Product Manager - Compressed Air

Who we are:

Aerzen USA Corp. is an international manufacturer of positive displacement blowers, hybrid blowers, screw compressors and turbo blowers. These high-quality machines are used for air and gas applications across many essential industries, including; Wastewater, Cement, Biogas, Pharmaceutical and Food, among many others. We are One Team, and we Empower our team members to be both Inquisitive and Evolutionary.

• What we offer:

Aerzen USA offers a competitive salary; generous health benefits (to include 96% company-paid benefit plans) with company HSA contribution; a 401(k) with company match; a tuition reimbursement program; and a profit share bonus package; along with the opportunity to work with a dynamic group of professionals.

What you'll do:

The Product Manager compressed air owns the definition and translation of USA market requirements for the compressed air product portfolio and drives near-term execution with the existing supply chain to capture short-term opportunities. This role serves as the primary liaison across USA stakeholders and global partners to ensure product strategy alignment.

Essential functions & responsibilities:

• Define and maintain USA product requirements and gap analysis for the portfolio (e.g., compliance, performance, documentation, testing).
• Lead the "critical path" work to fully understand and drive required changes for the USA market, including ASME, UL listing, and efficiency/testing requirements as applicable.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders (sales, service, engineering, sourcing, and parent-company product teams) to refine the product portfolio and ensure readiness for quoting and near-term delivery.
• Drive product strategy and readiness - product positioning inputs, competitive insights, and selling tools; enable training for internal/external sales/service.
• Capture and process voice-of-customer / voice-of-channel inputs to refine requirements and roadmap.
• Coordinate product change activities (requests, prioritization, scope) and ensure cross-functional alignment to execute changes.
• Ensure product requirements flow into engineering deliverables (drawings, BOMs, spec sheets, manuals) and downstream operational readiness.
• Partner with supply chain/sourcing to identify and qualify suppliers, support vendor set-up and ongoing vendor management, and inform tariff and cost considerations.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (Engineering or Business; Engineering preferred).
• 5+ years in industrial equipment product management, product marketing, or sales engineering within industrial equipment; compressed air experience strongly preferred.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and ability to translate market needs into engineering and supply chain actions.
• Ability to operate in a startup/greenfield environment with high ambiguity.
• Must be able to travel 30-40% of the time as required.

More about us:

Aerzen USA was founded in 1983 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Aerzener Maschinenfabrik GmbH, a recognized world leader in the production of rotary positive displacement machines since 1868. Aerzen USA is headquartered in Coatesville, PA, with multiple offices and service centers throughout the United States. Aerzen USA designs and manufactures positive displacement blowers, hybrid blowers, screw compressors, and high-speed turbo blowers with installations around the world. The company specializes in wastewater treatment aeration, pneumatic conveying of bulk materials, and process gas conveying with high-efficiency equipment and world-class product service and support.

For more information visit our website at: www.aerzen.com

Aerzen USA Corp is an equal opportunity employer and selects employees on the basis of skills and experience. Aerzen USA ensures that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, disability, veteran's status, and any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. All employment decisions and actions are based on merit and made without regard to any characteristic protected by state, federal or local law.

All offers of employment at Aerzen USA Corp are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check. In compliance with the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988, Aerzen USA Corp has a longstanding commitment to provide a safe, quality-oriented, and productive work environment. Alcohol and drug misuse poses a threat to the health and safety of Aerzen employees and to the security of the company's equipment and facilities. For these reasons, Aerzen USA Corp is committed to the elimination of drug and alcohol use and misuse in the workplace. Applicants being considered for hire must pass a drug test before beginning work. Refusal to submit to testing will result in disqualification of further employment consideration.

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