Aerospace and Defense, Automotive Industry, Business Administration, Coaching, Continuous Improvement, Cost Engineering, Cross-Functional, Engineering, Engineering Management, Establish Priorities, Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology & Information Systems, Intellectual Property (IP), Maintain Compliance, Manufacturing, Market Segmentation, Medical Treatment, Optics, Performance Metrics, Polymers, Product Design, Product Development, Product Documentation, Product Engineering, Product Management, Product Planning, Product Support, Product/Service Launch, Project Control, Project/Program Management, Regulations, Research & Development (R&D), Risk, Risk Management, Succession Planning, Supply Chain, Systems Engineering, Talent Management, Team Player, Technical Support, Technical/Engineering Design
Product Development Engineering Manager
Group: Eng Materials Group N. America
Division: Engineered Polymer Seals (EPS)
Location: USA SALT LAKE CITY UT PACKING
Job Family : Engineering
Job Type : Regular
Posted : Jul 14, 2026
Job ID: 67086
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Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we've enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.
Our Purpose - Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow - comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.
The Engineered Polymer Systems Product Development team specializes in the design of Polyurethane, PTFE, and Elastomeric sealing solutions for linear dynamic and rotary dynamic applications across multiple market segments including Automotive, Energy, Industrial, and Aerospace and Defense. This position is for a strategic manager, who will be responsible to lead, manage, and provide technical direction to the linear sealing product development engineering team. This role will interface heavily with the broader cross functional team in support of progressing team and program objectives. They will have responsibility for working with business counterparts to define and execute on future research and development needs to support product development and strategic growth goals.
Summary:
Leads the Parker Engineered Polymer Systems Product Design Engineering team; owns the definition, execution, and continuous improvement of the Stage-Gate product development process, talent development, and the product technology roadmap. Partners with Commercial and Operations teams for opportunity vetting, and empowers Market Segment HPTs to prioritize and execute new opportunities based on available HPT resources.
Essential Functions:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Design Engineers through regular 1:1s, performance coaching, individual development plans, and succession planning.
- Foster a culture of accountability, safety, inclusion, and continuous improvement; recognize and address performance gaps; maintain a skills matrix and targeted training plan.
- Own the EPS Stage-Gate product development process, templates, and design controls; ensure consistent application across Market Segment HPTs.
- Empower and coach Market Segment HPTs to execute programs to technical, schedule, and cost targets; establish clear cadences and escalation paths.
- Manage the new product development and sustainment portfolio; align priorities to divisional strategy and the product technology roadmap.
- Track portfolio health (gate readiness, schedule adherence, technical and manufacturing risk, engineering spend vs. plan) and remove roadblocks.
- Partner with Commercial, BD, and Value Stream leaders to assess opportunities and drive quote/kill decisions.
- Hold teams accountable for gate criteria, deliverable quality, and risk mitigation; support supplier/partner engagement as needed.
- Ensure production readiness of new product with operations, drive completion of necessary project documentation, and launch product with product vitality index tracking.
- Define and maintain the EPS product technology roadmap; identify and close technology and capability gaps within design engineering.
- Define and report KPIs for team capability and engagement, time-to-market, launch quality, design to cost, and engineering productivity.
- Drive collaboration between EPS and customer engineering teams.
- Establish and maintain relationships with counterparts at key customers.
- Protect Parker intellectual property and ensure compliance with confidentiality, data governance, and export control requirements (e.g., ITAR/EAR as applicable).
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a science technical discipline; PE is a plus, MS or MBA preferred.
- 12-15 years of product development engineering experience, including prior management/supervisory responsibility for 4 or more years.
- Advanced knowledge of engineering theories, including either mechanical, electronic, packaging, and/or optics engineering theories, principles, concepts, techniques, project management and control, concurrent engineering, industry practices, regulations, and policies related to division products, services, markets, objectives and strategies.
- Ability to apply comprehensive knowledge of other related engineering areas from other experts to own area of expertise.
Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.
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Parker Hannifin Corp
Parker is the global leader in motion and control technologies, precisely engineering solutions for customers around the world.
Capabilities Parker’s engineering expertise spans the core motion technologies – electromechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic – will a full complement of fluid control systems; software and electronic controls; filtration systems; and instrumentation and sealing technologies.
The motion and control industry supports nearly all finished goods on the market today. We’re committed to helping our customers achieve higher levels of productivity. You can’t see the engineering in our products, but every day you experience the results of our work, on virtually everything that moves.
Global Strengths With operations in more than 46 countries around the world, Parker offers many career paths and opportunities for advancement. We offer a number of hands-on training programs that enables new hires to quickly get up to speed and begin contributing to Parker’s success immediately. In addition, employees are encouraged to actively participate in professional and industry- related organizations.
Company facts With annual sales exceeding $10 billion, Parker is the world’s leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision- engineered solutions for a wide variety of commercial , mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. Parker has increased its annual dividends paid to shareholders for 54 consecutive years, among the top five longest- running dividend-increase records in the S&P 500 index. For more information, visit the company’s website at
http://www.parker.com , or its investor information site at
http://www.phstock.com