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 Do

Team 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 inputs

NPD, Product Upgrades & VAVE

• Own 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