Senior Engineering Manager
CONTRACT MANUFACTURER LLC•Madill, OK
•Onsite
About The Position
We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our CM Truck configure-to-order (CTO) engineering team. This role owns day-to-day leadership across new product development (NPD), value-analysis/value-engineering (VAVE), product upgrades, custom orders, and quoting for our truck bed and service body product lines. This is a highly visible leadership role central to our engineering reorganization — you'll help operationalize a company-wide 2027 operating model built around standardization, digitization, and a fully connected digital thread (CPQ → PLM → ERP → CAD).
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)
- Engineering leadership/supervisory experience in configure-to-order and/or NPD manufacturing environments — truck equipment, upfitting, or comparable vocational products strongly preferred
- Demonstrated experience leading NPD programs, VAVE initiatives, product upgrades, and custom quoting from concept through production
- Strong grounding in DFM/DFA, design reviews, BOM/part-numbering, and ECN/change management
- Working knowledge of digital-thread systems (CPQ, PLM, ERP, CAD) and modular/standardization strategy
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with applicable regulatory frameworks (e.g., FMVSS) and multi-stage manufacturing
- Experience building teams and processes that eliminate single points of failure
- Strong systems-thinking with the ability to balance standardization with CTO configurability and NPD speed
Responsibilities
- Lead the CM/CTO engineering team day-to-day, directly developing two team leads: one focused on custom orders & quoting, one on NPD & product upgrades
- Build a resilient team with documented processes, cross-trained backups, and no single points of failure
- Own coaching, assignments, and performance management; recommend promotions and role definitions
- Drive custom-order throughput and quote turnaround for CM opportunities
- Ensure quoting expertise is documented, repeatable, and not dependent on any one person
- Provide accurate, competitive cost-estimating and quoting inputs
- Own delivery of NPD programs and product upgrades across truck-bed product lines
- Embed value-analysis/value-engineering (VAVE) as an ongoing capability — part-count reduction, cost-down, reuse-first design
- Drive modular architecture and promote recurring solutions into the standard catalog
- Serve as the technical lead for CM product decisions within enterprise standards
- Chair design reviews covering safety, regulatory compliance, DFM/DFA, and sourced-design
- Maintain engineering-change (ECN) discipline and product validation rigor
- Implement CM processes on the company's shared digital-thread architecture
- Establish PLM as the CM source of truth
- Maintain part-numbering, BOM structure, revision control, and configurator rules
- Own CM engineering cost performance and spend within an approved budget envelope
- Recommend headcount, tooling, and contractor needs
- Partner with Operations, Commercial/Sales, and IT to align CM with enterprise standards
- Translate Voice-of-Customer input into CM design requirements
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
