Design Release Engineer, Modular R&D

About the Role

Own the release process from engineering to production: drawings, BOMs, and specs complete, approved, and released to manufacturing at the right revision, every time.

Key Responsibilities

• Run configuration and change management: administer ECOs and ECNs, control revision history, and disposition changes across in-flight units, inventory, and supplier orders with serialized modules at different build states.
• Keep BOM integrity across systems: engineering and manufacturing BOMs accurate, the PLM system of record syncing cleanly to ERP and MES, and discrepancies between as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained resolved rather than logged.
• Gate release readiness: drawing checks, tolerance and spec completeness, long-lead procurement flags, and DFM feedback from the fab floor confirmed incorporated before anything releases.
• Drive release communication across design, supply chain, quality, and production: publish release schedules and change impacts so procurement and the shop floor never build to stale revisions.

What We're Looking For

• You've owned release or configuration management for manufactured hardware: modules, vehicles, machinery, or similar serialized products.
• You've administered ECOs across live production and know how to disposition a change across units already in build, sitting in inventory, and already shipped, including deciding effectivity and living with the consequences.
• Your BOMs reconcile: as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained stay in sync because you keep them that way, not because nobody has checked.
• You catch immature releases before the floor does: incomplete drawings, missing tolerances, and unspecified requirements don't get past you.
• You've untangled an as-designed vs. as-built mess at a company scaling faster than its release discipline, and you know exactly what breaks when that discipline is missing.
• You work across disciplines instead of throwing problems over walls: design, supply chain, quality, and production all trust your revision state because you keep them informed before it matters.

Bonus Qualifications

• Hands-on with PLM platforms (Arena, Teamcenter, Windchill), ERP and MES integration (NetSuite, SAP, or similar), drawing standards (ASME Y14.5), or a manufacturing or quality engineering background.

Pay

$164K - $206K