Engineering & Productization Manager – Fabrication & Manufacturing

Loenbro•Dallas, TX

18h

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 shift from project-specific fabrication toward a scalable manufacturing platform and leads technical development and productization of integrated modular solutions for targeted end markets. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, the Manager serves as the technical integrator for Loenbro’s hub-and-spoke manufacturing model, developing products for 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 leads product strategy and portfolio development; strategic partner engagement; multidisciplinary modular-solution development; engineering management and design governance; design for manufacturing and assembly; prototyping, validation, and production readiness; configuration, intellectual-property, and lifecycle management; commercialization; and cross-functional execution. It coordinates internal and external engineering resources and works with Business Development, Estimating, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, Projects, Quality, and Operations to move products from concept through business case, design, prototype, validation, standard release, and continuous improvement. The Manager leads and develops assigned engineers, designers, product-development personnel, and matrixed technical teams. The role requires regular travel to customer, partner, project, supplier, and Loenbro manufacturing locations, with travel estimated at approximately 30–50% based on business needs. Work combines office and remote work with frequent visits to manufacturing facilities, shop floors, and industrial job sites, where exposure to typical fabrication and manufacturing environmental factors may occur.

Requirements

10 or more 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.
Compliance with applicable safety regulations, personal protective equipment 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 within 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 Loenbro’s manufacturing strategy, growth priorities, capabilities, and target markets.
Identify recurring customer needs and prioritize product-development investments based on demand, volume, margin, capacity, feasibility, capital requirements, and time to market.
Manage a stage-gate product portfolio from opportunity and concept through business case, engineering, prototype, validation, commercialization, standard release, and lifecycle management.
Build 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, exclusivity, confidentiality, engineering liability, and continuous improvement.
Represent Loenbro’s technical and productization capabilities in customer presentations, industry forums, conferences, and strategic partner meetings.
Lead development of integrated modular systems combining applicable mechanical, piping, structural, electrical, controls, equipment, insulation, testing, and other disciplines.
Define module boundaries, 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.
Develop engineering and work-allocation strategies for final integration and testing at hubs and component or subassembly work at capable spoke facilities.
Partner 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 standardized interfaces, controlled tolerances, kitting requirements, quality hold points, and assembly instructions for multi-facility execution.
Recommend make-or-buy and hub-and-spoke allocation decisions, and establish handoff, packaging, shipping, and traceability requirements.
Plan, lead, and coordinate internal and external engineering resources, including 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 designs comply with applicable codes, standards, contractual requirements, professional-practice obligations, customer specifications, and Loenbro quality systems.
Manage outsourced engineering scope, schedule, cost, quality, professional review, stamping, and jurisdictional compliance through qualified engineering entities.
Embed DfMA principles to simplify fabrication, reduce part count and labor, improve repeatability, enable automation, and minimize field work.
Standardize materials, components, connections, joint configurations, dimensional schemes, equipment selections, controls interfaces, and fabrication processes where beneficial.
Partner with the Welding & Process Improvement Manager, Quality, Supply Chain, shop leadership, and craft experts to align designs with production capabilities and improvement plans.
Conduct design-to-cost, value-engineering, constructability, and production-readiness reviews, incorporating production and field feedback into 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 conduct formal production-readiness reviews before scalable release.
Establish controlled 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 and ensure deviations are technically reviewed, commercially understood, approved, and captured for future learning.
Work with Legal and leadership to identify, protect, license, and appropriately use company and partner intellectual property; manage obsolescence, supplier changes, and end-of-life decisions.
Partner with Business Development on customer demand, technical selling, strategic pursuits, and account development.
Work with Estimating, Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations to develop target costs, labor assumptions, pricing inputs, capital requirements, production capacity, and business cases.
Coordinate transition of awarded products and projects to the Manager of Projects and manufacturing operations with engineering, procurement, quality, schedule, and risk information.
Monitor actual cost, labor, schedule, quality, and commercial performance against product business cases and support portfolio investment, scale-up, redesign, or retirement decisions.
Develop solutions for targeted markets, including data centers, power generation, semiconductor, advanced manufacturing, water/wastewater, mining and metals, pharmaceutical/life sciences, food and beverage, and energy.
Monitor customer capital programs, technology roadmaps, engineering standards, procurement strategies, code developments, and competitive solutions in target markets.
Identify transferable platforms and common design elements to leverage engineering investment across customers, geographies, and adjacent markets.
Recommend capability, certification, technology, talent, equipment, and partnership investments for priority markets.
Lead, coach, and develop assigned engineers, designers, product-development personnel, and matrixed technical teams.
Establish standard engineering and product-development processes, templates, design reviews, metrics, decision rights, and governance across the manufacturing network.
Promote technical rigor, curiosity, customer focus, commercial awareness, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Capture and share lessons learned and support strategic planning, capital planning, and resource forecasting as requested.
Travel regularly to customer, partner, project, supplier, and Loenbro manufacturing locations.