Design Manager

Job Description

Grow with us as a Design Manager

Your main challenge as a Design Manager at Xylem is coaching, mentoring and developing the engineering team (4 direct reports). Moreover, with a hands-on mentality you manage and execute different design/engineering activities on for example Godwin Pumps and Drivers, Packaged Godwin Units, special orders. We seek someone to inspire our employees and work together with towards our joined goal at Xylem: Creating a world without water problems. Let’s solve water, together!

Your Essential Duties/Principal Responsibilities:

• Coach, mentor and develop employees, including overseeing new employee’s onboarding and providing career development planning and opportunities.
• Overall responsibility for quality, manufacturability, technical documentation, product safety and ESH for owned designs.
• Create modular designs for the packaging of standard Godwin pumps and drivers
• Active involvement in new designs for packaged Godwin units
• Manage the engineering activities (costing, BOM, design, component selection, documentation, production engineering e.t.c) required for special orders to meet expected manufacturing timescales.
• Support customers, operations and supply chain (Technical Inquires, Quality issues etc.)
• Owner of the ECR Kanban Board and PLM Change Process
• Support the Department head in the development of the technical product roadmap
• Work with and initiate continuous improvements within own area
• Responsible for the administration of Engineering Systems used in the department (PLM, CAD, e.t.c)
• In addition, support other tasks within the company.

What we seek in our new Design Manager

Professional skills

• Master/Bachelor of Engineering or equivalent working experience. We ideally seek someone with relevant experience/exposure in diesel engine driven equipment, but are open to more diverse engineering background.

Personal skills

• Structured with the ability to prioritize
• Good qualities of leadership to keep inspiring and engaging our team
• Flexible and open mindset: You support the Department head in the development of the technical product roadmap, where we are open towards new technologies and changes
• Persistent
• Independent
• Power of initiative and driven: let’s think and act in opportunities by continuously improving our products and ways of working!
• Negotiation capabilities

The role is predominantly site based, with the possibility on the longer run to do hybrid home/site-based working.

Excited? Apply now, and let’s solve water together!

Xylem |ˈzīləm|

1) The tissue in plants that brings water upward from the roots;

2) a leading global water technology company.

Xylem, a leading global water technology company dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues, is the leading global provider of efficient, innovative and sustainable water technologies improving the way water is used, managed, conserved and re-used. Our international team is unified in a common purpose: creating advanced technology and other trusted solutions to solve the world’s water challenges. We are committed to creating an organization of inclusion and diversity, where everyone feels involved, respected, valued and connected, and where everyone is free to bring their authentic selves and ideas.

If you are excited and passionate about helping us #letssolvewater, we want to hear from you! For more information, please visit us at www.xylem.com​.

We Offer You More Than Just “A Job”

• Professional Development – To advance the capabilities of our people, we offer a wide variety of experiences to support our employees’ professional growth and continuous learning.
• Total Rewards – We offer comprehensive programs for compensation, benefits, recognition, learning and development, work-life integration and corporate citizenship.
• Watermark – Watermark is our corporate social responsibility program working to provide education and access to safe water to ensure healthy lives, gender equality, and resilient communities. Employees have the opportunity to learn and volunteer on various water-related projects.
• Employee Networks – Our Employee Networks provide a professional, supportive network for employees from diverse backgrounds, including Women’s, LGBT+ and Allies, Veteran’s, People of Color and Allies, Emerging Leaders, and Working Parents Networks.