{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"cbcd7de377b29ea59244c2bb","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/cbcd7de377b29ea59244c2bb","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/cbcd7de377b29ea59244c2bb","title":"Supervisor Mechanical Engineering","description":"The MV Product Development Manager is a high-impact Engineering Site Leader responsible for driving product definition, engineering alignment, and execution excellence across Vertiv’s Medium-Voltage switchgear portfolio. Reporting to the Senior R&D Engineering Manager, this role leads Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers and Test teams to ensure clear product specifications, strong technical direction, and seamless collaboration with design teams.\n\nThis position is accountable for translating customer needs and field insights into robust product requirements, enabling design teams to build reliable, high-quality solutions. The Product Development Manager plays a critical role in delivering fully certified solutions to the market.\n\nThe role sets the standard for execution by prioritizing initiatives, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and maintaining strong oversight of validation, testing, and release readiness. Additionally, this leader drives New Product Development (NPDI) effectiveness, accelerates time-to-market through better planning and coordination, and ensures engineering resources are focused on the highest-impact work.\n\nSuccess in this role requires strong technical depth in Electrical/mechanical systems and design, decisive leadership, and the ability to influence product designs—bridging product definition and design execution to consistently deliver measurable business outcomes and improved customer experience. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of electrical engineering principles, extensive systems engineering background, an understanding of Product Engineering and New Product Development process, and experience in developing and managing a high-performing team.\n\nThis position requires full-time onsite presence at the Anderson, SC location.\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\nProvides technical leadership defining new product design specifications, resolving complex customer technical issues pertaining to Medium-Voltage Switchgear.\nProvides technical leadership to internal Vertiv functions - marketing, sales, application engineering, customer technical support and service, and manufacturing.\nLead, mentor, and coach a team of Product engineers, Lead Engineers, Sustaining team and test technicians.\nBrings extensive experience in electrical/mechanical systems as well as new technologies and ideas to the table to drive innovation and reliability.\nResponsible for managing the team’s day-to-day responsibilities and reporting status.\nAssigns priorities to the team and assists them with escalating issues and solving problems.\nOversees the lab and Test engineers who support the product testing, DVT and Regression tests, reviews the tests and results to ensure defect-free product and firmware launches.\nReviews and tracks the engineering OpEx budget for their group.\nManages CapEx projects from initial quoting to commissioning and ability to track the spending and effectively utilize company funds.\nOwnership of product engineering deliverables including quality of customer-facing documentation such as QIG, Technical Manuals etc.\nImplement new processes to improve engineering performance and improves NPDI product launch Time-To-Market metrics.\nOrganizes and actively drives Design Reviews, DFx Reviews, Pilot Builds, Testing, PPAP activities.\nLeads and mentors cross-functional teams to come up with permanent resolutions for the issues identified during these formal reviews.\nThinks strategically, sees bigger picture to effectively improve New Product launch performance and field issues resolution which will positively impact Vertiv Single Phase UPS business positioning, growth, reputation and market share.\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\nBachelor's in Mechanical or Electrical engineering with 7-10+ years experience and 2 years in Engineering Leadership:\nR&D, Product Engineering, Technical team management preferably from electrical distribution system\nProduct Design & Engineering: Full product lifecycle expertise.\nTesting & Compliance: DVT, Regulatory, safety, and certification\nSubject matter expert in electrical/mechanical products & technology, provide technical information on current products pertaining to customer issues or new product specifications.\nExperience in writing &/or approving technical publications, Functional Requirements, Technical Requirements documents.\nExperience in mentoring Product Engineers, Lead Engineers, Sustaining and Test teams to efficiently solve design issues and customer problems.\nExcellent organizational skills, handle multiple priorities, and ability to effectively manage team activities.\nAbility to effectively lead during times of uncertainty and ambiguity by thinking strategically and at the same time providing tactical solutions for superior execution.\nExcellent technical project management skills and ability to effectively communicate project status to senior leadership.\nEngineering software and systems familiarity. Oracle, Agile, Solidworks, Solidworks PDM, PD Cloud, etc.\nExcellent planning, organizing, and communication skills. Ability to successfully communicate and articulate complex topics to a broad range of people in a global team environment.\n\n#LI-RB1","company":"Vertiv","rawCompany":"vertiv","city":"Anderson","state":"SC","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-19T09:06:50.328Z","occupations":[{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"},{"code":"17-2141.00","title":"Mechanical Engineers","slug":"mechanical-engineers"},{"code":"17-2071.00","title":"Electrical Engineers","slug":"electrical-engineers"}],"industries":[{"code":"335313","title":"Switchgear and Switchboard Apparatus Manufacturing","slug":"switchgear-and-switchboard-apparatus-manufacturing"},{"code":"541330","title":"Engineering Services","slug":"engineering-services"},{"code":"333248","title":"All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing","slug":"all-other-industrial-machinery-manufacturing"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Supervisor Mechanical Engineering","description":"The MV Product Development Manager is a high-impact Engineering Site Leader responsible for driving product definition, engineering alignment, and execution excellence across Vertiv’s Medium-Voltage switchgear portfolio. Reporting to the Senior R&D Engineering Manager, this role leads Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers and Test teams to ensure clear product specifications, strong technical direction, and seamless collaboration with design teams.\n\nThis position is accountable for translating customer needs and field insights into robust product requirements, enabling design teams to build reliable, high-quality solutions. The Product Development Manager plays a critical role in delivering fully certified solutions to the market.\n\nThe role sets the standard for execution by prioritizing initiatives, aligning cross-functional stakeholders, and maintaining strong oversight of validation, testing, and release readiness. 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