Product Improvement Manager

Location:Davis, CA, US

Employment type: Employee

Place of work: Hybrid

Offshore/Onshore: Onshore

TechnipFMC is committed to driving real change in the energy industry. Our ambition is to build a sustainable future through relentless innovation and global collaboration – and we want you to be part of it. You’ll be joining a culture that values curiosity, expertise, and ideas as well as diversity, inclusion, and authenticity. Bring your unique energy to our team of more than 20,000 people worldwide, and discover a rewarding, fulfilling, and varied career that you can take in anywhere you want to go.

Hiring Product Improvement Manager for the Davis, CA location!

The Schilling Robotics business unit develops complex electro-mechanical robotics and teleoperated vehicles for use in the deep ocean. The Product Improvement Manager will be responsible for leading a team of engineers to improve performance, reliability, cost or safety of existing products. This requires the application of structured problem solving techniques to resolve complex electro-mechanical issues.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job Description

- Understand and direct technical projects and manage issues across multiple disciplines

- Lead cross-functional teams and technical personnel

- Apply structure problem solving techniques to resolve problems

- Determine best course of action for completion of assignments and establishment of priorities within assigned work areas

- Coordinate Product Improvement review sessions and track progress and cost of multiple projects

- Reports project status to a cross-functional group including customer service, manufacturing, sales, and purchasing

- Adherence to various engineering, documentation, quality and safety standards (ISO, IPC, etc.)

- Continuously improve the processes and systems used to manage product improvement work

- Provides leadership, career development, technical guidance, training and performance feedback to direct reports

- Creates short term and long term staffing plans for the team

- Adheres to the approved budget

- Interfaces directly with customers to provide technical guidance

- Other duties, as assigned

You are meant for this job if:

- Minimum of BS in Engineering, or related field

- 10 years engineering experience in product development; preferable in the subsea industry

- 2 years in engineering lead or management role

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

- MS degree in related discipline.

- Knowledge of real time operating systems, robotics, Linux.

- Experience utilizing Lean Engineering techniques.

- Ability to create strategic intent and communicate it in way that is clear and motivating to other managers, project teams, and individual contributors

- Ability to identify on the ground needs and communicate them in a way that influences business unit leadership.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

- Regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, kneel, listen and speak for long periods of time.

- Manual dexterity using hands, fingers, and arms to push, pull, reach, grab, hold, and lift.

- Wear steel toe shoes, safety glasses and other personal protective equipment as needed.

- Ability to lift up to 40 pounds.

- Frequent use of PC.

- Close visual acuity is required to perform activities such a viewing computer screens and reading.

Salary and Benefits

Salary $101,000-$187,600

TechnipFMC offers employees a comprehensive benefits package. Benefits provided for this position may include the following: health care benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage; Flexible and Health Spending Accounts; Life and Accidental Death and Disability insurance; Supplemental Life and Accidental Death and Disability insurance for employee and dependents; retirement benefits including a 401(k) with employer and employee contributions, paid time off, paid holidays, a flexible work schedule and many voluntary benefit plans.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without restriction. For this position we are not sponsoring or taking over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Skills

Engineering Documentation - SSE Eng.

Engineering Drawings, Dimensioning and Tolerancing - SSE Eng.

Leadership

Being a global leader in the energy industry requires an inclusive and diverse environment. TechnipFMC promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities to all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, gender expressions, disabilities, or all other pluralities. We celebrate who you are and what you bring. Every voice matters and we encourage you to add to our culture.

TechnipFMC respects the rights and dignity of those it works with and promotes adherence to internationally recognized human rights principles for those in its value chain.

Date posted: Sep 3, 2025

Requisition number: 14877

Nearest Major Market: Sacramento