Engineering Manager (Product Development & Realization)

Ralliant•Plainville, CT

2d•$114,730 - $213,070

About The Position

The Product Development & Realization Engineering Manager leads a multidisciplinary team of mechanical and electrical engineers responsible for product development from design through validation, release, and sustaining support. The role is accountable for delivering high-quality, manufacturable products with strong technical rigor, process discipline, and consistent execution. It provides people leadership and technical authority, guides design decisions, ensures alignment with requirements, and drives execution across NPI, VAVE, engineering change, and customer-driven product configurations. In partnership with cross-functional teams and Engineering Systems, the manager ensures engineering outputs are complete, validated, and ready for production, bridging product development and operational readiness. The manager leads execution from concept design freeze through validation, release, and early lifecycle support; establishes standards for design quality and completeness; and integrates design, validation, manufacturability, and cross-functional readiness into release decisions. The role builds accountability through clear outcomes and performance metrics, reinforces disciplined engineering workflows, and leads structured problem solving and root-cause analysis to achieve sustainable resolutions. Ralliant is an independent public precision technology company with a global footprint. Gems Setra, part of Ralliant's Precision Technologies platform, supplies sensing and monitoring technologies, including products for liquid level, flow, pressure, humidity, current, vacuum, and energy measurement. The company describes its mission as delivering high-quality sensing solutions and creating a safer, healthier, more sustainable world.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
At least 8 years of engineering experience in a manufacturing or product-based environment, including leadership of product development, validation, release, and sustaining engineering activities.
Ability to serve as a technical authority in a multidisciplinary engineering environment, set expectations for rigor, review work for completeness and sound judgment, and coach engineers across mechanical, electrical, or electromechanical product development.
Proven ability to use data, performance metrics, and operating rhythms to set expectations, track execution, identify gaps, and improve delivery outcomes.
Ability to balance execution speed with sound engineering judgment, including knowing when to accelerate, escalate risk, or hold for greater technical or production readiness.
Strong root-cause problem-solving capability and experience driving issues to sustainable resolution.
Experience reinforcing disciplined use of engineering processes and workflows.
Working knowledge of core engineering design tools, including the ability to navigate and review mechanical and electrical design outputs and understand interactions between MCAD and ECAD systems.

Nice To Haves

An advanced degree.
Experience building dashboards or similar metric-based management tools.
Experience with structured problem-solving methodologies such as FMEA, 8D, or A3.
Experience partnering closely with engineering systems or workflow ownership roles.
Familiarity with SolidWorks and Altium.

Responsibilities

Lead product execution from concept design freeze through validation, release, and early lifecycle support, ensuring designs are fully defined, manufacturable, and successfully transitioned into production.
Set and reinforce standards for design quality, technical rigor, and completeness across multidisciplinary mechanical and electrical engineering teams.
Participate in design reviews, project planning, DFMEA, and validation, and coach engineers to improve technical judgment and work quality.
Coordinate with Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Product Management to integrate design, validation, manufacturability, and cross-functional readiness into release decisions.
Define measurable outcomes and performance metrics, and build accountability through ownership, feedback, recognition, and high expectations.
Co-own execution discipline for NPI, VAVE, engineering change, and product realization processes with the Engineering Systems role.
Lead the team to deliver results with focus and urgency, pivoting, reprioritizing, or adjusting direction when needed.
Drive structured problem solving and root-cause analysis to ensure issues are understood and resolved with sustainable fixes.
Improve engineering effectiveness through clear documentation, knowledge capture, and disciplined technical communication.