Global Product Engineering Director
CHEP
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Orlando • Florida • United States
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About the role
- Drive the engineering lifecycle for new and existing physical products, ensuring robust design, testing, validation, and technical delivery.
- Translate strategic product innovation priorities into clear engineering roadmaps, plans, and workstreams aligned with organisational outcomes.
- Lead global engineering teams across product categories, providing coaching, direction, and support to deliver consistently high‑quality outputs.
- Oversee global testing and experimentation activities, ensuring appropriate test design, accurate data collection, and rigorous technical analysis.
- Manage escalations related to technical decisions, resource constraints, and operational challenges, ensuring continuity and delivery of engineering programmes.
- Partner with commercial, marketing, operations, and strategy teams to deliver customer‑focused solutions and support collaborative innovation projects.
- Manage engineering budgets, optimising utilisation of internal resources and external partners, including suppliers, consultancies, and test facilities.
- Strengthen engineering governance by defining success metrics, ensuring high‑quality reporting, and promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing across teams and regions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering preferred, Master’s in Engineering beneficial.
- ~7+ years’ mechanical engineering design and analysis experience in a high‑performance product development environment with strong exposure to product testing and performance analysis ; 3+ years managing technical staff.
- Demonstrated strength in data analysis , experimental design, technical documentation, and stakeholder communication.
- Hands‑on experience with mechanical equipment , especially laboratory and materials testing equipment.
- Strong 3D CAD background (Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks) with CAE tools to optimize designs.
- Broad project management experience, interfacing with diverse stakeholders; proven ability to manage staff and a large project portfolio with composure and professionalism.
- Broad product design experience across materials and applications, with emphasis on plastics/composites components and assemblies; ability to evaluate material suitability based on mechanical properties.
- Statistics‑driven data analysis (e.g., Minitab, SAS, Statistica) in the context of experimentation, tolerances, and performance metrics.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
mechanical engineering designdata analysisexperimental designtechnical documentation3D CADCAE toolsproduct testingperformance analysisproject managementmaterial evaluation
Soft skills
coachingdirectionstakeholder communicationcollaborationknowledge sharingprofessionalismcomposureleadershipsupportoptimisation
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical EngineeringMaster’s in Engineering