Engineering Manager (Production Scheduling)

relex; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Two volunteering days per year

International career opportunities

Job summary

relex is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a software development team focused on production scheduling within a global planning platform. You’ll shape architecture, set quality standards, and mentor engineers without daily hands-on coding, in a fast-growing, distributed environment.

You will partner with product, operations and stakeholders to translate customer needs into a technical roadmap, while nurturing career growth and fostering an AI-enabled engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading a software development team.
• Software development background with a focus on architecture.
• Strong facilitation and interpersonal skills.
• Hands-on familiarity with manufacturing operations and how planning tools are used by industrial customers.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a software development team of approximately five engineers.
• Maintain a working understanding of the product's technical architecture and direction to guide trade-offs and priorities.
• Partner with the team to define what ''great'' looks like, including engineering practices, quality bar, and delivery expectations.
• Contribute to the broader strategy for integrating AI tooling into daily engineering work and organizational workflows.
• Translate production scheduling customer needs into a clear technical roadmap in collaboration with product and operations stakeholders.

Skills

Team leadership

Software architecture

Facilitation

English fluency

AI tooling

Job description

Role overview

Lead a software development team focused on production scheduling technology delivered as a dedicated application within a unified supply chain planning platform. The role blends people leadership with enough technical depth to shape product architecture and direction, without requiring hands‑on coding every day. It is suited to an engineering manager who enjoys coaching technically strong teams, defining quality standards collaboratively, and operating in a fast‑growing, internationally distributed environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a software development team of approximately five engineers, supporting both performance and career development
• Maintain a working understanding of the product's technical architecture and direction to guide trade‑offs and priorities
• Partner with the team to define what "great" looks like, including engineering practices, quality bar, and delivery expectations
• Contribute to the broader strategy for integrating AI tooling into daily engineering work and organizational workflows
• Translate production scheduling customer needs into a clear technical roadmap in collaboration with product and operations stakeholders

Requirements

• Proven experience leading a software development team, ideally in a growing or scaling organization
• A software development background with a solid grasp of architecture and technical trade‑offs
• Strong facilitation and interpersonal skills, with the ability to draw out the best in a technically strong team without being overly directive
• Hands‑on familiarity with manufacturing operations and how planning tools are used in practice by industrial customers
• Comfort using AI tools in everyday work and helping shape their use as a wider organizational strategy
• Fluent written and spoken English

Nice to have

• Specific experience building or using production scheduling software, such as advanced planning and scheduling (APS) tools used in discrete or process manufacturing
• Experience working with international, cross‑border engineering teams

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote‑friendly team spanning Finland and Sweden, with flexibility in how and where work is performed (Portugal may also be considered)
• Flat hierarchies, high ownership, and autonomy over how the team delivers
• International career and learning opportunities in a rapidly growing, financially robust software company
• Annual leave plus practical benefits supporting work, family, wellness, and everyday life
• Two paid volunteering days each year and a culture that supports meaningful, sustainability‑focused work
• Candidates must hold a valid work permit for the country in which they are based