Engineering Manager – Design, Configuration

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and enhance a multidisciplinary engineering team involved in product development, new product introduction (NPI), production, and ongoing support activities.

• Establish priorities, expectations, and accountability; oversee staffing, development, workload, and capacity across various projects and product platforms.

• Collaborate with technical leads and program stakeholders to define schedules, resource plans, and deliverables.

• Ensure accountability between engineering management and discipline technical leads.

• Facilitate design reviews and escalations, address cross-discipline challenges, and communicate technical, schedule, and resource risks along with mitigation plans.

• Promote consistent engineering standards and configuration discipline across CAD models, drawings, electrical schematics, bills of materials (BOMs), technical documentation, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) records.

• Ensure alignment and traceability among CAD structures, engineering BOMs, released documentation, and product configurations.

• Enhance PLM/configuration governance, including revision management, baselining, effectivity, lifecycle states, and release readiness.

• Guarantee disciplined execution of Engineering Change Requests (ECR) and Engineering Change Notices (ECN) along with change control processes.

• Establish dependable release practices and enhance data quality, documentation, and engineering workflows.

• Collaborate with Systems, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Technical Program Management, and Product Management teams.

• Support prototype builds, NPI, production ramp-up, sustaining engineering, and significant design or field issues, including root-cause analysis and corrective action activities.

• Represent Design & Configuration priorities, risks, resource needs, and execution status in customer, business, and technical reviews.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems, Manufacturing Engineering, Engineering Technology, or another relevant technical field; a combination of education, technical experience, and training may also be considered.

• Over 8 years of engineering experience in supporting complex electromechanical, industrial, infrastructure, or similarly intricate products.

• At least 3 years of engineering leadership experience, including people management or oversight of multidisciplinary engineering teams.

• Proven experience leading seasoned engineers or technical leads across multiple priorities and lifecycle phases, such as product development, NPI, production, and/or sustaining engineering.

• Familiarity with design reviews, CAD/BOM alignment, PLM/configuration management, engineering change control, baselining, product release, and technical issue resolution.

• Demonstrated cross-functional experience collaborating with mechanical, electrical, program management, manufacturing, quality, and supply-chain teams.

• Strong skills in people leadership, coaching, communication, and cross-functional influence.

• Comprehensive understanding of mechanical and electrical engineering interfaces and their relation to CAD, BOMs, PLM, and configuration-controlled product data.

• Robust knowledge of product lifecycle, engineering change, configuration management, baselining, release, and traceability practices.

• Ability to translate program objectives into priorities, resource plans, and deliverables; identify technical, schedule, and capacity risks; and implement mitigation and escalation strategies.

• Sound technical judgment in dynamic, geographically dispersed environments with evolving requirements and interfaces.

• Willingness to travel as necessary.

• Preferred: Master’s degree in Engineering, Engineering Management, or a related field.

• Preferred experience with Creo and/or SolidWorks; EPLAN, AutoCAD Electrical, SolidWorks Electrical, and/or Edge Electrical; and PLM/configuration-controlled engineering environments.

• Familiarity with relevant IEC, UL, or related product standards; experience with NPI, global manufacturing operations, team scaling, or project/program management is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Short-term incentive based on performance.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.

• Paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during the first year of employment.

• 4 weeks of paid parental leave.

• 11 company-paid holidays in 2027 (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays), subject to annual changes.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Employee stock purchase plan.