Program Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Act as a technical and program partner across various projects and opportunities within a specific customer vertical.

• Maintain visibility and alignment across both active and future projects.

• Ensure that functional designs are robust, executable, and consistent with best practices as well as DCS standards.

• Assist with engineering estimates, schedules, resource planning, and scope definitions.

• Identify, communicate, and mitigate risks related to design, schedule, vendors, and execution.

• Coordinate efforts among Mechanical Engineering, Project Engineering, Controls, PMs, vendors, and external partners.

• Participate in heartbeat meetings, coordination meetings, forecast reviews, design reviews, customer FE calls, and engineering calls.

• Oversee the program's lessons-learned process and drive continuous improvements.

• Identify resource constraints and communicate risks related to staffing, skills, and capacity to leadership.

• Review dashboards, trackers, and reporting tools to assess project status, demand, risks, requirements, and readiness.

• Mentor engineers and members of the project team.

• Provide guidance to sales, applications, and program management on pursuit strategies, solution fit, execution risks, and customer priorities.

• Review proposals, define functional scopes, clarify mechanical requirements, and support pre-contract reviews.

• Manage engineering hour estimates and support ROM pricing and validation of labor/materials.

• Review project schedules and assist with go/no-go evaluations.

• Ensure readiness for execution by aligning scope, schedule, and engineering deliverables.

• Support testing plans, site activities, go-live execution, and critical-phase onsite or remote support.

• Serve as the Engineering escalation point for the program portfolio.

• Evaluate, onboard, assess, and train vendors as part of Supplier Development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.

• Over 5 years of experience in material handling system design and delivery engineering.

• Strong expertise in engineering and design.

• Understanding of how systems transition from concept to execution.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.

• Excellent cross-functional communication skills and the ability to influence without direct authority.

• Strong commercial acumen, including estimating, proposal support, and cost evaluation.

• Proactive in identifying risks and aligning with stakeholders.

• Willingness to travel 30–40% of a typical year.

• Highly organized, capable of tracking multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and deliverables at once.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salaries and health benefits.

• 401K program with a 100% match up to 5%.

• Participation in the Discretionary Profit-Sharing Program.

• Flexible PTO.

• Flexibility and autonomy in the workplace.

• Casual work environment.

• Community outreach projects throughout the year.

• Company events.

• Snack wall.