10% travel for conferences, work locations, and customers within the US.

• Base pay with profit sharing bonus paid twice per year.
• Medical, Vision, & Dental Insurance.
• Employee Stock Ownership Program.
• Paid Holidays, Paid Vacation, Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave, Bereavement Pay, Paid Sick Leave.
• Company paid basic life insurance equivalent to base salary, with option for Supplemental Life.
• Profit Sharing Bonus.
• Long Term Disability.

In compliance with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Evapco, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.