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Product Manager - Aviation

SPX Corporation

  • Franklin, TN
  • 7 days ago

    Highlights

    As Product Manager - Aviation, you will support and grow our portfolio of airport and heliport lighting solutions by managing assigned products throughout their lifecycle, identifying market opportunities, supporting new product development, and ensuring our solutions continue to meet customer, regulatory, and business needs. As part of Detection and Measurement, Aids to Navigation, including Flash, Sabik Marine and Sealite, are leading providers of lighting and navigational aids for the marine, obstruction, and airfield end markets.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationFranklin, TN
    IndustryEngineering Services
    Company Size5,000 to 9,999 employees
    Year Founded1912
    Websitehttp://www.spx.com/en/

    Description

    Building the people that build the world.

    With platforms in HVAC and Detection and Measurement, SPX Technologies builds innovative solutions that enable a safer, more efficient, sustainable world. Through our RiSE talent development framework, we Reach, Identify, Strengthen, and Engage our employees to support them in their continued development. We're a global company of problem solvers, collaborators, and innovators, and our businesses build solutions that impact the world.

    As part of Detection and Measurement, Aids to Navigation, including Flash, Sabik Marine and Sealite, are leading providers of lighting and navigational aids for the marine, obstruction, and airfield end markets. Offering the broadest portfolio of solutions, we help people transverse the world safely by air, land, and sea.

    How you will make an Impact (Job Summary)

    SPX is a diverse team of unique individuals who all make an impact. As Product Manager - Aviation, you will support and grow our portfolio of airport and heliport lighting solutions by managing assigned products throughout their lifecycle, identifying market opportunities, supporting new product development, and ensuring our solutions continue to meet customer, regulatory, and business needs. Working closely with engineering, sales, operations, quality, and customers, you will help deliver innovative, compliant, and commercially successful aviation lighting products.

    What you can expect in this role (Job Responsibilities)

    While each day brings new opportunities at SPX, your core responsibilities will be:

    1. Product Strategy & Lifecycle Management
    • Manage assigned airport and heliport lighting products throughout their lifecycle.
    • Support development and execution of the aviation lighting product roadmap and portfolio strategy.
    • Assist with portfolio optimization, including lifecycle management and end-of-life planning.
    • Monitor industry trends, emerging technologies, and changes to aviation standards and regulations.
    1. Market & Commercial Growth
    • Gather and analyze customer, market, and competitive insights to identify growth opportunities.
    • Develop product positioning, value propositions, and pricing recommendations.
    • Support product launches, customer introductions, and commercialization activities.
    • Track product performance and recommend initiatives to improve revenue, margin, and market share.
    1. Product Development & Cross-Functional Execution
    • Define product requirements and work closely with engineering teams to develop new products and enhancements.
    • Collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and service teams to ensure successful product delivery and support.
    • Provide technical and product expertise to sales teams, customers, consultants, contractors, and industry stakeholders.

    What we are looking for (Experience, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Education)

    We each bring something to the table, and we are looking for someone who has:

    Required Experience

    • 3-7 years of experience in product management, engineering, technical sales, marketing, or a related commercial role.
    • Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and commercial teams.

    Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

    • Experience in aviation lighting, airport infrastructure, electrical products, industrial technology, or related markets.
    • Understanding of airport and heliport operations and familiarity with ICAO, FAA, EASA, or equivalent aviation standards and regulations.
    • Demonstrated product lifecycle management, market analysis, competitive intelligence, business case development, project management, and commercial acumen.
    • Customer focus, strategic thinking, technical aptitude, cross-functional collaboration, and strong influencing skills; experience in a global business environment is desirable.

    Education & Certifications

    • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Aviation Management, Business, Marketing, or a related field.

    Travel & Working Environment

    • Works closely with engineering, sales, marketing, operations, supply chain, quality, customer support, airport authorities, consultants, and industry partners.
    • Operates in a collaborative, cross-functional, and global business environment.

    How we live our culture

    Our culture is at the center of what we do and, more importantly, who we are. Our core values set a standard for how we manage ourselves, and our Leadership Model sets the standard for how we engage with each other. Whether you are an individual contributor or you lead a large team, each of us leads at SPX.

    What benefits do we offer?

    We know that the well-being of our employees is integral. Our benefits include:

    • Competitive and performance-based compensation packages and bonus plans
    • Educational assistance, leadership development programs, and recognition programs

    Our commitment to embrace diversity to build a culture of inclusion at SPX

    We value different backgrounds, experiences, and voices at SPX, and we are committed to challenging ourselves, openly communicating, and striving to improve every day. We believe in creating an inclusive work environment where everyone has a voice and is encouraged to realise their fullest potential.

    ABOUT SPX

    SPX is a diversified, global supplier of infrastructure equipment with scalable growth platforms in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), detection and measurement, and engineered solutions. With operations in 17 countries and approximately $2.2 billion in annual revenue, we offer a wide array of highly engineered products with strong brands.

    SPX TOTAL REWARDS

    At SPX, what's in it for our employees transcends market-competitive compensation and benefits. Our Total Rewards program also includes opportunities for employees' personal development, career growth, and recognition. These programs focus on alignment and assessment of organizational, team, and individual efforts toward achieving business results. Our development and career growth programs empower our employees to enhance their skills, develop new competencies, and pursue career goals. SPX benefits package provides choices designed to help employees manage their well-being. Our compensation programs are performance-based to recognize and reward employees who work hard, display the values and leadership practices we embrace, and deliver exceptional results.

    OUR VALUES

    • Integrity
    • Accountability
    • Excellence
    • Teamwork
    • Results

    At SPX, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We use our values every day to help us make the right decisions. We embrace a common purpose and strive for improvement. We respect and value each other as individuals and recognize that only by working together, as a team, can we reach our full potential. We take responsibility for our actions, build strong relationships with each other and our customers, and always act ethically. Our values inspire us to achieve the high standards of quality, safety, and performance that our customers expect and deserve.

    WORKING AT SPX

    Our work environment is established on a work-life philosophy supported by policies, programs, and practices that help employees achieve success within and outside the workplace. We believe in creating an inclusive work environment where employees strive to realize their fullest potential. We are an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer committed to making selection decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, gender identity, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected basis.

    About Company

    About SPX

    SPX Corporation is a Fortune 500 multi-industry manufacturing leader. The company offers highly-specialized engineered solutions to solve critical problems for customers.

    SPX is focused on providing solutions that support the expansion of global infrastructure, with particular emphasis on the growing worldwide demand for energy and power. Its innovative product portfolio, containing many energy efficient products, includes cooling systems for power plants throughout the world; custom engineered process equipment that assists a variety of flow processes including food and beverage manufacturing, oil and gas exploration, distribution and refinement and power generation; handheld diagnostic tools that aid in vehicle maintenance and repair; and power transformers that regulate voltage for electrical transmission and distribution by utility companies.

    SPX is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina and has employees in more than 40 countries worldwide.

    Our People

    The SPX team is made up of individuals with a clear sense of urgency. We aim to build a team of people who can inspire and invigorate associates at all levels. We value diversity and seek those who are smart, multidimensional, global thinkers. SPX is highly focused on doing everything simpler, better and faster for preemptive advantage. Excellent communication skills are of utmost importance and we make it our practice to candidly share and actively listen to new ideas.

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