Engineering Manager, Mechanical Engineering Delivery

As the Engineering Manager, Mechanical Engineering Delivery, you’ll lead a customer-aligned team of Mechanical Engineers (MEs) and Project Engineers (PEs), guiding engineering execution from project handoff through closeout. You’ll operate at the intersection of people leadership, customer alignment, and delivery excellence, ensuring teams are clear, supported, and positioned for success.

Your team is responsible for delivering high-quality engineering solutions that meet customer requirements on time and on budget. Project Engineers serve as the primary connection between engineering, project management, purchasing, and the customer, owning schedules, budgets, and deliverables. Mechanical Engineers bring designs to life through detailed equipment design, reviews, drawings, procurement support, and as-built documentation.

In this role, you’ll create alignment across disciplines, remove obstacles for your team, and proactively plan ahead, all while serving as a key member of the Engineering Delivery Leadership Team. Your leadership directly impacts customer trust, team engagement, and delivery outcomes.

What You’ll Do

Lead and develop people

• Manage and grow a customer-aligned team of Mechanical and Project Engineers
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and proactive planning
• Coach and mentor engineers to strengthen technical excellence and delivery discipline

Drive customer alignment

•  Build a deep understanding of customer standards, expectations, and processes
• Serve as the engineering escalation point for your assigned customer vertical
• Partner closely with Program Engineers to ensure engineering output aligns with customer needs

Own engineering delivery

• Oversee mechanical engineering execution from project handoff through closeout
• Ensure schedules, budgets, and quality commitments are met
• Own engineering resourcing decisions for aligned customer projects
• Support and review pre-contract engineering estimates and schedules

Improve how work gets done

• Monitor progress, identify risks early, and implement mitigation strategies
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering delivery processes and tools
• Track and report performance metrics for engineering execution within your vertical

What Success Looks Like

• Engineers feel supported, clear, and empowered
• Customers experience consistent, reliable delivery
• Engineering work is predictable, scalable, and aligned
• Risks are identified early, before they become issues

We’re Excited About You Because

• You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field
• You bring 7+ years of engineering or project management experience, including 3+ years in a leadership role
• You’ve led customer-specific engineering work on complex projects
• You’re a strong people leader who builds trust and develops teams
• You’re organized, decisive, and comfortable managing competing priorities
• You communicate clearly with engineers, leaders, and customers

This job description is not exhaustive. Other duties may be assigned as needed, and responsibilities may evolve to support the business and employee experience.

About Us:    

Conveyor 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.    

And 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.

More reasons to join our team:    

• We pride ourselves in our family-like culture and casual, but focused, work environment    
• We offer competitive salaries and health benefits    
• Our 401K program includes a 100% match up to 5%    
• Participation in our Discretionary Profit-Sharing Program    
• We offer our employees flexibility and autonomy    
• We do community outreach projects throughout the year    
• We know how to throw company events    
• We work hard, but we also know how to have fun - darts, anyone?

Individuals 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. Accommodation is available to applicants with a disability condition, when applying, testing, or interviewing for a position. Please let us know if you need accommodation.