About this role
The Chiller Engineering Design Manager is responsible for leading a multidisciplinary design organization supporting new product development, product enhancements, and sustaining engineering design activities across the portfolio of Chiller Products serving the EMEA market. The role ensures that mechanical and electrical design resources, systems, processes, and standards are effectively deployed to deliver high-quality engineering outputs aligned with business objectives, customer requirements, regulatory expectations, and manufacturing needs.
Working closely with local Product Engineering and Global Component Engineering teams, the Design Manager is responsible for translating product requirements into robust, manufacturable, and scalable design solutions while ensuring effective collaboration across engineering disciplines.
In addition to driving design execution and operational excellence, the Design Manager plays a key role in supporting the company's European growth strategy by developing local engineering capabilities, advancing standardization and continuous improvement, and strengthening the contribution of the European organization within a global engineering structure.
What You Will Do
Lead and develop a multidisciplinary Mechanical and Electrical Design organization responsible for delivering new product development, product enhancement, and sustaining engineering design activities for the EMEA Chiller portfolio.Deliver high-quality engineering design outputs that meet business objectives, product roadmaps, customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and manufacturing needs.Drive design excellence through effective resource planning, prioritization, talent development, and continuous improvement initiatives.Ensure adherence to engineering design standards, methodologies, and governance processes, driving quality, compliance, efficiency, and consistency across all engineering deliverables.Build strong partnerships with manufacturing teams in Nantes, France and Izmir, Turkey to support Design for Manufacturing, product industrialization, engineering change implementation, and overall operational excellence.Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement across the Design organization.Support the company's European growth strategy by developing local engineering capabilities, strengthening organizational capacity, and building a scalable design function.Promote alignment between local business priorities and global engineering strategies, standards, and best practices.Develop and maintain strong relationships with Engineering, Manufacturing, Product Management, Quality, Supply Chain, and other key stakeholders to ensure successful execution of business and product objectives.Strengthen the contribution, visibility, and influence of the European Design organization within the company's global engineering network. How You Will Do It
People Leadership
Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of Mechanical and Electrical Designers.Build an engaged and high-performing team that maximizes both individual and collective capabilities.Conduct performance reviews, goal setting, succession planning, and talent development activities.Support talent acquisition and workforce planning to ensure the organization can meet current and future business needs.Promote a culture of safety, inclusion, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Design & Engineering Operations
Direct the allocation and utilization of design resources to ensure projects meet agreed objectives, schedules, budgets, and quality standards.Lead design-related processes and governance to ensure standardization and efficient dissemination of engineering information.Ensure engineering drawings, models, bills of materials, and related deliverables accurately communicate engineering requirements and comply with applicable standards.Review and interpret compliance requirements, industry standards, and internal engineering procedures.Maintain effective communication with engineering teams, project teams, manufacturing organizations, and internal customers.Provide regular updates to engineering leadership regarding resource capacity, priorities, risks, and opportunities. Cross-Functional Engineering Leadership
Partner closely with Product Engineering teams responsible for product performance, component selection, ratings, certifications, and compliance.Ensure effective collaboration between Design and Product Engineering functions throughout the product lifecycle.Support the translation of product requirements into practical, efficient, and manufacturable design solutions.Drive alignment across Design, Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and Product Management organizations.Participate in strategic planning and product development initiatives supporting business growth. Design Systems, Engineering Data & Digital Engineering
Oversee the effective use of design tools, PLM systems, and engineering processes.Provide local leadership and prioritization for PLM and Architecture resources, ensuring alignment between engineering needs, business priorities, and global functional strategies.Ensure teams are equipped with current tools, technologies, and capabilities necessary to support business objectives.Support best practices in product data management, configuration management, engineering change management, and product lifecycle processes. Manufacturing Collaboration
Serve as a key engineering interface with manufacturing facilities in Nantes, France and Izmir, Turkey.Collaborate with manufacturing teams to improve manufacturability, assembly efficiency, quality, cost, serviceability, and operational performance.Support production issue resolution and implementation of engineering changes.Ensure released engineering documentation effectively supports manufacturing operations and business needs. Resource Management
Contribute to annual operating and investment planning to ensure appropriate resources, tools, and capabilities are available to support business objectives.Monitor resource utilization, capacity, and project demands to ensure effective support of engineering priorities.Ensure efficient use of financial and human resources while maintaining operational excellence.Recommend investments in tools, processes, and capabilities that improve organizational performance. Quality & Continuous Improvement