Design to Order Engineering Manager

About the role

Join a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation. Our commitment to sustainability is not just how we do business—it is our business. Are you ready to tackle the world's challenges and make a difference? We invite you to be part of our mission.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers supporting design-to-order HVAC products and customer-specific solutions.
• Translate external technical requirements from customers, suppliers, design consultants, channel partners, and other third-party sources into actionable engineering specifications and internal work plans.
• Oversee engineering execution for custom and configured HVAC products, ensuring alignment with performance, manufacturability, cost, quality, and delivery objectives.
• Drive disciplined engineering processes related to documentation, design reviews, change management, and release readiness.
• Partner cross-functionally with Manufacturing, Product Management, Quality, Supply Chain, Sales, and Operations to support successful project execution and product delivery.
• Ensure custom product designs are feasible to manufacture, service, support, and sustain in production environments.
• Manage multiple concurrent priorities, schedules, and technical issues in a fast-paced, high-variation product environment.
• Support issue resolution and design changes resulting from customer requests, field needs, supplier constraints, and evolving project requirements.
• Promote strong engineering rigor in requirement definition, design validation, risk identification, and problem-solving.
• Improve team effectiveness through talent development, performance management, workload prioritization, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Ensure engineering outputs meet applicable quality expectations, industry standards, regulatory requirements, and internal design practices.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and customer-focused team culture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of engineering experience in HVAC, thermal systems, refrigeration, custom equipment, or similar engineered product environments.
• 2+ years of leadership experience as a supervisor, team lead, project lead, or people manager in an engineering setting.
• Demonstrated experience supporting custom, configured, or design-to-order product development and execution.
• Experience translating external technical requirements into internal engineering actions, deliverables, and documentation.
• Strong technical knowledge of HVAC systems and components, including system integration, performance considerations, and application-specific design factors.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in manufacturing or product-based environments.
• Familiarity with engineering documentation, design control, engineering change processes, and product release practices.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholder groups.
• Proven organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Annual Base Salary Range: $110,900.00 - $157,500.00
• Compensation Type: Salary
• Incentive Eligible: Yes
• Sales Commission Eligible: No

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Holistic wellness programs with generous incentives
• Family building benefits including fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance
• 401K match up to 6%, plus an additional 2% core contribution = up to 8% company contribution
• Paid time off including 15 vacation days, 9 paid holidays, 3 floating holidays, sick leave, and additional options to support volunteer and parental leave
• Educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support

Pay

$110,900.00 - $157,500.00 annually

Schedule

Mondays to Thursdays, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.