Sr. Engineering Manager

Fieldpiece Instruments is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager with hardware expertise and a strong background in R&D / new product development to manage a cross-functional and matrixed engineering team.  You'll provide strategic direction, remove roadblocks, oversee policies and workflows, build organizational capabilities and capacity, and manage the engineering budget.  You'll foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and customer-centric innovation.  Finally, you'll manage strategic supplier relationships to support corporate growth objectives.

The ideal candidate brings over 10 years of R&D engineering and product development experience.  You excel at developing engineers and ensuring the team is efficiently resourced on various product development projects to bring maximum results.  You’ve created and managed budgets and worked effectively with ODMs and other strategic suppliers.  Finally, you bring decisive, empathic leadership to a people-first, collaborative environment.  This position requires up to 25% travel. 

Fieldpiece is a thriving team of innovators - committed to pushing boundaries and celebrating curiosity.  We’ve been providing HVACR professionals with rugged, feature-rich tools like meters, manifolds, leak detectors, and more since 1990.  Fieldpiece leads the industry in the way we think, work, collaborate, and remain laser-focused on creating products that empower HVACR professionals – today and tomorrow.  If you thrive in an environment where challenges are embraced, ambiguity fuels innovation, and relationships are built on trust and transparency—this is your opportunity.

As one of the Best Places to Work in SoCal (2023 & 2024), we’re proud of our people-first culture and Hire to Retire philosophy.  We offer a hybrid (3 days onsite), flexible work schedule, a kitchen full of snacks to keep you charged throughout the day and a unique, onsite music room with complimentary guitar and piano lessons.

What You’ll Do

• Promote a productive, growth-oriented R&D culture focused on innovation, quality, user experience, and customer needs.   
• Develop engineering capabilities and capacity aligned with company strategy.
• Manage and mentor matrixed engineering teams embedded in cross-functional product development, ensure resource alignment, utilization, and accountability. 
• Demonstrate empathetic, decisive leadership that supports employee growth and well-being and organizational effectiveness. 
• Optimize R&D operations and apply Lean tools to enhance productivity and execution.
• Implement efficient, cost-effective workflows that support high-quality, timely product delivery. 
• Resolve engineering, customer, supplier, and quality issues with urgency and effectiveness.
• Develop and manage the R&D budget to ensure optimal resource allocation across multiple simultaneous projects.
• Build and maintain strong ODM and strategic supplier relationships to expand development capabilities.
• Be a talent magnet. Cultivate and retain a high-performing team that demonstrates grit and resilience to meet commitments despite roadblocks and consistently delivers outstanding results. 

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM or related field; Master’s or MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including managing cross-functional and matrixed teams in an R&D environment.
• Proven experience leading NPD initiatives and managing ODM/strategic supplier relationships.
• Expertise in budgeting, resource planning, and performance management.