Manager, Applications Engineering

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Every day in 25 countries, we (9,000 people) create the sustainable solutions the world needs by inventing the technologies of tomorrow across the entire spectrum of industry: from metallurgy to advanced logistics, from cement plants to the tech industry, from the IoT to aerospace.
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Legal Entity:
Fives Intralogistics Corp.

Country:
United States

State:
Kentucky

Job Family:
Sales Engineering and Proposals

Job Type: Permanent position

Work Location:

Remote

Compensation:

The Manager owns engineering capacity and the capability to do the work.

This seat answers for whether the engineering function can carry the pipeline: headcount against it, the cost of running the function, hiring, and the promotion decisions that turn engineers into reviewers.

It also owns the capability plan: which skills the function needs, and the training and tool investment behind them. The estimating and design method itself stays with Senior and Principal Engineer. This seat funds and staffs the standard; it does not write it.

It shares ownership of the solution methodology and the technology roadmap with the Manager, Solutions Engineering: which technology classes and third‑party partners the department can offer, and the analysis practice behind the concepts. The two seats hold it together, so what we can design and what we can price stay the same list.

Innovation – We create a culture of relentless improvement of solutions and processes to make every day better.

Integrity – We are open, honest, and committed to giving the straight story every time.

Service – We serve our clients, families, communities, and most importantly our people who are empowered and safe in making decisions and taking actions that dare to make us better.

Ownership – We take full, personal, individual responsibility for our actions and our work.

• Own the capacity plan for the function: what the pipeline requires, what can be staffed, and the gap between them.
• Own the function budget and its share of the cost of pursuit, and report both against plan.
• Own hiring for the function: open the reqs, set the bands, and make the selection.
• Make the promotion decision at the level gate, on the method review the Principal Engineer runs.
• Own the engineering capability plan: the skills the function needs, the training and tool investment behind it. The estimating and design method itself stays with Senior and Principal Engineer.
• Own the solution methodology and the technology roadmap: which technology classes and third‑party partners the department can offer, and the analysis practice behind the concepts. Technical authority over a given concept stays with Principal Engineer.

• Department strategy, organisation and toolchain investment

• Line management, performance and pay

Partner

They bring

You keep

Manager, Solutions Engineering The design and analysis side of the methodology and the roadmap, held jointly with this seat The estimating side of the same

Principal Engineer The method review and the technical standard The promotion decision that follows it, and the investment behind the standard

Supervisor, Applications Engineering Day‑to‑day management of the engineers Headcount, bands and the capability plan

Offering Manager What the queue needs, week to week How much engineering capacity exists

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