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Design Engineering Manager
A Hiring Company 🇺🇸 Goleta, California, United States of America
Lead and develop an engineering team responsible for rescue and rope-access products, guiding multiple programs from opportunity definition and concept selection through design, testing, production transfer, and commercial launch. Partner with customers and cross-functional teams to ensure products meet safety, quality, regulatory, cost, manufacturing, and schedule requirements.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, lead, and mentor a team of engineers developing rescue PPE and hardware
- Translate market opportunities and customer needs into product requirements and technology roadmaps
- Lead multiple development programs from concept to commercial launch, managing milestones, budgets, and risks
- Guide concept generation, design reviews, and approval of requirements, analyses, 3D models, drawings, prototypes, and test results
- Collaborate with product management, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, supply chain, and commercial teams
- Participate in customer research, field observation, and competitive assessment
- Define production processes, tooling, supplier requirements, and launch‑readiness criteria
- Embed quality, safety, regulatory, and risk‑management requirements throughout development
- Maintain disciplined design documentation, change control, and support product certification
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field; Master's preferred
- 7‑11+ years of progressive mechanical engineering and product development experience
- 2‑3 years of formal people leadership or engineering management experience
- Experience leading cross‑functional development of complex physical products in a stage‑gate process
- Background with safety‑critical, PPE, or regulated products preferred
- Advanced proficiency with 3D CAD and product data management tools
- Strong knowledge of GD&T, design for manufacture, prototyping, risk management, verification, validation, and design transfer
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
Key Skills
About A Hiring Company
CMC, founded in 1978, designs and manufactures professional rescue equipment used globally, serving rescue and rope‑access markets.
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