
Director of Product Engineering
GF (Georg Fischer) · Irwindale, CA
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level manufacturing role at GF (Georg Fischer) (industrial) in Irwindale, CA. In this a fully onsite position, the Director of Product Engineering is responsible for leading the research and development of industrial process automation products (sensors, electronics, controls, embedded software, mechanics, etc.) for Georg Fischer.
- They ask for
- 5+ years
- Tools it names
- Automation
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in California: typical posted base $111k–$173k.
Median of the low and high ends of 165 live postings that list pay, out of 436 manufacturing engineer openings in California, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 435 other live manufacturing postings in California.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $109k–$159k, from 144 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Tooling 50%
- ✓ New product launch 44%
- Root cause 37%
- ✓ Automation 35%
- Machining 27%
- CATIA / NX 26%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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Responsibilities
- ◆Cultivate a collaborative, high performing engineering environment, strengthening alignment and cooperation across global teams while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
- ◆Drive strategic problem solving and technical innovation, identifying emerging technologies, evaluating market potential, and advising leadership on developments impacting cost, schedule, profitability, customer satisfaction, and cross functional operations.
- ◆Lead intellectual property (IP) development and technology roadmap planning, analyzing industry trends, resource requirements, and market needs to guide project prioritization and long-term engineering strategy.
- ◆Manage and develop external engineering partners and technical suppliers, ensuring strong execution, effective collaboration, and high-quality delivery across all outsourced development activities.
- ◆Establish and refine engineering processes, metrics, and standards, providing clear direction on policy application, ensuring compliance with safety and product design requirements, and driving improvements in time, cost, quality, and operational excellence.
- ◆Complete Role Standard Work and deliver all other duties as assigned.
Required Skills/Abilities
- ✓Proven leadership of product strategy, roadmap execution, and full product lifecycle management.
- ✓Strong ability to align product portfolios with business strategy, market needs, and financial objectives.
- ✓Demonstrated success leading, developing, and scaling product management teams.
- ✓Deep understanding of voice ‑ of ‑ customer, market analysis, and competitive positioning.
- ✓Strong cross ‑ functional leadership across sales, engineering, operations, and supply chain.
- ✓Financial acumen including pricing, margin management, and business case development.
- ✓Executive ‑ level communication, prioritization, and decision ‑ making skills in dynamic environments.
Education and Experience
- ✓MS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Physics with 5 years of directly relevant experience or BS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Physics or related field with 10 years of direct relevant experience.
- ✓Strong know-how of physical and chemical effects to measure conductivity, pH, flow and other relevant process parameters
- ✓Experience in managing software, electrical, mechanical and test/verification engineering teams that have created process- or factory automation products, ideally analytical sensors, controllers and transmitters.
- ✓Experience with embedded systems for industrial environments
- ✓Strong verbal and written communication skills. Expertise in presenting complex, technical projects to groups. Leadership proficiency that will relate to both individual team members as well as the team as a whole .
- ✓Experience with product development processes from product
requirements
to launch and sustaining, including product requirements, architecture, hardware and software development, verification, production and launch.
- ✓5+ years individual contributor experience as an engineer or researcher, 5+ years of project team leadership or manager experience, 5+ years managing R&D or engineering teams, ideally in a global environment.
- ✓Experience DFM (design for manufacturing), DFM (design for test) and industrialization of products
Working Conditions / Physical
Requirements
- ✓While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
- ✓The employee is frequently required to sit.
- ✓The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk
- ✓The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- ✓Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
- ✓While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock.
- ✓The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
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In this a fully onsite position, the Director of Product Engineering is responsible for leading the research and development of industrial process automation products (sensors, electronics, controls, embedded software, mechanics, etc.) for Georg Fischer Measurement & Control located in Irwindale, CA. The Director of Product Engineering shall use innovative techniques, tools and technologies, to reduce development time while increasing the reliability of products .
