Product Manager III

Galvion - Portsmouth, NH

Full-time

Portsmouth, NH

Apparel Manufacturing

About the position

The Product Engineer III at Galvion serves as a crucial link between various departments including Industrial Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Quality. This role is responsible for managing the development of new Power and Data Systems (P&DS) products and enhancing existing ones, ensuring compliance with specifications and integration into current systems. The position also involves leading project teams to deliver high-quality products for military markets and making strategic recommendations to business leadership regarding potential partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Act as first-line technical resource for internal customer inquiries related to Galvion products for the P&DS Business Unit.
• Influence and own product roadmap implementation for at least one product line, developing priorities for improvements in conjunction with Product Management.
• Develop and maintain product configuration.
• Participate in the implementation of tools and processes to maintain product configuration integrity.
• Update and release technical data packages.
• Interface with Marketing for sales collateral development and Customer Support for field support processes implementation.
• Recommend concepts to meet functional, military/commercial applications, and customer needs.
• Update and maintain the Product Life Cycle (PLC) process for new product design, development, and management.
• Formulate detailed plans, develop timelines and cost estimates for development tasks, and inform management of performance against plan.
• Evaluate, document, and implement design and process changes to improve product performance, manufacturability, safety, or cost.
• Assess reliability, safety, performance, and technical risk.
• Coordinate and communicate development schedules or design issues throughout the technical team.
• Create product specifications in alignment with customer requirements.
• Lead the technical team to ensure all technical and customer documentation meet requirements.
• Work with the technical team, Supply Chain, and other stakeholders to ensure progress against plan.
• Create the Bill of Materials and manage it through product development, including cost analysis interaction with Finance and transfer to manufacturing.
• Create and review test and validation plans for new products to validate conformance to specifications.
• Ensure proper Design-For-'X' (Dfx) analysis and guidance is provided to the development team.
• Identify and ensure that Intellectual Property is captured.
• Serve as the point of contact for internal/external customers on all technical matters on projects.
• Communicate technical points between the project team and the customer.
• Determine and follow up on engineering actions between progress review meetings.
• Lead the implementation of Design-To-Cost (DTC) and support supplier choice and overall commercial strategy for projects.
• Support Design-For-Manufacturability (DFM).
• Lead technical representative for all Requests for Proposals, Quotes, and Whitepapers.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience, preferably in Electrical or Systems Engineering.
• 5+ years' experience in a product development environment or related engineering role.
• Experience in product development cycle in defense, tactical communications, design-to-cost methodology, or military standards.
• Strong interpersonal relationship and leadership skills with the ability to drive outcomes and accountability.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and specifications/technical requirements.
• Knowledge of QMS, ISO, industry standards, military standards, and associated procedures.
• Demonstrated knowledge of project management principles.
• Ability to work independently on assigned scope.
• Highly motivated problem solver with meticulous attention to detail.
• Experience with industry standard CAD, CAM, and PLM software.
• Strong verbal communication and writing skills.