Job Description:
At Pentair, you will work alongside passionate problem-solvers who are committed to the future of our planet. We put our mission into practice, helping the world sustainably move, improve, and enjoy water, life's most essential resource. From our residential water filtration to industrial water management to pool products and more, our 9,000 global employees serve customers in more than 150 countries, working to help create a better world for people and the planet through smart, sustainable water solutions.
We have an opportunity for an Engineering Manager, Electrical, to join our Apex NC team. You will lead the electrical engineering discipline for Pentair Pool's connected-product portfolio and partners closely with the IoT Engineering organization to deliver connected pool products that set the standard for reliability, performance, and user experience.
You will:
Team Leadership & Talent Development
Lead, coach, and develop a team of 4-6 Electrical Engineers designing new-product hardware for connected pool equipment.
Serve as a player-coach — set technical direction, review designs, and remain hands-on in architecture and design-review discussions.
Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and succession planning for the electrical engineering team.
Foster a culture of engineering excellence, design ownership, and continuous improvement across the electrical discipline.
Electrical Design & Technical Execution
Direct end-to-end electrical design of mixed-signal PCBAs for microcontroller-based control boards, power electronics, motor drives, sensor interfaces, and safety-critical circuits.
Oversee integrated RF/wireless design across Wi-Fi, BLE, Thread/Matter, and Sub-GHz technologies for connected pool products.
Establish and maintain electrical design standards, schematic and layout best practices, component selection guidelines, and design-review discipline aligned with IPC and industry norms.
Guide the team through architecture trade-offs across cost, performance, reliability, EMC, safety, and manufacturability.
Cross-Functional Partnership
Partner tightly with the IoT Engineering organization — home of the embedded firmware function — to align hardware architecture, peripheral selection, communication interfaces, and integrated system behavior for connected products.
Collaborate with Mechanical Engineering, Systems Architects, Industrial Design, and Product Management to translate product requirements into robust electrical architectures.
Engage Sustaining, VAVE, Manufacturing, SQA, and Reliability partners to enable design-for-manufacture, design-for-cost, and design-for-reliability outcomes from program kickoff.
Coordinate with Regulatory Compliance and external certification bodies (UL, CSA, FCC) throughout the design cycle.
Program Delivery & Process Discipline
Manage electrical workload, resource allocation, and deliverables across concurrent NPD programs to meet cost, quality, and schedule commitments.
Drive electrical execution through Pentair's stage-gate NPD process, contributing to specification quality at the front end of every program.
Own electrical design reviews, DVT planning, EMC/regulatory test readiness, and design-transfer to manufacturing.
Track and report on team-level KPIs including on-time deliverables, first-pass design success, and post-launch electrical quality.
Quality, Reliability & Compliance
Ensure electrical designs meet applicable safety and regulatory standards including UL 1081, UL 1563, UL 676, NEC 680, and FCC Part 15.
Champion electrical FMEA, worst-case analysis, derating, and reliability practices across the team.
Support failure analysis and RMA root-cause investigations for shipping products; feed lessons learned back into design standards and NPD programs.
Advance a culture of first time-right electrical design through peer review, structured design verification, and documented design intent.
Key Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in…