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You’ll act as a technical and program-level integrator-bridging Engineering Delivery, Program Management, Controls, Applications, and Solutions and Growth teams to ensure alignment from early opportunity through execution and go-live. This role is highly cross-functional and requires strong functional design expertise, commercial awareness, and the ability to proactively identify risks, align stakeholders, and drive clarity across project phases. You will provide engineering oversight across multiple concurrent precontract opportunities and active projects, helping ensure solutions are well-defined, executable, and aligned to DCS standards and customer expectations.\nSound like you? Read on.\nIn this role, you will: \nServe as a technical and program partner across projects and opportunities within a vertical ensuring alignment, visibility, and execution readiness across engineering and program teams. Your key accountabilities and responsibilities will include:\nKey Accountabilities\nCustomer and Employee Experience: Accountable for leading by example in delivering exceptional employee and customer experiences, and modeling DCS values and cultural behaviors.\nProgram Alignment & Visibility: Accountable for maintaining visibility across all active and upcoming projects, ensuring alignment between engineering, program management, and customer expectations.\nEngineering Quality & Design Integrity: Accountable for ensuring functional designs are robust, aligned to best practices, and executable across engineering and controls.\nPre-Execution Planning & Estimation Accuracy: Accountable for supporting accurate engineering estimates including schedules, resource skillset, and scope definitions during proposal and front-end phases.\nRisk Identification & Mitigation: Accountable for proactively identifying design, schedule, and vendor risks and ensuring they are communicated and addressed early.\nCross-Functional Coordination: Accountable for enabling effective collaboration between Mechanical Engineering, Project Engineering, Controls, PMs, and external partners.\nKey Responsibilities\nMaintain active participation in heartbeat meetings to track project updates, risks, and resourcing needs.\nCoordinate across PMs, Controls, and Engineering teams to align priorities for upcoming and active projects.\nParticipate in coordination meetings and forecast reviews to ensure alignment on workload and resource planning.\nOwn the program lessons-learned process, identifying recurring engineering, vendor, and execution risks and driving improvements that strengthen future project performance.\nIdentify future resource constraints and communicate staffing, skill, and capacity risks to leadership.\nEvaluate and support increase of capability and capacity within engineering teams to support growth within customer profile projections.\nRegularly review program dashboards, trackers, and reporting tools that provide visibility into project status, engineering demand, risks, customer requirements, and execution readiness.\nMentor engineers and project team members on customer standards, program expectations, and lessons learned.\nShare customer, program, and engineering knowledge across project teams to improve consistency and execution quality.\nFacilitate feedback and growth of program team including program manager, sales, and program engineers.\nAdvise sales, applications, and program management on pursuit strategy, solution fit, execution risk, and customer priorities based on program experience and historical performance.\nReview risk and consult leadership on new expansions within customer portfolio.\nAttend and advise system design reviews across projects, providing guidance on functional design and execution best practices.\nParticipate in internal and customer design reviews and firm engineering calls to ensure alignment on solution intent and standards.\nSupport development of functional design breakouts for firm engineering phases.\nProvide input and pushback where needed to maintain design integrity and adherence to DCS standards.\nDevelop expert-level understanding of customer specifications and requirements.\nSupport creation of customer specifications when not provided.\nIncrease engagement and visibility with assigned vertical customers to ensure alignment and confidence in solutions.\nMaintain visibility and communicate changes to customer standards, specifications, engineering practices, and program requirements to ensure consistent execution across all projects within the portfolio.\nOwn engineering hour estimation for opportunities, including ME, PE, Product Design, and site-related costs.\nSupport ROM pricing evaluations and provide validation of labor and material assumptions.\nReview proposals and contribute to functional scope definition and mechanical clarifications.\nParticipate in precontract review meetings, including Go/No-Go (GNG), Vendor Bid Reviews (VBR), and Financial Reviews (FR), with focus on clarifying costs and mitigating risks while supporting the capture strategy from a technical perspective.\nReview and consult on project schedules to validate durations for FE, execution, procurement, and controls integration.\nSupport go/no-go evaluations by assessing RFPs, sales inputs, and associated risks.\nEnsure readiness for execution by aligning scope, schedule, and engineering deliverables.\nParticipate in design reviews and customer FE calls throughout the project lifecycle.\nMaintain a forward-looking view of engineering demand, testing support, travel requirements, and go-live activities across the program portfolio.\nSupport testing plans, site activities, and go-live execution as needed.\nProvide on-site or remote support during critical execution phases.\nServe as the Engineering point of escalation and support for all projects within the program portfolio.\nEvaluate proposed vendors and provide input on technical fit and execution risk of bidding and backlog projects.\nSupport vendor training and knowledge sharing across the engineering team.\nPartner with Supplier Development to onboard and assess vendors and suppliers based on project needs and past performance.\nWe’re Excited About You Because: \nYou have a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.\nYou have 5+ years in material handling system design and delivery engineering.\nYou have strong engineering and design expertise and understand how systems translate from concept to execution.\nYou are comfortable operating across multiple projects and priorities, balancing detail with big-picture program alignment.\nYou excel in cross-functional communication and can influence without direct authority.\nYou have strong commercial awareness, including estimating, proposal support, and cost evaluation.\nYou are proactive in identifying risks and driving alignment before issues impact execution.\nYou enjoy work that includes travel expectations between 30-40% of your typical year.\nYou are highly organized and capable of tracking multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and deliverables simultaneously.\nThis job description is not exhaustive. Other duties may be assigned as needed, and responsibilities may evolve to support the business and employee experience.\nAbout Us: \nConveyor may be in our name, but it’s only part of what we do. DCS was founded in 1982 and has grown to serve major clients in multiple industries by providing material handling, full-scale warehouse operations and conveyor design solutions that are custom crafted for their need. We don’t sell ready-made systems - we build relationships that empower us to craft custom solutions together. It’s the teamwork approach, sharing ideas and building upon them, that produces the best results. \nAnd DCS is committed to creating an extraordinary employment experience for our team. We work like crazy to hire and develop great people, build relationships, and ensure that the programs and services we offer our team are among the best in the business- from a killer snack wall and casual work environment to flexible PTO and opportunities to give back within the community.\nMore reasons to join our team: \nWe pride ourselves in our family-like culture and casual, but focused, work environment \nWe offer competitive salaries and health benefits \nOur 401K program includes a 100% match up to 5% \nParticipation in our Discretionary Profit-Sharing Program \nWe offer our employees flexibility and autonomy \nWe do community outreach projects throughout the year \nWe know how to throw company events \nIndividuals seeking employment at Designed Conveyor Systems are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. 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