Product Development Manager

About This Role

Leading the Product Development team, this role focuses on designing innovative new products based on market trends and specific customer requirements. The manager will ensure new and existing products are designed, validated, documented, and released in line with customer requirements, business priorities, safety expectations, quality standards, and manufacturing capability. This position suits a candidate with excellent design judgment and the ability to turn product requirements into practical, manufacturable, and validated solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Product Development team and be responsible for end-to-end product design delivery, design control, workload planning, technical decision-making, resource prioritisation, and performance of the team
• Ensure robust mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and application-led solutions are delivered effectively
• Translate product requirements into practical design solutions
• Oversee CAD models, drawings, BOMs, test plans, validation activity, technical documentation, design reviews, and product release outputs
• Support type approval
• Liaise with test facilities and notified bodies where required
• Ensure product knowledge is embedded across production, product support, and commercial teams

Requirements

• STEM related Degree is preferred
• Solid experience gained in product development, design engineering, application engineering, or a related technical leadership role
• Strong product design capability across mechanical, electrical, automotive, industrial, transportation, aerospace, agricultural or earthmoving applications
• Experience managing technical teams, planning workloads, prioritising resources, tracking actions, and controlling delivery
• Competent in CAD, preferably Solid Works, plus BOMs, drawings, specifications, test plans, reports, and Microsoft Office tools
• Strong leadership, coaching, organisation, workload planning, prioritisation, follow-up, and delivery control
• Clear communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, technical reporting, and design review capability

Benefits

• Great benefits

Important Details

• Schedule: Monday – Friday 8:30am – 4:30pm
• Contract: full-time, permanent
• Locations: Hilsea; North Yorkshire office with flexibility to attend customer sites and testing facilities

About the Company

Our client is an established and highly respected manufacturing business based in North Yorkshire. Due to continued growth, they are currently recruiting a Product Development Manager.