Design Engineering Manager

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Amanda Preston. Salary: $130,000 - $140,000 per year. Easy Apply by using the Easy Apply button.

Our client is a highly respected manufacturer specializing in engineered metal products for demanding industrial applications. The organization is known for technical precision, quality, safety, and manufacturing excellence. Their products require strong design discipline, welding knowledge, regulatory awareness, and close collaboration between engineering, production, quality, sales, and customers.

This is a highly visible engineering leadership opportunity for someone who wants to have a direct impact on product design, manufacturability, quality, cost, and innovation. The Design Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers and technical staff while owning design processes from concept through production.

The Design Engineering Manager is responsible for leading overall product design processes, objectives, and deliverables, including design requirements, workflows, planning, implementation, scheduling, regulatory oversight, and documentation for new and existing products. The role supports product design related to automation, manufacturing processes, and production readiness.

This person will work closely with manufacturing, quality, sales, marketing, finance, suppliers, vendors, customers, and senior leadership to ensure products meet customer requirements, regulatory standards, quality expectations, manufacturability needs, and cost targets. The role requires strong leadership, project management, mechanical design expertise, and welding engineering knowledge.

• Engineering Leadership & Team Management:
  Provide leadership and direction for existing and emerging product and application technologies. Manage, coach, and develop a team of engineers and technical staff. Provide technical leadership to the design team, help solve complex engineering challenges, and guide key design decisions. Supervise and review the work of direct reports while supporting training, development, accountability, and performance. Meet regularly with engineering staff to review priorities, project status, technical issues, timelines, and resource needs.
  
  Lead technical projects while managing multiple priorities, deadlines, and stakeholder expectations.
• Product Development & Design Ownership:
  Lead the product development process from concept through production, including brainstorming, conceptualization, design, prototyping, testing, validation, and finalization. Own product design development and engineering schedules while balancing budget, resource constraints, product features, manufacturability, and product cost. Ensure product requirements are documented and understood by all stakeholders early in the development process. Ensure final products are fully and accurately documented, including drawings, specifications, technical reports, and related design records.
  
  Manage full product lifecycle from initial design through updates, revisions, enhancements, and obsolescence management. Generate new concepts and innovative ideas in product designs and manufacturing processes to create competitive advantage.
• Welding, Fabrication & Manufacturing Design:
  Apply strong welding engineering knowledge to support the design of sheet metal products, weldments, large assemblies, pressure vessels, and non‑code vessels. Ensure designs are practical, manufacturable, cost‑effective, and aligned with production capabilities. Use CAD software to create and support drawings for welding projects, components, assemblies, and manufacturing requirements. Support proposed manufacturing designs, product/process improvements, and production ramp‑up activity. Partner with manufacturing teams to ensure designs can be built efficiently, consistently, safely, and at the required quality level.
  
  Drive design decisions that support quality, cost effectiveness, production flow, and long‑term manufacturability.
• BOM, ERP & Production Support:
  Manage on‑time delivery of designs, drawings, and instructions to support BOM creation, item release, and production schedule needs. Work…