Manager, CAD & Design Systems

Define and execute the long-term strategy for CAD, product definition, design integration, release, and configuration management within Mechanical Engineering • Lead and develop the CAD Operations and Product Definition & Integration teams, including hiring, capability development, workload planning, and career growth • Own Mechanical Engineering CAD standards, modeling practices, drawing standards, templates, libraries, assembly architecture, and large-assembly methods • Establish the strategy for SolidWorks and CATIA usage, including scalable methods for full-product and other very large assemblies • Ensure the organization maintains authoritative POR and future-state reference assemblies so engineers are designing against the correct product definition • Drive faster and more reliable design release by improving handoffs among Design Engineering, Product Definition, Release, Configuration Management, Manufacturing, and other downstream teams • Represent Mechanical Engineering requirements for PLM workflows, issue resolution, and automation; prioritize improvements based on engineering productivity and product risk • Establish metrics and continuous-improvement mechanisms for CAD throughput, release cycle time, product-definition quality, configuration integrity, and team capacity

• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience • 10+ years of experience in mechanical product development, CAD, product definition, or related engineering disciplines, including 3+ years leading technical teams • Deep experience with production CAD environments and strong working knowledge of SolidWorks or comparable parametric CAD systems • Experience with CATIA or another enterprise large-assembly CAD platform strongly preferred • Demonstrated experience improving CAD standards, engineering workflows, product-data quality, or design-release processes in a growing hardware organization • Strong understanding of drawings, GD&T, BOMs, engineering changes, configuration control, and manufacturing handoffs • Ability to think beyond day-to-day execution and build systems, processes, and teams that scale • Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Configuration Management, and software/tooling teams
• Experience with ENOVIA, 3DEXPERIENCE, or another enterprise PLM/PDM environment • Experience building or maintaining full-product reference assemblies and product configuration strategies • Experience scaling a CAD/design organization from a small transactional team into a broader product-definition and integration function