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Position Summary: The Product Development Manager is responsible for leading the technical development, standardization, and release of packaged industrial refrigeration systems, including ammonia and COâ‚‚-based solutions. This role serves as the technical integrator across mechanical, electrical, controls, vessels, and compliance activities, while coordinating closely with manufacturing, suppliers, consultants, and internal stakeholders to bring new packaged refrigeration system product lines from concept through prototype, validation, and product line release.
Key responsibilities:
Product Development & Technical Leadership
- Lead development of packaged industrial refrigeration systems, including prototype units and standardized product lines.
- Drive system-level design coordination across mechanical modules, electrical modules, vessels, condensers, and controls.
- Manage design reviews, track action items, and ensure technical readiness for prototype build and product line release.
- Support transition from prototype designs to repeatable, standardized product architectures.
- Lead laboratory testing and analyze performance data for system capability and operation.
System Integration & Standardization
- Lead efforts to standardize components and instrumentation across refrigeration product lines.
- Evaluate and recommend components, instrumentation, electrical layouts, and piping strategies for packaged systems.
Supplier & Consultant Coordination
- Work directly with external suppliers and consultants on vessels, compressors, controls, and fabricated components.
- Review quotes, approve purchase orders, and manage submittal and approval workflows for critical components.
- Coordinate with consultants on structural, vibration, and hazard analyses supporting packaged system designs.
Manufacturing & Production Support
- Provide direct engineering support to manufacturing during prototype production builds.
- Resolve build issues related to drawings, hardware, purchased parts, and assembly sequencing.
- Support installed cost analysis and manufacturability improvements for packaged systems.
Compliance, Codes & Standards
- Support compliance with applicable industrial refrigeration codes and standards
+ IIAR, UL, safety and hazard reviews.
- Participate in standards discussions affecting packaged refrigeration systems and relay impacts to product development and marketing teams.
- Prepare and maintain hazard review and safety documentation associated with packaged refrigeration equipment.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication
- Technical liaison between engineering, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and field support.
- Provide regular updates to leadership through staff meetings, written updates, and design review documentation.
- Support field issues, customer escalations, and site visits related to system performance.
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering minimum
+ Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering desired.
- Minimum 8 years’ work experience with proven ability to learn new skills and responsibilities.
- Experience with industrial refrigeration equipment, including ammonia and COâ‚‚ systems.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multi-discipline engineering efforts (mechanical, electrical, controls, vessels).
- Experience coordinating with suppliers, consultants, and manufacturing teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation and leadership updates.
Department structure:
- Industrial Refrigeration Product Development Structure
+ Personnel
- 35 – 40 Team Members
- Engineers
- Designers / Drafters
- Laboratory Technicians
+ Product Focus
- Packaged Industrial Refrigeration Systems
- Direct Expansion and Recirculated Liquid
- Ammonia and Carbon Dioxide
- This position will report to the Vice President, Product Development – Industrial Refrigeration.
Position Requirements:
- Communicate professionally & effectively and build consensus across organizational boundaries with conflicting goals, accountabilities, and drivers.
- Drive the development process to deliver results in a fast-paced, performance oriented environment.
- Manage resources, priorities, budgets and schedules for on time delivery of quality products.
- Strong attention to detail, consistent follow through and reliable documentation skills.
- Observe and identify changing market needs for developing new product designs.
- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills required along with the ability to interface and report project status across all levels of management.
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience with FEA, CFD and programming software desired.
- Ability to develop customized heat transfer capacity software.
- Experience with laboratory heat transfer testing and data reduction desired.
- Position will interface internally with Product Development Engineering, Manufacturing, Controls, Sales, Marketing, Field Support, EHS.
- Position will interface externally with component suppliers, fabrication vendors, consultants, standards organizations.
Location: Position is based in Taneytown, MD
- Candidate should expect travel no more than 10% of the time to the various conferences, work locations and customers in the US.
Evapco Benefits and Compensation:
- The salary range consists of base pay and most recent profit sharing bonus amounts.
- Medical, Vision, & Dental Insurance.
- Employee Stock Ownership Program – we are an employee-owned company.
- Profit Sharing Bonus – which is paid twice per year.
- Paid Holidays.
- Paid Vacation.
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave.
- Bereavement Pay.
- Company Paid Basic Life Insurance equivalent to base salary, with option for Supplemental Life election.
- Paid Sick Leave.
- Long Term Disability.
Additional Information: EVAPCO, Inc. is a privately held, employee owned manufacturing company with global resources and solutions for worldwide heat transfer applications. Employees share ownership of the company in an Employee Stock Ownership Program (E.S.O.P.) and share in company profits through a profit sharing plan to foster a high degree of motivation, combined with an excellent benefits plan.
EVAPCO is dedicated to designing and manufacturing the highest quality products for the evaporative cooling and industrial refrigeration markets around the globe. Since its founding in 1976, EVAPCO, Incorporated has become an industry leader in the engineering and manufacturing of quality heat transfer products around the world. EVAPCO’s mission is to provide first class service and quality products in the following markets:
- Commercial HVAC
- Industrial Process
- Power
- Industrial Refrigeration
EVAPCO’s powerful combination of financial strength and technical expertise has established the company as a recognized manufacturer of market-leading products on a worldwide basis. EVAPCO is also recognized for the superior technology of their environmentally friendly product innovations in sound reduction and water management. EVAPCO is an employee owned company with a strong emphasis on research and development and modern manufacturing plants. EVAPCO has earned a reputation for technological innovation and superior product quality by featuring products that are designed to offer these operating advantages:
- Higher System Efficiency
- Environmentally Friendly
- Lower Annual Operating Costs
- Reliable, Simple Operation and Maintenance
With an ongoing commitment to Research and Development programs, EVAPCO provides the most advanced products in the industry – Technology for the Future, Available Today!
Product Development Manager – Packaged Industrial Refrigeration Systems
Position Summary: The Product Development Manager is responsible for leading the technical development, standardization, and release of packaged industrial refrigeration systems, including ammonia and COâ‚‚-based solutions. This role serves as the technical integrator across mechanical, electrical, controls, vessels, and compliance activities, while coordinating closely with manufacturing, suppliers, consultants, and internal stakeholders to bring new packaged refrigeration system product lines from concept through prototype, validation, and product line release.
Key responsibilities:
Product Development & Technical Leadership
- Lead development of packaged industrial refrigeration systems, including prototype units and standardized product lines.
- Drive system-level design coordination across mechanical modules, electrical modules, vessels, condensers, and controls.
- Manage design reviews, track action items, and ensure technical readiness for prototype build and product line release.
- Support transition from prototype designs to repeatable, standardized product architectures.
- Lead laboratory testing and analyze performance data for system capability and operation.
System Integration & Standardization
- Lead efforts to standardize components and instrumentation across refrigeration product lines.
- Evaluate and recommend components, instrumentation, electrical layouts, and piping strategies for packaged systems.
Supplier & Consultant Coordination
- Work directly with external suppliers and consultants on vessels, compressors, controls, and fabricated components.
- Review quotes, approve purchase orders, and manage submittal and approval workflows for critical components.
- Coordinate with consultants on structural, vibration, and hazard analyses supporting packaged system designs.
Manufacturing & Production Support
- Provide direct engineering support to manufacturing during prototype production builds.
- Resolve build issues related to drawings, hardware, purchased parts, and assembly sequencing.
- Support installed cost analysis and manufacturability improvements for packaged systems.
Compliance, Codes & Standards
- Support compliance with applicable industrial refrigeration codes and standards
+ IIAR, UL, safety and hazard reviews.
- Participate in standards discussions affecting packaged refrigeration systems and relay impacts to product development and marketing teams.
- Prepare and maintain hazard review and safety documentation associated with packaged refrigeration equipment.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication
- Technical liaison between engineering, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and field support.
- Provide regular updates to leadership through staff meetings, written updates, and design review documentation.
- Support field issues, customer escalations, and site visits related to system performance.
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering minimum
+ Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering desired.
- Minimum 8 years’ work experience with proven ability to learn new skills and responsibilities.
- Experience with industrial refrigeration equipment, including ammonia and COâ‚‚ systems.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multi-discipline engineering efforts (mechanical, electrical, controls, vessels).
- Experience coordinating with suppliers, consultants, and manufacturing teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation and leadership updates.
Department structure:
- Industrial Refrigeration Product Development Structure
+ Personnel
- 35 – 40 Team Members
- Engineers
- Designers / Drafters
- Laboratory Technicians
+ Product Focus
- Packaged Industrial Refrigeration Systems
- Direct Expansion and Recirculated Liquid
- Ammonia and Carbon Dioxide
- This position will report to the Vice President, Product Development – Industrial Refrigeration.
Position Requirements:
- Communicate professionally & effectively and build consensus across organizational boundaries with conflicting goals, accountabilities, and drivers.
- Drive the development process to deliver results in a fast-paced, performance oriented environment.
- Manage resources, priorities, budgets and schedules for on time delivery of quality products.
- Strong attention to detail, consistent follow through and reliable documentation skills.
- Observe and identify changing market needs for developing new product designs.
- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills required along with the ability to interface and report project status across all levels of management.
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience with FEA, CFD and programming software desired.
- Ability to develop customized heat transfer capacity software.
- Experience with laboratory heat transfer testing and data reduction desired.
- Position will interface internally with Product Development Engineering, Manufacturing, Controls, Sales, Marketing, Field Support, EHS.
- Position will interface externally with component suppliers, fabrication vendors, consultants, standards organizations.
Location: Position is based in Taneytown, MD
- Candidate should expect travel no more than 10% of the time to the various conferences, work locations and customers in the US.
Evapco Benefits and Compensation:
- The salary range consists of base pay and most recent profit sharing bonus amounts.
- Medical, Vision, & Dental Insurance.
- Employee Stock Ownership Program – we are an employee-owned company.
- Profit Sharing Bonus – which is paid twice per year.
- Paid Holidays.
- Paid Vacation.
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave.
- Bereavement Pay.
- Company Paid Basic Life Insurance equivalent to base salary, with option for Supplemental Life election.
- Paid Sick Leave.
- Long Term Disability.
Additional Information: EVAPCO, Inc. is a privately held, employee owned manufacturing company with global resources and solutions for worldwide heat transfer applications. Employees share ownership of the company in an Employee Stock Ownership Program (E.S.O.P.) and share in company profits through a profit sharing plan to foster a high degree of motivation, combined with an excellent benefits plan.
EVAPCO is dedicated to designing and manufacturing the highest quality products for the evaporative cooling and industrial refrigeration markets around the globe. Since its founding in 1976, EVAPCO, Incorporated has become an industry leader in the engineering and manufacturing of quality heat transfer products around the world. EVAPCO’s mission is to provide first class service and quality products in the following markets:
- Commercial HVAC
- Industrial Process
- Power
- Industrial Refrigeration
EVAPCO’s powerful combination of financial strength and technical expertise has established the company as a recognized manufacturer of market-leading products on a worldwide basis. EVAPCO is also recognized for the superior technology of their environmentally friendly product innovations in sound reduction and water management. EVAPCO is an employee owned company with a strong emphasis on research and development and modern manufacturing plants. EVAPCO has earned a reputation for technological innovation and superior product quality by featuring products that are designed to offer these operating advantages:
- Higher System Efficiency
- Environmentally Friendly
- Lower Annual Operating Costs
- Reliable, Simple Operation and Maintenance
With an ongoing commitment to Research and Development programs, EVAPCO provides the most advanced products in the industry – Technology for the Future, Available Today!
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Product Development Manager
Frame your credentials for U.S. specialty occupation
Your Australian three-year bachelor's degree counts as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree, but your offer letter must tie your specific degree field to the Product Development Manager role. Ask your employer to spell out that connection explicitly in the LCA documentation.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search DOL's public LCA disclosure data for companies that have certified Labor Condition Applications for product management roles. Employers who've filed before understand the process and won't treat your E-3 sponsorship request as a novel ask.
Clarify product scope before the offer stage
Product Development Manager is a broad title. Before accepting an offer, confirm the role involves specialized knowledge in a defined field, such as hardware, software, or regulated goods. Vague scope makes it harder to establish specialty occupation at the consulate.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the full process
Once you have an offer, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork end-to-end. This avoids the coordination gaps that occur when applicants manage DOL filings and consulate prep separately without E-3-specific experience.
Negotiate your start date around LCA certification timing
DOL certifies LCAs within seven business days in standard cases, but your employer needs time to prepare the filing beforehand. Build at least three weeks between your offer acceptance and target start date so certification doesn't become the bottleneck.
Prepare for nonimmigrant intent questions at the consulate
Consular officers will assess your ties to Australia. Product leaders with equity, ongoing directorships, or property back home should document those ties and be ready to speak to them directly. This is a routine check, not a barrier, if you're prepared.
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Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australians searching for U.S. roles with E-3 sponsorship. You can filter by job title and location to find Product Development Manager positions at employers already familiar with the E-3 process, which significantly reduces back-and-forth with HR teams who haven't encountered the visa before.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Product Development Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, provided the position genuinely requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as engineering, industrial design, or business. The title alone isn't enough. The job duties must demand that specialized theoretical knowledge. Generalist management roles where any degree qualifies are harder to support at the consulate.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Product Development Manager roles?
The E-3 has no annual cap and no lottery, so you can apply at any point in the year and start as soon as your visa is approved. H-1B registrations are entered into a lottery each April, and cap-subject approvals don't take effect until October 1. For Australians, the E-3 is a far more predictable path to a product leadership role.
Can I change employers while working in the U.S. on an E-3 as a Product Development Manager?
Yes, but you need a new E-3 for each employer. Your current visa is tied to the sponsoring company, so if you change roles, your new employer must file a fresh LCA and you'll need to either get a new visa stamp at a consulate or, in some cases, file a change of status with USCIS. Start that process before your last day with the current employer.
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