Abb
Direct Workday career site

Product Engineering Manager

Location
Pinetops, NC
Listed
3 days ago

Key Responsibilities

  • Aligning the unit's strategy with global strategy and ensuring operational development including profit and loss.
  • Providing input to the local division / product group strategy and acting as a key player in its implementation and in strengthening a business model relevant to the scope of engineering.
  • Leading the local engineering teams that are responsible for solutions, products, or sector areas and ensuring end-to-end delivery of a portfolio of projects on time.
  • Building and maintaining customer relationships, seeking feedback, and providing innovative solutions to meet customer requirements and deliver improvements.

Qualifications for the role

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (Master's preferred).
  • 10 years of engineering experience in instrument transformers, high-voltage equipment, or related electrical industry products.
  • 5 years of management experience.
  • Experience leading engineering teams in a manufacturing environment.
  • Proficiency with 3D CAD (SolidWorks, Creo, or equivalent) and PLM tools.
  • Familiar with IEC 61869, IEC 60044, IEEE C57.13, and related standards.
  • Demonstrated experience with DFM, FMEA, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement methodologies.
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and project management skills.

What's in it for you

  • We empower you to take initiative, challenge ideas, and lead with confidence.
  • You'll grow through meaningful work, continuous learning, and support that's tailored to your goals.
  • Every idea you share and every action you take contributes to something bigger.

Abb Benefit Summary for eligible US employees

  • [excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]
  • Go to MyBenefitsABB.com and click on "Candidate/Guest" to
  • Health, Life & Disability
  • Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
  • Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
  • Vision benefit
  • Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
  • Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
  • Voluntary life and AD&D - 100% employee paid up to maximums
  • Short Term Disability - up to 26 weeks - Company paid
  • Long Term Disability - 60% of pay - Company paid. Ability to "buy-up" to 66 2/3% of pay.
  • Supplemental benefits - 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
  • Paid Parental Leave.
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
  • Employee discount program

Retirement

  • 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
  • Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
  • Time off
  • Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.

About Abb

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner-and every person here makes that happen. You'll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

This position reports to: Manufacturing Unit Manager

In this role, you will lead the engineering team responsible for the design, development, and lifecycle management of LV and MV Instrument Transformers, Sensors and Outdoor Products -OH Switches, Fuses & Cutouts- used in low- medium- and high-voltage applications.

You will also oversee engineering execution from concept through production, ensuring products meet performance, reliability, manufacturability, cost, and compliance requirements. Each day, you will drive technical excellence, lead cross-functional collaboration with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and product management, and ensure product lines stay competitive and aligned with market and regulatory standards.

The work model for the role is: 100% On Site

This role is contributing to our NAM Electrification Distribution Solutions Operation in Pinetops, NC for ANSI Grid Components.

Our Team Dynamics

Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.

More about us

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid.

The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users.

With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

Join us. Be part of the team where progress happens, industries transform, and your work shapes the world. Run What Runs the World.

  • #ABBCareers
  • #RunwithABB
  • #Runwhatrunstheworld

Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative. That's why we welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.

Ready to make an impact?

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From Abb's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 6, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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