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About the Role
The Manager, HW VAVE Engineering is a hands-on working manager responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team and executing high-impact VAVE projects. This role is accountable for building and executing the VAVE roadmap to deliver cost reduction, supply continuity, lifecycle sustainment, and manufacturability improvements while maintaining product performance, reliability, quality, and regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of electrical and mechanical VAVE engineers, setting clear priorities and accountability.
- Act as a hands-on working manager by directly owning and executing high-impact VAVE projects.
- Deliver annual VAVE targets for cost reduction, obsolescence mitigation, and supply continuity.
- Identify, prioritize, and drive VAVE opportunities including BOM optimization, part standardization, alternate sourcing, and design simplification.
- Provide technical leadership on electrical and mechanical changes, ensuring fit/form/function, reliability, and manufacturability are maintained.
- Define and execute validation plans and resolve technical issues through structured root-cause and corrective actions.
- Collaborate with sourcing, quality, operations, and suppliers to implement approved changes into production.
- Ensure high-quality ECO/ECN documentation and smooth release execution from approval to plant implementation.
- Track and report delivery metrics including savings, cycle time, implementation status, quality impact, and risk reduction.
- Communicate project status, risks, and recovery actions clearly to cross-functional teams and leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering.
- 8+ years of experience in electronic hardware design, sustaining engineering, or VAVE-focused product engineering.
- 3+ years of people leadership experience, with demonstrated success as a player-coach/working manager.
- Proven record of personally delivering technical projects tied to measurable cost reduction and lifecycle outcomes.
- Strong expertise in both electrical and mechanical change impact assessment.
- Experience with ECO/ECN, validation, production release, and supplier qualification processes.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with operations, sourcing, quality, and suppliers.
Skills
- DFM/DFA/DFX
- Should-cost methods
- FMEA/8D
- Design validation tools
- PLM
- ECAD/MCAD systems
- Compliance impacts (UL, EMC/EMI, environmental requirements)
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Hybrid (4 days onsite)
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience
- 3+ years of people leadership experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering
Benefits
- Eligible to earn a discretionary bonus based on performance metrics and other criteria.
About the Company
- Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS) is taking fueling and convenience retail to the next level, passionate about cultivating excellence.
- DFS is part of a legacy of leadership, made up of trusted, leading-edge brands in the industry.
- As part of Dover Corporation, DFS provides advanced fuel-dispensing equipment, including clean energy solutions, systems and payment, automatic tank gauging and wet stock-management solutions.
- DFS comprises the product brands of Wayne Fueling Systems, OPW Fuel Management Systems, ClearView, Tokheim, ProGauge, Fairbanks, LIQAL, AvaLAN, and Bulloch Technologies.
- Headquartered in Austin, TX, DFS has a significant technology development and manufacturing presence worldwide.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other factors prohibited by law.