Product Development Manager, Strapping Systems

Role overview

Product strategy and requirements

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

Development and engineering leadership

• Lead NPD and NPI activities, milestone governance, product launches, and transition into production.
• Ensure technical reviews, risk assessments, validation plans, and release criteria are completed.
• Own design quality, system integrity, technical scalability, R&D product design, and project-based product development.
• Drive design standardization, engineering methods, technical best practices, and collaboration with internal units and external design partners.
• Provide senior technical guidance, resolve escalations, and promote Configure-to-Order platform objectives.

Strategic technical expectations

• Establish product and technical requirements tools and methods, knowledge management, and engineering center-of-excellence practices.
• Drive catalogue standardization and design-driven cost reduction; measure and improve engineering efficiency, product quality, and team engagement.

People leadership

• Lead and coach mechanical, electrical, and controls/software designers; set performance objectives and conduct reviews.
• Promote collaboration, inclusion, ideation, innovation, and practical, cost-effective machine design.
• Help the team translate evolving requirements into robust technical specifications; support mentoring, training, and career development.
• Participate in recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and workforce planning; manage team capacity and prioritize resources.
• Drive engagement, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Standards and compliance

• Serve as the in-house expert for applicable regulatory, safety, and industry certification requirements.
• Integrate compliance requirements into product and design decisions.

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; experience leading and coaching technical teams and product design and standardization initiatives.
• Solid understanding of industrial automation systems and engineered machinery.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of strapping equipment and packaging automation is preferred.

Travel and work context

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

Compensation

• Base salary range is CAD 122,800–153,500 per year.
• Eligible to participate in a short-term incentive plan; awards depend on business and individual performance and are not guaranteed.
• Actual base pay considers location, skills, education, experience, and internal equity; offers are typically within the range and not at its top.

Hiring process note

• The employer states that AI is not used to screen candidate resumes.