Project Engineer, Systems Engineer

Department:
Engineering

Reports To:

Lead Development Engineer
Job Type: Full-Time / On-Site

Location:

Belgrade, Montana

X-Series USA designs, develops, and supports advanced industrial machinery including fiber laser cutting systems, robotic welding automation, structural steel processing equipment, and custom manufacturing solutions. From our headquarters in Belgrade, Montana, we focus on research, development, machine productization, applications engineering, and advanced manufacturing technologies to help North American manufacturers improve productivity, quality, and competitiveness.

We are seeking a highly organized and execution-focused Project Engineer to serve as the primary coordination point between OEM factory development teams and the X-Series Engineering Department. The initial focus is to support Engineering in establishing the X-Series standard for technical documentation and engineering resources across all current machine platforms. This includes coordinating acquisition, organization, validation, and maintenance of OEM technical information required for developing X-Series-owned machine layouts, site requirement documents, electrical requirement documents, engineering standards, technical documentation packages, configuration records, manuals, implementation resources, service documentation, training materials, and other machine-specific support resources.

This role does not involve product strategy, product management, engineering management, or design authority; technical direction, engineering priorities, design standards, and final engineering decisions remain with the CTO and Lead Development Engineer.

• Execute assigned machine development projects under the direction of the Lead Development Engineer.
• Translate engineering directives into structured project plans with measurable deliverables and timelines.
• Maintain project schedules, engineering priorities, milestone tracking, and development status reporting.
• Identify and communicate project risks, delays, resource constraints, and technical roadblocks.
• Serve as a primary engineering point of contact for project management, sales, service, and customer-facing stakeholders.
• Support technical communication and issue resolution between Engineering, OEM partners, and customer-facing teams.
• Ensure assigned engineering tasks are completed according to scope, timeline, quality expectations, and project objectives.

• Act as a primary coordination point between OEM factory product managers and the domestic engineering team.
• Coordinate acquisition, organization, validation, and maintenance of OEM resources including mechanical drawings, CAD models, BOMs, electrical schematics, pneumatic and hydraulic diagrams, software backups, OEM specifications, technical manuals, configuration records, and testing and validation data.
• Work with OEM teams to resolve documentation gaps, discrepancies, and incomplete technical data packages.

• Support development and refinement of existing machine platforms requiring additional engineering attention.
• Assist with execution of machine variants, custom configurations, and customer-specific requirements.
• Track design changes, configuration updates, and development status throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support engineering validation, testing, and readiness reviews.

• Coordinate development of standardized engineering resources for all machine platforms.
• Support Development Engineers in creating and maintaining X-Series machine standards, technical documentation packages, configuration databases, engineering reference libraries, service resources, installation resources, training materials, and product development records.
• Track completion status of resource-development initiatives across machine platforms.

• Coordinate with Sales, Service, Applications Engineering, Logistics, Manufacturing, and R&D Operations as required.
• Maintain accurate project status reports, engineering…