Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager

Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager

As the Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager, you will lead the hardware evolution of LVT’s products into new form factors and market segments. You are responsible for the entire mechanical lifecycle: from helping determine product direction, performing rapid R&D, delivering through development stage gates and supporting sustaining efforts. You will lead a high-performing team of engineers to solve complex thermal, structural, and power challenges in extreme environments.

This role is a critical bridge between visionary product design and operational excellence, ensuring our “scrappy” innovation scales into world-class reliability.

Location:

Headquarters, American Fork, Utah, with some days in Spanish Fork and approximately 5‑10% travel overseas.

• Strategic Leadership: Own the mechanical engineering roadmap, balancing the speed of New Product Introduction with the stability of sustaining engineering.
• Team Mentorship: Lead, hire, and develop a multi‑disciplinary mechanical engineering team, fostering a culture of high accountability and rapid prototyping.
• Design for Excellence (DfX): Oversee the design of camera and sensor products, ensuring they meet strict standards for manufacturability, reliability, cost, and field serviceability.
• Lifecycle Management: Direct the transition of products from prototype to mass production, working closely with Product, Program Management, Supply chain and manufacturing partners.
• Thermal & Structural Integrity: Validate hardware performance through rigorous simulation and physical testing to survive diverse, off‑grid environmental conditions.
• Continuous Improvement: Analyze field failure data to drive iterative design improvements, increasing MTBF for our global fleet.
• Vendor Management: Manage relationships with fabricators and component suppliers to ensure technical specifications and lead times align with LVT’s growth targets.

• Proven Leadership: 10+ years of mechanical engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a formal people‑management or lead role.
• Full‑Lifecycle Expertise: Demonstrated success taking complex hardware products from a “napkin sketch” through high‑volume production.
• Technical Depth: Expert‑level proficiency in 3D CAD (Creo preferred) and a strong grasp of FEA, thermal analysis, and electronics.
• Ruggedized Design
  
  Experience:
  
  Background in designing electric‑mechanical products with connectivity, audio, thermal, optical, and power challenges.
• NPI Expert: Deep understanding of manufacturing processes (sheet metal, injection molding, CNC, etc.) and global supply chain dynamics.
• Analytical Mindset: You make decisions based on data, whether it’s stress‑test results or manufacturing cost‑of‑goods‑sold analysis.
• Communication Style: Ability to translate complex engineering hurdles into clear business risks and opportunities for executive leadership.
• Education: B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering or a related technical field.

We believe you do your best work when your whole life is supported. We invest in our crew’s health, families, and financial futures with a benefits package designed to support you inside and outside the office.

LVT is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. All candidates must pass a drug screening and background check upon employment. Some roles may also require passing a federal background check and fingerprinting. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, and/or to perform essential job functions, please reach out to your recruiter.