Product Development Manager

1 week ago

New Bremen, Ohio, United States Crown Equipment Corporation Full time

About Crown Equipment Corporation

Crown Equipment Corporation is a leading global manufacturer of material handling solutions, renowned for its innovative product design, advanced engineering, and exceptional customer service. Our company is dedicated to revolutionizing the material handling industry with cutting-edge technologies and solutions.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Product Development Manager to lead our product engineering group in the development of vehicle systems and software. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for making individual contributions to engineering and design issues, providing technical and product guidance to systems and software development teams, and overseeing project planning, supervision, and technical review.

Key Responsibilities

  • Project Planning, Supervision, and Technical Review
    • Design workflow charts, man-hours, materials, and activities needed to complete projects.
    • Oversee the development of project definitions, specifications, and guidelines.
    • Ensure projects meet objectives and lead and manage assigned resources to ensure project timeliness and direction.
    • Establish scope and work priority, answer questions, give direction, and monitor project activities.
    • Monitor and ensure the integrity of design is maintained through the use of sound engineering practice, conformance to product goals, specifications, company, and industry standards.
    • Participate and provide feedback in engineering/design reviews.
    • Review test results to ensure compliance to company and industry standards or guidelines.
    • Propose and implement tools and other improvements to the product development process.
    • Resolve engineering design issues.
  • Product and Technology Champion
    • Champion and lead the development of new products.
    • Build product knowledge for assigned truck models or products.
    • Study competitive products and new emerging technologies, making recommendations for how to upgrade, improve, and evolve both product and process.
    • Work directly with customers, sales teams, and development teams to ensure products meet customer requirements.
    • Study customer applications and propose innovative products and features that improve customer processes.
    • Identify customer application issues and propose solutions to improve those issues.
    • Conduct product reviews to ensure that a competitive and innovative product is released for production.
  • Leadership and Communication
    • Regularly communicate project status to supervisors, management, and other departments.
    • Communicate project objectives, expectations, and company-related information to the project team.
    • Monitor staff quality of work, productivity, and review with supervisors.
    • Provide leadership while collaborating with other department managers to coordinate efforts and schedule for the development of components and other deliverables necessary to complete projects.
  • Employee Development
    • Create/revise job descriptions, conduct talent development discussion sessions, rate performance, and establish/track goals.
    • Coach, motivate, mentor, and develop direct reports to successfully take on additional responsibilities.
    • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5 years of engineering experience in a product development environment, including model-based design of embedded control systems utilizing Mathworks tools (Matlab, Simulink, Stateflow, etc.).
  • Project management and supervisory skills.
  • Good written, verbal, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to travel with overnight stays (0-5%).
  • Reliable transportation to travel locally between company locations during scheduled workdays.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Working knowledge of the product series in lift truck design, industrial design, and ergonomics.
  • Hands-on mechanical, electrical, and automotive/vehicle experience.
  • Experience in driver assistance, vehicle dynamics, or vehicle product/systems engineering.
  • Familiar with GitHub, C, C++, CANbus, CANape, CANalyzer, Confluence, Embedded C, FREE RTOS, Git, Jira, and Python.
  • Experience utilizing agile project management methodologies for embedded software development.

Work Authorization

Indefinite U.S. work authorized individuals only. Individuals with temporary visas are ineligible. Sponsorship for work authorization, now or in the future, is unavailable.

Compensation and Benefits

Crown offers an excellent wage and benefits package for full-time employees, including Health/Dental/Vision/Prescription Drug Plan, Flexible Benefits Plan, 401K Retirement Savings Plan, Life and Disability Benefits, Paid Holidays, Paid Vacation, Tuition Reimbursement, and much more.

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