Design Engineer Manager
Lead a team of mechanical engineers to develop valves, pumps, and industrial systems from concept to launch, balancing performance, cost, and manufacturability while improving engineering processes.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Category
- Engineering design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Experience building team capability, improving engineering processes, and establishing clear priorities, routines, and accountability within a technical organization.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (ABET-accredited preferred) or a related engineering discipline.
- 10+ years of engineering experience with demonstrated success developing mechanical products within a manufacturing environment.
- Experience leading engineering projects, mentoring engineers, or supervising technical teams.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional engineering projects through structured development, validation, launch, and post-launch improvement.
- Strong understanding of mechanical design principles, manufacturing processes, product validation, engineering risk management, and engineering best practices.
- Experience with structured product development methodologies, DFMEA, DFM/DFA, and product lifecycle management.
Full description
Design Engineering Manager
Ready to change the future, your way?
This is an excellent opportunity for a driven Design Engineering Manager to unlock your ambition and work the future at Aalberts.
As the Design Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for new product development, major product enhancements, and strategic engineering initiatives across multiple product lines. This is a working manager role that combines people leadership, project leadership, and technical oversight.
You will provide technical direction throughout the product development lifecycle by guiding engineering decisions, facilitating design reviews, managing project execution, and supporting your team through each stage of development. While your primary responsibility is leading the Design Engineering team, you will remain actively engaged in projects, serve as a technical resource for complex engineering challenges, and help strengthen the processes, tools, and capabilities needed to accelerate new product development.
the Aalberts way
Aalberts is built on entrepreneurship. We believe the more space people are given, the greater their chance of finding brilliant solutions for our customers. That is why we encourage everyone to take ownership, think independently yet work as one team. You are in charge today of what happens tomorrow. For yourself, for the company, and for our planet.
your challenge
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of design engineers while fostering a collaborative, accountable, and solutions-oriented engineering culture.
- Lead new product development and major enhancement projects from concept through commercialization, ensuring alignment with business objectives, customer needs, schedules, financial goals, and launch readiness.
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, engineering problem solving, product validation, risk assessment, and key design decisions throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Lead engineering execution within the NPD stage-gate process, ensuring projects are properly scoped, designed, validated, industrialized, launched, and reviewed against business and customer objectives.
- Partner with Product Management to translate product strategy, Voice of Customer insights, and market opportunities into practical engineering requirements and scalable product designs.
- Work cross-functionally to ensure successful product launches, production readiness, and long-term product performance.
- Champion engineering best practices including DFMEA, DFM/DFA, validation planning, design standardization, engineering risk management, and structured product development methodologies.