Engineering Manager - Design Engineering

Position: Engineering Manager – Design Engineering

Location: Columbia, Maryland

Duration: Perm Placement

Salary- $130K-$160K - Yearly + Discretionary Bonus

Job Overview:

What You'll Do

Project & Design Execution

• Manage the day-to-day execution of design engineering work across multiple concurrent projects.
• Translate approved customer requirements, specifications, layouts, and design criteria into complete engineering deliverables.
• Develop and maintain detailed engineering schedules aligned with customer approvals, procurement requirements, and manufacturing dates.
• Ensure design packages, models, customer submittals, fabrication drawings, and engineering BOMs are completed accurately and on time.
• Monitor scheduled versus actual completion dates and implement recovery plans when deliverables fall behind.
• Identify technical, resource, and schedule risks early and escalate them with clear recommendations.
• Lead technical problem-solving during design, procurement, fabrication, assembly, and installation.
• Ensure engineering changes are properly evaluated, documented, approved, and communicated to affected stakeholders.

Team Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop design engineers, designers, and engineering leads.
• Assign work based on project priority, technical complexity, capacity, and individual capability.
• Establish clear ownership, deadlines, and expectations for every engineering deliverable.
• Conduct regular workload, project-status, and individual performance reviews.
• Provide timely feedback and address performance, responsiveness, quality, or accountability concerns.
• Identify skills gaps and develop appropriate training and development plans.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, succession planning, and organizational development for the design engineering function.
• Build a culture of urgency, technical rigor, collaboration, and ownership.

Design Quality & Governance

• Establish and enforce consistent design practices, review procedures, checklists, and release controls.
• Ensure designs comply with customer requirements, internal engineering standards, applicable codes, and manufacturing capabilities.
• Confirm that structural connections and load-bearing design decisions are reviewed and approved by Structural Engineering before release.
• Ensure customer comments and design changes are fully incorporated and closed before final approval.
• Maintain appropriate peer-review and approval requirements based on project risk and complexity.
• Reduce design errors, omissions, rework, and late-stage changes through effective front-end planning and review.
• Support the standardization of designs, components, assemblies, and engineering documentation while accommodating project-specific requirements.

Engineering BOM & Release Management

• Ensure engineering BOMs are complete, accurate, and aligned with approved drawings and models.
• Confirm that all manufactured parts, purchased components, hardware, spares, and required quantities are captured before release.
• Ensure part-number requests and supporting engineering information are submitted promptly and accurately.
• Coordinate with Engineering Services, Data Entry, Costing, Procurement, and plant teams to support timely BOM approval and ERP release.
• Ensure revisions to drawings, BOMs, and part numbers are properly controlled and synchronized.
• Support phased or preliminary releases where appropriate to protect procurement and manufacturing schedules without compromising technical control.
• Investigate BOM discrepancies and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

Cross-Functional & Customer Coordination

• Partner with Project Management to confirm project priorities, milestones, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Coordinate with Sales Engineering to ensure estimates, proposals, and customer scope are accurately transferred into execution.
• Work with Structural Engineering to obtain required calculations, connection reviews, and technical approvals.
• Engage Procurement early on long-lead, custom, or technically critical components.
• Partner with Manufacturing and plant-based DFM engineers to ensure designs are safe, practical, efficient, and ready for production.
• Participate in customer design-review meetings and provide clear technical updates, decisions, risks, and required actions.
• Manage technical escalations constructively and drive timely resolution across functional boundaries.

Continuous Improvement

• Track engineering performance, including schedule adherence, first-pass approval, drawing and BOM accuracy, rework, engineering changes, and resource utilization.
• Identify recurring design or process failures and lead root-cause and corrective-action activities.
• Improve engineering workflows, design tools, templates, automation, and documentation standards.
• Capture lessons learned and ensure they are incorporated into future projects and standard designs.
• Support the Director of Design Engineering in capacity planning, resource forecasting, and execution of the department's strategic priorities.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Typically 7–10 years of progressive engineering experience in a manufacturing, fabricated-products, construction-products, or engineered-to-order environment.
• Minimum of 3 years of engineering leadership or people-management experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple complex engineering projects simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of design release, configuration control, engineering BOMs, manufacturing drawings, and change-management processes.
• Experience working with manufacturing, procurement, project management, and customer-facing teams.
• Proficiency with 3D CAD and engineering-document-management systems; experience with Autodesk Inventor, Vault, Revit, AutoCAD, or similar platforms is preferred.
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems and part-number or BOM-release processes is preferred.
• Experience in data-centre infrastructure, modular construction, sheet-metal fabrication, structural systems, containment, or mechanical systems is advantageous.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong technical judgment and problem-solving capability.
• Proven ability to lead teams in a fast-paced, project-driven environment.
• Excellent planning, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to engineering quality.
• Effective written, verbal, and customer-facing communication skills.
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive accountability.
• Practical understanding of Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA).
• Ability to balance process improvement with project execution and delivery.

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Pay Range:$130K-$160K - Yearly + Discretionary Bonus

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