Product Development Manager, Strapping Systems

Role overview

Product strategy and requirements

• Establish and own Product Requirements Documents with PSG Product Management; translate customer, market, and business needs into actionable requirements.
• Maintain traceability from requirements through design, validation, and release.
• Own product roadmaps, standardization strategies, product datasheets, platform scalability initiatives, and competitive and market intelligence.

Development and engineering leadership

• Lead NPD/NPI activities and milestone governance; complete technical reviews, risk assessments, validation plans, and release criteria.
• Drive product launches and transition products into production.
• Own design quality, system integrity, technical scalability, R&D design, and project-based product development.
• Drive engineering methods, design standardization, best practices, design collaboration, and Configure-to-Order platform objectives.

Team and technical practices

• Lead and coach mechanical, electrical, and controls/software designers; establish objectives and conduct performance reviews.
• Support mentoring, training, career development, recruiting, hiring, onboarding, workforce planning, and engineering resource prioritization.
• Promote collaboration, ideation, innovation, employee engagement, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Establish requirements tools, knowledge management, and engineering center-of-excellence practices; support escalation resolution.

Standards and improvement

• Serve as in-house expert for applicable regulatory, safety, and industry certification requirements and integrate compliance into product decisions.
• Drive product catalogue standardization and design-driven cost reduction; measure and improve engineering efficiency, product quality, and team engagement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years in automation, machinery design, product development, or systems engineering.
• Strong product requirements and NPI experience; demonstrated technical team leadership, coaching, product design, and standardization experience.
• Solid understanding of industrial automation systems and engineered machinery; strapping equipment and packaging automation knowledge is preferred.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Travel and work context

• Occasional travel to customer and internal sites in Canada, the USA, and globally.
• Work effectively across engineering, manufacturing, and commercial environments in a dynamic and evolving product portfolio.

Compensation

• Base salary range is CAD $122,800–$153,500 per year.
• Eligible for a short-term incentive plan; awards, if any, depend on business and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

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