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September 16, 2026
Design Engineering Manager - East Region
Senior
142,400 - 213,600 USD/yr
Richmond, VA
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Quick Facts
Design Engineering Manager role focused on leading design engineering teams across tender to delivery.
Description
Lead technical teams of design engineers and technical leads through the full project lifecycle, from tendering to delivery, ensuring technical excellence across digital, electrical, mechanical, and multi-system integration domains. Oversee technical solutions end-to-end to meet cost, time, and quality standards, while capturing customer needs, defining optimal solutions, and managing technical risks. Drive operational excellence, performance, and customer satisfaction through collaboration and team development.
Responsibilities
- Lead design engineering teams and technical leads through tendering and project execution phases
- Oversee technical solutions from inception to closure, ensuring delivery meets cost, time, and quality standards
- Capture customer needs, define optimal solutions, and identify technical risks throughout the project lifecycle
- Drive operational excellence, performance, and customer satisfaction while fostering team collaboration and growth
Requirements
- Advanced communication skills to articulate technical strategies and project updates to stakeholders at all levels
- Advanced people management skills to direct team resources and develop engineering talent
- Advanced risk assessment skills to identify technical risks early and implement mitigation strategies
- Intermediate change management skills to guide process improvements and organizational transitions
- Intermediate coaching skills to build capabilities within technical teams
- Intermediate knowledge management skills to enable knowledge sharing and alignment across engineering disciplines
- Intermediate product application skills to apply technical solutions meeting customer requirements and specifications
- Intermediate resource management skills to allocate team capacity across multiple project demands
- Strong independent judgment for complex, non-routine problems with creative solutions
- Ability to set work direction for teams aligned with strategic objectives and priorities
- Initiative improving results through reduced cost or improved efficiency
- Comfort making decisions with moderate to large impact on costs, objectives, and overall process
Benefits
- Lead high-impact projects that directly influence customer satisfaction and business success
- Develop and mentor engineering teams across multiple technical disciplines
- Shape technical strategy while driving operational excellence and profitability
- Collaborative culture valuing innovation, continuous improvement, and professional growth
- Total Rewards including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks, flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, well-being programs, 12 holidays, and paid time off
- Competitive pay and incentives, company share ownership, and 401(k) with match; development support and learning platforms
- Community support through volunteer leave and foundation programs
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