Product Integration & Sustainability Manager

Product Integration & Sustainability Manager

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Date:May 20, 2026

Location: Detroit, MI, US

Company: Leggett & Platt

We make life more comfortable.

Leggett & Platt’s overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.

Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership span more than 130 years. Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products for all areas of life. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the automotive, furniture, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile and geo components industries.

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Automotive

Leggett & Platt Automotive is a global provider of wire forms, mechanical control cables, wireless charging, as well as seat lumbar, suspension, bolster, actuator, and motor systems. In addition to these award-winning, category-leading products, we offer tailored goods due to our expertise in product development and attention to market trends. Our unique competitive advantages give us unmatched insight into the demands of the consumer.

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We’re Hiring: Product Integration & Sustainability Manager

Global Automotive | Engineering Excellence | Sustainability

Are you ready to shape how next-generation automotive products are designed, built, and launched?

We’re looking for a Product Integration & Sustainability Manager to lead the integration of manufacturing, quality, cost, and sustainability into product design—right from concept to industrialisation.

Your mission:

Drive “right-first-time” product development by embedding:

Design for Manufacturing, Production & Quality

Virtual validation (FEA & simulation)

Sustainability (CO₂, materials, recyclability)

Your impact:

Reduce late-stage design changes

Improve launch readiness

Make sustainability a core engineering input—not an afterthought

Align engineering with real-world production and supplier constraints

Your role:

Act as the bridge between Engineering & Operations, leading global cross-functional collaboration and setting the standards for engineering excellence.

✅ You bring:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing, or similar)

6Sigma black belt is an asset.

5 years experience in manufacturing-driven product development

Expertise in industrialisation, DfX methodologies, and cross-functional leadership

A systems mindset balancing cost, quality, speed, and sustainability

⚡ Ready to redefine engineering excellence and sustainable innovation?

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Our Values

Our values speak to our shared beliefs, and describe how we approach working together.

• Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.

• Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth – good or bad.

• Do Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without hierarchy, collaborate as a team, embrace challenges, and work for the good of all of us.

• Take Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrates our responsibility to add value and make a difference, challenge the status quo and biases to make things better, foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact, and explore new perspectives and embrace change.

Our Commitment to You

We're actively taking steps to make sure our culture, processes and practices promote equal opportunity for all. Join us!

We welcome and encourage all applicants to apply. We’d love the opportunity to consider you.

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