Senior Engineering Manager

Senior Engineering Manager — CM Truck (Configure-to-Order)
About the Role We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our CM Truck configure-to-order (CTO) engineering team. This role owns day-to-day leadership across new product development (NPD), value-analysis/value-engineering (VAVE), product upgrades, custom orders, and quoting for our truck bed and service body product lines.

This is a highly visible leadership role central to our engineering reorganization — you'll help operationalize a company-wide 2027 operating model built around standardization, digitization, and a fully connected digital thread (CPQ PLM ERP CAD).What You'll DoTeam Leadership & Continuity Lead the CM/CTO engineering team day-to-day, directly developing two team leads: one focused on custom orders & quoting, one on NPD & product upgrades

Build a resilient team with documented processes, cross-trained backups, and no single points of failure

Own coaching, assignments, and performance management; recommend promotions and role definitions

Custom Orders & Quoting Drive custom-order throughput and quote turnaround for CM opportunities

Ensure quoting expertise is documented, repeatable, and not dependent on any one person

Provide accurate, competitive cost-estimating and quoting inputsNPD, Product Upgrades & VAVEOwn delivery of NPD programs and product upgrades across truck-bed product lines

Embed value-analysis/value-engineering (VAVE) as an ongoing capability — part-count reduction, cost-down, reuse-first design

Drive modular architecture and promote recurring solutions into the standard catalog

Technical Leadership Serve as the technical lead for CM product decisions within enterprise standards

Chair design reviews covering safety, regulatory compliance, DFM/DFA, and sourced-design

Maintain engineering-change (ECN) discipline and product validation rigor

Process & Systems Implement CM processes on the company's shared digital-thread architecture

Establish PLM as the CM source of truth

Maintain part-numbering, BOM structure, revision control, and configurator rules

Financial & Cross-Functional Own CM engineering cost performance and spend within an approved budget envelope

Recommend headcount, tooling, and contractor needs

Partner with Operations, Commercial/Sales, and IT to align CM with enterprise standards

Translate Voice-of-Customer input into CM design requirements

What You Bring Required Bachelor 's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)
Engineering leadership/supervisory experience in configure-to-order and/or NPD manufacturing environments — truck equipment, upfitting, or comparable vocational products strongly preferred

Demonstrated experience leading NPD programs, VAVE initiatives, product upgrades, and custom quoting from concept through production

Strong grounding in DFM/DFA, design reviews, BOM/part-numbering, and ECN/change management

Working knowledge of digital-thread systems (CPQ, PLM, ERP, CAD) and modular/standardization strategy

Preferred

Familiarity with applicable regulatory frameworks (e.g., FMVSS) and multi-stage manufacturing

Experience building teams and processes that eliminate single points of failure

Strong systems-thinking with the ability to balance standardization with CTO configurability and NPD speed

What Success Looks Like in Year OneCM custom orders, quoting, NPD, and upgrade processes are documented with proven backups — no single points of failure

Both direct-report leads are operating effectively with documented methods and cross-trained backupsA CM coverage map is in place and maintainedPLM is established as the CM source of truthNPD stage-gates are delivered on plan, quote turnaround is protected, and measurable progress is made on modular reuse and VAVE