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Director, Hardware Engineering
Livonia, MIPosted 1 months ago
Full-timeonsitedirector
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
• Lead the integrated Engineering functions, ensuring alignment between market requirements, product strategy, and engineering execution across all equipment platforms.
• Execute the long-term product roadmap that balances innovation, cost competitiveness, and operational efficiency while advancing modular design, common component strategies, and standardization across the portfolio.
• Drive portfolio governance and lifecycle management, including new product introductions, value engineering, cost reduction, and end-of-life strategies to optimize financial performance and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Commercial, Software, Operations, Supply Chain, and Service leaders to translate customer insights and business objectives into product and engineering priorities that deliver measurable business impact.
• Champion product quality, reliability, and manufacturability, ensuring engineering solutions meet performance standards, regulatory requirements, and Dover operational excellence principles.
• Build and develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement; attract, retain, and develop talent within both product management and engineering disciplines.
• Lead and oversee development and investment into our product management capability and capacity in terms of people, processes, and tools aligned to the Company's objectives.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to the VWS leadership team, contributing to overall business direction, investment prioritization, and technology strategy, with an emphasis on integrated wash system solutions that combine equipment, chemistry, and connected controls.
• Represent the voice of the customer and market in product and technology decisions, leveraging market research, VOC insights, and competitive intelligence to guide development priorities and ensure commercial differentiation.
• Lead the integrated Engineering functions, ensuring alignment between market requirements, product strategy, and engineering execution across all equipment platforms.
• Execute the long-term product roadmap that balances innovation, cost competitiveness, and operational efficiency while advancing modular design, common component strategies, and standardization across the portfolio.
• Drive portfolio governance and lifecycle management, including new product introductions, value engineering, cost reduction, and end-of-life strategies to optimize financial performance and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Commercial, Software, Operations, Supply Chain, and Service leaders to translate customer insights and business objectives into product and engineering priorities that deliver measurable business impact.
• Champion product quality, reliability, and manufacturability, ensuring engineering solutions meet performance standards, regulatory requirements, and Dover operational excellence principles.
• Build and develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement; attract, retain, and develop talent within both product management and engineering disciplines.
• Lead and oversee development and investment into our product management capability and capacity in terms of people, processes, and tools aligned to the Company's objectives.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to the VWS leadership team, contributing to overall business direction, investment prioritization, and technology strategy, with an emphasis on integrated wash system solutions that combine equipment, chemistry, and connected controls.
• Represent the voice of the customer and market in product and technology decisions, leveraging market research, VOC insights, and competitive intelligence to guide development priorities and ensure commercial differentiation.