Job Description
Product Manager – Advanced Cooling Technologies
Location: Elmhurst
Compensation: Up to $130K base + 10% bonus
Compensation: Up to $130K base + 10% bonus
If you’re looking for a role where you can make a visible impact, work closely with customers, and help shape highly engineered products used in cutting-edge industries, this opportunity is worth exploring.
This growing, family-owned manufacturer designs custom process cooling systems that support some of the world’s most advanced technologies — including medical devices, MRI systems, electron optics, x-ray applications, and other high-tech equipment. The company offers a collaborative, hands-on environment where employees are valued as long-term contributors rather than just another number.
Their culture is refreshingly down-to-earth, team-oriented, and non-corporate. Leadership is accessible, ideas are welcomed, and people genuinely enjoy working together. If you’re tired of bureaucracy and want the ability to influence products, customers, and processes directly, this could be a strong fit.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Work directly with customers to define new product applications, specifications, timelines, and cost targets
- Modify and configure products to meet customer requirements
- Generate pricing quotations and technical submittals
- Manage and monitor KPIs for assigned product lines
- Develop customer-specific service programs
- Troubleshoot and support chillers in the field
- Collaborate closely with Engineering and Manufacturing to ensure customer expectations are met
- Communicate technical, service, and pricing updates to OEM customers
What They’re Looking For
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Excellent communication and customer interaction abilities
- Ability to solve technical problems in a hands-on environment
- Positive attitude and willingness to support the team
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, and customers
Preferred Experience
- Refrigeration or HVAC systems knowledge
- Product Management or Application Engineering experience
- Experience supporting technical products in a manufacturing environment
Why People Like Working Here
- Family-owned company with a stable, long-term mindset
- Friendly, open culture without heavy corporate politics
- High visibility and ability to make an impact
- Opportunity to grow into future leadership roles
- Collaborative engineering-driven environment
- Strong work-life balance and leadership accessibility
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys combining technical knowledge, customer interaction, and product ownership in an innovative manufacturing environment.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Elmhurst, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Develop and Maintain Customersunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- HVACunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)unmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Medical Equipmentunmatched
- OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer)unmatched
- Opticsunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Politicsunmatched
- Pricingunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Product Managementunmatched
- Product Supportunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Radiographyunmatched
- Refrigerationunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
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