Engineering & Productization Manager – Fabrication & Manufacturing

Loenbro•Dallas, TX

About The Position

The Engineering & Productization Manager converts market demand and project opportunities into standardized, repeatable, commercially viable fabricated and manufactured solutions. The role advances Loenbro’s transition from project-specific fabrication to a scalable manufacturing platform and reports to the Senior Vice President of Manufacturing. The Manager leads technical development and productization of integrated modular solutions for targeted end markets. The role builds relationships with external partners and internal operating groups to identify recurring needs, define product requirements, and develop solutions suited to off-site manufacturing and field installation. It serves as the technical integrator for a hub-and-spoke manufacturing model, coordinating final assembly, integration, testing, and shipment through designated hubs while allocating components and subassemblies to spoke facilities where capabilities, capacity, quality, logistics, and economics support the work. The position combines engineering leadership, design management, product-development discipline, manufacturing knowledge, commercial judgment, and relationship-building. It guides concepts through design, validation, pilot production, standard release, configuration control, commercialization, and continuous improvement. The role also leads and develops technical teams, establishes engineering and product-development processes, and collaborates across Business Development, Estimating, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, Projects, Quality, and Operations. The work combines office or remote work with frequent travel—approximately 30–50% based on business needs—to customer sites, partner facilities, manufacturing hubs and spokes, and industrial job sites. Site visits may involve exposure to noise, dust, chemicals, or other typical fabrication and manufacturing conditions. Compliance with applicable safety regulations, PPE requirements, and Loenbro EH&S policies is required.

Requirements

At least 10 years of progressive experience in engineering management, product development, modularization, fabrication, manufacturing, EPC, industrial construction, systems integration, or a related environment.
Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineered products, skids, modules, packaged systems, or repeatable fabricated assemblies from concept through production and field deployment.
Strong working knowledge of engineering deliverables, BIM/VDC, procurement, fabrication, manufacturing, quality, testing, logistics, installation, commissioning, and project execution.
Demonstrated knowledge of DfMA, constructability, modularization, standardization, configuration management, and design change control.
Experience managing external engineering firms, consultants, OEMs, packaging partners, or other technical partners.
Ability to evaluate technical feasibility, customer value, manufacturing readiness, risk, cost, schedule, capacity, and return on investment.
Ability to interpret contracts, scopes, drawings, models, calculations, specifications, codes, bills of material, and technical submittals.
Strong commercial judgment and ability to collaborate with Business Development, Estimating, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, Projects, and Operations.
Strong leadership, facilitation, negotiation, presentation, written communication, and executive stakeholder-management skills.
Ability and willingness to travel regularly to customer, partner, project, supplier, and Loenbro manufacturing locations.
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Structural, Industrial, Manufacturing, or another relevant engineering discipline; equivalent highly relevant technical leadership experience may be considered.
Ability to comply with applicable safety regulations, PPE requirements, and Loenbro EH&S policies.

Nice To Haves

Professional Engineer licensure, or ability to work effectively within a delegated professional-design structure.
Advanced degree in engineering, engineering management, manufacturing, or business.
Experience with integrated mechanical/electrical modules, data-center cooling systems, electrical skids, modular piping, utility racks, packaged power systems, process modules, or similar manufactured solutions.
Experience developing and commercializing product platforms in an engineer-to-order, configure-to-order, or mass-customization environment.
Knowledge of applicable ASME, AWS, API, NEC, UL, NFPA, IBC, and other codes and certification frameworks relevant to target products.
Experience with product lifecycle management, common data environments, BIM/VDC platforms, parametric design, digital fabrication, ERP/MRP integration, or design automation.
Lean, Six Sigma, systems engineering, value engineering, project management, or product-management credentials.
Existing relationships within Loenbro’s target end markets and partner ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute an engineering and productization roadmap aligned with the Fabrication & Manufacturing strategic plan, growth priorities, capabilities, and target markets.
Identify recurring customer needs and project scopes suitable for standardization, modularization, cataloging, and repeatable production; prioritize product-development investments and manage a stage-gate portfolio from opportunity through lifecycle management.
Develop strategic relationships with engineering and packaging firms, developers, owners, hyperscalers, general contractors, EPCs, OEMs, technology providers, and other partners.
Lead technical engagement in design-assist, early contractor involvement, basis-of-design development, constructability workshops, and product-definition sessions; establish partnership models covering responsibilities, intellectual property, design ownership, licensing, confidentiality, liability, and continuous improvement.
Represent Loenbro’s technical and productization capabilities in customer presentations, industry forums, conferences, and strategic partner meetings, translating input into actionable product requirements.
Lead development of integrated modular systems and repeatable fabricated solutions across applicable mechanical, piping, structural, electrical, controls, equipment, and other disciplines.
Define module boundaries, battery limits, interfaces, connection strategies, transportation envelopes, lifting concepts, installation sequencing, commissioning approaches, and turnover requirements.
Coordinate multidisciplinary design reviews and resolve interface risks before procurement and manufacturing release, considering total installed cost and lifecycle value.
Develop engineering and work-allocation strategies for hub-and-spoke manufacturing; work with Operations and project leadership to map facility capabilities, capacity, labor, equipment, certifications, geography, logistics, and cost to product work breakdown structures.
Design products with manufacturing breakdown structures, standardized interfaces, controlled tolerances, kitting requirements, quality hold points, and assembly instructions; recommend make/buy and facility-allocation decisions and establish handoff, packaging, shipping, and traceability requirements.
Plan, lead, and coordinate internal and external engineering resources, including discipline engineers, designers, BIM/VDC personnel, consultants, and specialty partners.
Establish design criteria, engineering execution plans, deliverable registers, schedules, budgets, reviews, approval workflows, and responsibility matrices; ensure compliance with applicable codes, standards, contract requirements, customer specifications, and Loenbro quality systems.
Manage outsourced engineering scope, schedule, cost, performance, and quality, including appropriate professional review, stamping, and jurisdictional compliance through qualified engineering entities.
Embed Design for Manufacturing and Assembly principles to simplify fabrication, reduce part count and labor, improve repeatability, enable automation, and minimize field work; standardize materials, components, connections, dimensions, equipment selections, controls interfaces, and processes where beneficial.
Partner with the Welding & Process Improvement Manager, Quality, Supply Chain, shop leadership, and craft subject-matter experts to align designs with production capabilities and improvement roadmaps.
Facilitate design-to-cost, value-engineering, constructability, and production-readiness reviews, using production and field feedback to improve standard designs.
Plan and lead prototypes, mockups, pilot builds, first-article production, factory acceptance testing, and product validation; define measurable acceptance criteria for performance, quality, safety, manufacturability, cost, cycle time, installation, commissioning, and repeatability.
Document lessons learned, resolve design and process issues, and complete production-readiness reviews; establish work instructions, inspection and test plans, tooling requirements, training materials, and quality records with Operations and Quality.
Establish product data management, document control, naming, revision, release, configuration, and change-control standards; maintain approved product baselines, option matrices, bills of material, design libraries, standard details, calculations, models, and manufacturing documentation.
Control project customization by requiring technical and commercial review and approval of deviations; work with Legal and leadership to protect, license, and appropriately use intellectual property and manage obsolescence, supplier changes, and end-of-life decisions.
Partner with Business Development on customer demand, the product roadmap, technical selling, strategic pursuits, and account development; collaborate with Estimating, Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations on costs, labor assumptions, pricing, capital, capacity, and business cases.
Coordinate transition of awarded products and projects to the Manager of Projects and manufacturing operations with complete engineering, procurement, quality, schedule, and risk information.
Monitor actual cost, labor, schedule, quality, and commercial performance against business cases and support decisions to invest, scale, redesign, or retire products.
Develop solutions for targeted end markets, monitor customer capital programs, technology roadmaps, standards, procurement strategies, codes, and competitive offerings, and identify transferable platforms and common design elements.
Recommend capability, certification, technology, talent, equipment, and partnership investments needed for priority markets.
Lead, coach, and develop assigned engineers, designers, product-development personnel, and matrixed technical teams; establish engineering processes, templates, reviews, metrics, decision rights, and governance across the manufacturing network.
Build a culture of technical rigor, customer focus, commercial awareness, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement; share lessons learned and support strategic planning, capital planning, and resource forecasting.
Travel regularly to customer, partner, project, supplier, and Loenbro manufacturing locations; attend conferences, customer meetings, and technical forums as needed.
Comply with applicable safety regulations, PPE requirements, and Loenbro EH&S policies.