[Hiring] Program Engineer @Designed Conveyor Systems

Role Description

As our Program Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in supporting the successful delivery of projects across a specific customer portfolio with diverse building and project types. You’ll act as a technical and program-level integrator—bridging Engineering Delivery, Program Management, Controls, Applications, and Solutions and Growth teams to ensure alignment from early opportunity through execution and go-live. This role is highly cross-functional and requires strong functional design expertise, commercial awareness, and the ability to proactively identify risks, align stakeholders, and drive clarity across project phases. You will provide engineering oversight across multiple concurrent precontract opportunities and active projects, helping ensure solutions are well-defined, executable, and aligned to DCS standards and customer expectations.

In this role, you will:

• Serve as a technical and program partner across projects and opportunities within a vertical ensuring alignment, visibility, and execution readiness across engineering and program teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years in material handling system design and delivery engineering.
• Strong engineering and design expertise and understanding of how systems translate from concept to execution.
• Comfortable operating across multiple projects and priorities, balancing detail with big-picture program alignment.
• Excel in cross-functional communication and can influence without direct authority.
• Strong commercial awareness, including estimating, proposal support, and cost evaluation.
• Proactive in identifying risks and driving alignment before issues impact execution.
• Enjoy work that includes travel expectations between 30-40% of your typical year.
• Highly organized and capable of tracking multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and deliverables simultaneously.

Requirements

• Accountable for leading by example in delivering exceptional employee and customer experiences, and modeling DCS values and cultural behaviors.
• Accountable for maintaining visibility across all active and upcoming projects, ensuring alignment between engineering, program management, and customer expectations.
• Accountable for ensuring functional designs are robust, aligned to best practices, and executable across engineering and controls.
• Accountable for supporting accurate engineering estimates including schedules, resource skillset, and scope definitions during proposal and front-end phases.
• Accountable for proactively identifying design, schedule, and vendor risks and ensuring they are communicated and addressed early.
• Accountable for enabling effective collaboration between Mechanical Engineering, Project Engineering, Controls, PMs, and external partners.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries and health benefits.
• 401K program includes a 100% match up to 5%.
• Participation in our Discretionary Profit-Sharing Program.
• Flexibility and autonomy for employees.
• Community outreach projects throughout the year.
• Company events and a family-like culture.

Company Description

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.

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.