Product Engineer / Product Manager
Summary
Liburdi, a Hamilton-based manufacturer of specialized welding equipment for nuclear, power generation, and petro-chemical industries, seeks a Product Engineer/Product Manager to maintain existing product designs and lead improvements and next-generation revisions. Day to day: liaising across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality, prioritizing stakeholder feedback, and coordinating
- Act as the primary liaison between Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Production teams regarding standard product improvements
- Review, assess, summarize, and prioritize feedback from stakeholders related to product performance, manufacturability, quality, and supportability
- Identify gaps, deficiencies, and improvement opportunities within product documentation, drawings, bills of material, work instructions, and related technical documents
- Develop recommendations for design and documentation updates
- Coordinate and oversee implementation of approved changes through the Engineering and Design teams
- Track and manage product-related issues to ensure timely resolution and continuous improvement
- Evaluate existing product designs and identify opportunities for improvement based on manufacturing experience, supply chain feedback, quality data, customer input, and competitive analysis
- Lead the planning and execution of product design revisions and generational product updates
- Develop recommendations and executive-level summaries that enable efficient decision-making by management
- Coordinate design changes from concept through documentation, validation, production release, and field implementation
- Assess the impact of product changes on existing inventory, works-in-progress, service parts, installed customer equipment, and future production requirements
- Develop and execute structured rollout plans that minimize operational disruption and support existing customer installations
- Participate in design reviews, technical meetings, testing activities, and production readiness reviews
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong ability to work effectively across multiple departments with differing priorities and objectives
- Demonstrated ability to collect information from multiple sources, critically assess technical and business impacts, and provide clear recommendations
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Ability to work independently and take initiative
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Professional, collaborative, and customer-focused approach
- Engineering Bachelor’s Degree or Engineering Technology Diploma required (Mechanical or Mechatronics preferred)
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in engineering, manufacturing, product support, product management, or project engineering roles required
- Experience working in a manufacturing environment is required
- Experience with mechanical design and engineering drawings is required
- Experience managing technical projects or engineering change processes is considered an asset
- Experience with standard or productionized products is highly desirable
- Awareness of ISO 9001