Lead Pre-Sales Engineer - CNC & Aerospace Solutions

Fathom; Town of Hartland (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid time off

401k plan

Discounts on products

Job summary

Fathom Manufacturing seeks a customer-facing technical and commercial leader to support the growth of our aerospace and defense business. You will lead Pre-Sales Applications Engineers, guide complex opportunities, and translate customer requirements into competitive, profitable manufacturing proposals.

You will own the technical strategy for CNC quotations, collaborate with Sales and Finance on pricing and margins, and develop manufacturing concepts with NRE and capital investment

Qualifications

• Experience supporting aerospace/defense customers with technical proposals.
• Strong CNC machining knowledge including GD&T, tooling, and inspection.
• Proven technical selling and negotiating skills.
• Strong commercial judgment on cost modeling, pricing, margins, and NRE development.
• Experience leading engineering teams and managing competing priorities.
• Ability to interpret complex drawings and CAD models and communicate with technical and commercial audiences.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into manufacturing proposals.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop Applications Engineers, setting priorities and ensuring proposal quality.
• Partner with Sales during discovery, qualification, technical presentations, negotiations, and closing.
• Engage customer engineering and procurement teams to understand requirements, timing, priorities, and manufacturing challenges.
• Own the technical strategy and completeness of complex CNC quotations, including materials, processes, cycle times, tooling, programming, outside processing, inspection, volumes, and delivery requirements.
• Lead proposal reviews, validate assumptions and risks, and partner with Sales and Finance on pricing, margins, and commercial positioning.
• Develop manufacturing concepts and lead customer-facing DFM discussions based on geometry, materials, tolerances, volume, capability, and execution risk.
• Develop NRE proposals and support capital investment business cases for tooling, engineering, qualification, equipment, and new capabilities.
• Identify quality, documentation, traceability, security, contractual, and customer-specific requirements during qualification and quoting.
• Lead the technical handoff of awarded work and use quote-to-actual results to improve future estimates and proposals.

Skills

Aerospace/defense customer engagement

CNC machining knowledge

Technical selling & business dev

Cost modelling & pricing

Engineering leadership

CAD/drawings interpretation

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical/manufacturing engineering or related field (or equivalent precision manufacturing experience)

Job description

Fathom Manufacturing seeks a customer-facing technical and commercial leader to support the growth of our aerospace and defense business. You will lead Pre-Sales Applications Engineers, guide complex opportunities, and translate customer requirements into competitive, profitable manufacturing proposals.

You will own the technical strategy for CNC quotations, collaborate with Sales and Finance on pricing and margins, and develop manufacturing concepts with NRE and capital investment