Engineering Manager

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach and develop the engineering team, including workload planning, performance expectations, technical development and design review.
• Build team capability beyond drafting by developing engineers in structural analysis, member and connection design, engineering judgment and product ownership.
• Establish goals and metrics for quality, throughput, on-time delivery and rework while building bench strength across critical engineering capabilities.
• Maintain strong design-review and quality-control practices and ensure drawings, calculations, Bills of Materials and permitting packages are accurate and ready for release.

• Provide technical direction for Solar's ground-mount and roof-mount racking systems, including array configuration, spans, bracing, member selection, connections and foundations.
• Perform and review structural analysis using RISA or equivalent software, including loading, member capacity, connections, deflection and foundation reactions.
• Ensure designs comply with applicable ASCE 7, AISC, AISI S100, ASTM, IBC, UL and other relevant codes and standards.
• Lead product and component improvements that optimize structural performance, steel usage, part count, manufacturability, installation efficiency and total installed cost.
• Drive engineering improvements from concept through analysis, validation, documentation and release, incorporating feedback from installers, vendors and customers.
• Maintain and improve engineering standards, calculators, load tables, span charts, section libraries and other technical tools.

• Serve as a senior technical partner to Sales, Project Management, Procurement and Operations, supporting feasibility reviews, technical solutions, RFIs and field issues.
• Work directly with customers, AHJs, inspectors, Professional Engineers of Record and third-party engineers to resolve technical questions and support project approvals.
• Partner with manufacturing and fabrication vendors on design for manufacturability, material selection, tolerances, forming, fabrication and coating requirements.
• Evaluate material, sourcing and design alternatives based on structural performance, cost, availability, compliance and durability.
• Develop scalable engineering processes, identify opportunities for automation and use field issues, quality data and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement.

• Bachelor's degree in Structural Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience with demonstrated technical, project, and people leadership.
• Experience leading, mentoring or developing engineers or technical professionals.
• Strong structural engineering fundamentals, including wind and snow loading, member and connection design, deflection criteria and foundation reactions.
• Experience with RISA or comparable structural analysis software and AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks or similar design tools.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical work with team leadership and business considerations such as cost, schedule, risk and customer needs.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain and defend technical decisions across engineering and non-engineering audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to improve products, designs or engineering processes.
• Experience with solar racking, renewable energy, structural steel, cold-formed steel or other engineered-product environment.
• Commercial and/or utility-scale solar experience.
• Product development, value engineering and design-for-manufacturing experience.
• Experience with ground-mount foundations, roll-formed steel, fabrication processes and/or coating systems.
• Engineering automation experience using advanced Excel, VBA, iLogic, parametric modeling or similar tools.
• EIT or PE licensure.