Hybrid Design Engineering Manager

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About the role

  • Design Engineering Manager overseeing engineering workflows, CAD/PDM governance at Ralliant Corporation. Leading design engineering resources across global projects with a focus on efficiency and quality.

Responsibilities

  • Own intake, triage, prioritization, and flow of engineering workflows including ECR/ECO, VAVE, customs configurations, engineering services support request and related sustaining workstreams 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.
  • Own SolidWorks standards, templates, libraries, and best practices
  • Provide design engineering oversight and technical gatekeeping.
  • Review and approve drawings and design outputs as required by process.
  • Serve as owner and administrator for multiple global sites using SolidWorks 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Associate or Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline
  • 10+ years of experience in design engineering, sustaining engineering, project engineering and/or execution of engineering change management work streams
  • Expert knowledge of SolidWorks CAD as user, mechanical designer and Administrator
  • Expert knowledge of SolidWorks enterprise PDM as Implementor and Administrator
  • Strong knowledge of mechanical product design
  • Strong knowledge in ERP databases – JD Edward (JDE) is a plus
  • Strong knowledge with integration of multiple database platforms for master data control and engineering change management processes
  • Demonstrated ability to lead people, define processes, and operate effectively in a multisite, cross‑functional environment

Benefits

  • We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer
  • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities

Job title

Design Engineering Manager

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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