Engineering Manager, Advanced Products
Ralliant · Plainville, CT
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 7+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management manufacturing role at Ralliant (industrial) in Plainville, CT.
- They ask for
- 7+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ), SolidWorks
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 9, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in Connecticut: typical posted base $86k–$137k.
Median of the low and high ends of 14 live postings that list pay, out of 32 manufacturing engineer openings in Connecticut, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 31 other live manufacturing postings in Connecticut.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (7+ vs 5+)
Typical $86k–$137k, from 14 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Tooling 50%
- Lean 50%
- Root cause 47%
- ✓ Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 34%
- Six Sigma 34%
- Cost reduction 28%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: Ralliant in Plainville
2 other open roles at this site.
- Engineering Manager (Product Development & Realization) · Manufacturing · Manager
- Operations Manager · Production · Manager
Full description from RalliantAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Essential Functions
- ◆Lead advanced product development from opportunity through concept design freeze, translating customer needs into technically sound, well-defined product concepts ready for Product Realization.
- ◆Build and lead a high-performing multidisciplinary engineering team, developing Senior and Principal engineers into stronger technical owners and independent problem solvers.
- ◆Guide sensing, electronic, and electromechanical product development, bringing strong electrical engineering judgment while leveraging specialized expertise across the team.
- ◆Drive technical discovery and risk reduction through
requirements
development, architecture, analysis, experimentation, prototyping, and early validation.
- ✓Shape technology roadmaps and product architectures by identifying capability gaps, reusable technologies, platform opportunities, and paths to develop or acquire needed capability.
- ✓Partner with Product Management to connect customer and market opportunities with technical possibilities, feasibility, and readiness.
- ✓Lead through technical judgment rather than individual heroics, challenging assumptions, facilitating tradeoffs, and raising engineering rigor while maintaining ownership within the team.
- ✓Ensure strong transition to Product Realization through clear requirements, technical direction, understood risks, and mature product definitions.
- ✓Extend technical capability through external awareness and partnerships, selectively engaging customers, suppliers, universities, and emerging technologies.
Education & Experience Required
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related engineering discipline, with 7+ years of progressive experience developing electronic, electromechanical, sensing, instrumentation, or similarly complex products. Master's degree preferred.
- ✓Demonstrated progression from strong individual contributor into technical or team leadership, such as Lead, Senior, Principal, Chief, Project, or supervisory responsibilities. Prior formal people-management experience is not required.
- ✓Strong electrical engineering foundation with sufficient multidisciplinary breadth to lead experienced electrical and mechanical engineers and engage credibly in system-level technical decisions.
- ✓Demonstrated experience developing products from early
requirements
and concept development through design, validation, and execution.
- ✓Experience translating customer or market needs into requirements, evaluating technical alternatives, and maturing early ideas into credible product concepts.
- ✓Demonstrated ability to reduce technical uncertainty through analysis, experimentation, prototyping, testing, and structured engineering problem solving.
- ✓Experience developing others through technical leadership, mentoring, coaching, design reviews, or team leadership while enabling engineers to maintain ownership of their work.
- ✓Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with experience working across Product Management and other functions involved in bringing engineered products to market.
Additional experience considered a plus
- ✓Experience with sensor, instrumentation, embedded electronics, measurement, or controls technologies.
- ✓Exposure to technology roadmapping, product architecture, platform development, or external technology partnerships.
- ✓Familiarity with electrical and mechanical engineering design environments; Altium and SolidWorks experience preferred.
Ralliant Corporation Overview
Ralliant, originally part of Fortive, now stands as a bold, independent public company driving innovation at the forefront of precision technology. With a global footprint and a legacy of excellence, we empower engineers to bring next-generation breakthroughs to life — faster, smarter, and more reliably. Our high-performance instruments, sensors, and subsystems fuel mission-critical advancements across industries, enabling real-world impact where it matters most. At Ralliant we’re building the future, together with those driven to push boundaries, solve complex problems, and leave a lasting mark on the world.
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The Engineering Manager, Advanced Products leads a multidisciplinary team of experienced electrical and mechanical engineers focused on translating customer and market opportunities into product concepts and enabling technologies. This role is well suited for an accomplished electrical engineering leader ready to expand their impact from individual technical contribution to full-time team leadership. The manager guides requirements, technology evaluation, concept development, and technical risk reduction while developing a team capable of solving increasingly complex problems with greater rigor and independence.
Critical Success Factors
- •Creates stronger product concepts through clearer requirements, better technical definition, disciplined learning, and earlier risk identification that improve downstream execution.
- •Builds deeper technical capability throughout the team, developing strong technical owners while reducing dependency on individual experts.
