Manager, Applications Engineering

Fives Landis Ltd; Louisville, Northern (KY, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Fives Intralogistics Corp. is seeking a Manager, Applications Engineering to lead the engineering capacity and the work pipeline in a remote-capable, permanent team. You’ll own headcount planning, budgeting, hiring, and the promotion process, partnering with senior engineers to align strategy with execution.

This role drives capability planning, development of skills and tools, and the technology roadmap. You’ll mentor engineers, steward process improvements, and ensure consistent design and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• 12+ years in engineering with budget and headcount ownership.
• Proven hiring plan development and execution.
• Experience running a promotion process with a technical standard.
• Capital equipment experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the capacity plan for the function: pipeline vs staffing.
• Own the function budget and report against plan.
• Own hiring for the function: open reqs, set bands, select.
• Make the promotion decision at the gate with the Principal Engineer.

Skills

Capacity planning

Headcount budgeting

Hiring strategy

Promotion discipline

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

12+ years engineering leadership

Hiring plan experience

Promotion process experience

Capital equipment experience (preferred)

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Manager, Applications Engineering

Legal Entity: Fives Intralogistics Corp.

Country: United States

State: Kentucky

Job Family: Sales Engineering and Proposals

Job Type: Permanent position

Work Location: Remote

Compensation:

Position summary

The Manager owns engineering capacity and the capability to do the work.

This seat answers for whether the engineering function can carry the pipeline: headcount against it, the cost of running the function, hiring, and the promotion decisions that turn engineers into reviewers.

It also owns the capability plan: which skills the function needs, and the training and tool investment behind them. The estimating and design method itself stays with Senior and Principal Engineer. This seat funds and staffs the standard; it does not write it.

It shares ownership of the solution methodology and the technology roadmap with the Manager, Solutions Engineering: which technology classes and third‑party partners the department can offer, and the analysis practice behind the concepts. The two seats hold it together, so what we can design and what we can price stay the same list.

Innovation – We create a culture of relentless improvement of solutions and processes to make every day better.

Integrity – We are open, honest, and committed to giving the straight story every time.

Service – We serve our clients, families, communities, and most importantly our people who are empowered and safe in making decisions and taking actions that dare to make us better.

Ownership – We take full, personal, individual responsibility for our actions and our work.

M · People, capacity and money

• Own the capacity plan for the function: what the pipeline requires, what can be staffed, and the gap between them.
• Own the function budget and its share of the cost of pursuit, and report both against plan.
• Own hiring for the function: open the reqs, set the bands, and make the selection.
• Make the promotion decision at the level gate, on the method review the Principal Engineer runs.
• Own the engineering capability plan: the skills the function needs, the training and tool investment behind it. The estimating and design method itself stays with Senior and Principal Engineer.
• Own the solution methodology and the technology roadmap: which technology classes and third‑party partners the department can offer, and the analysis practice behind the concepts. Technical authority over a given concept stays with Principal Engineer.

Contributes to

• Department strategy, organisation and toolchain investment

Reviews and approves

• Line management, performance and pay

Working with the rest of the team

Partner

They bring

You keep

Manager, Solutions Engineering The design and analysis side of the methodology and the roadmap, held jointly with this seat The estimating side of the same

Principal Engineer The method review and the technical standard The promotion decision that follows it, and the investment behind the standard

Supervisor, Applications Engineering Day‑to‑day management of the engineers Headcount, bands and the capability plan

Offering Manager What the queue needs, week to week How much engineering capacity exists

Manager, Proposal Development Proposal capacity and the proposal standard Engineering capacity and capability

Director, Applications Engineering Priorities and approval The function’s ability to deliver against them

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 12+ years in engineering organisations, including budget and headcount ownership.
• Required: has built a hiring plan against a pipeline and been held to it.
• Required: has run a promotion process with a written technical standard behind it.
• Preferred, not required: material handling or capital‑equipment experience.

Skills

Language. Presents capacity, capability and hiring cases to senior management, and writes the bands the function hires against. Mathematical. Capacity modelling, utilisation, cost of engineering hours against order intake. Reasoning. Distinguishes a capacity problem from a method problem, and does not solve one with the other.

Travel

Travel to customer offices, sites and other Fives entities as required, typically under 20%.

Progression

Advancement to Director, Applications Engineering.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, colour vision, and ability to adjust focus. Travel via automobile and/or commercial airline to customer offices for meetings, vendor’s plants, and job site to coordinate the conveyors or equipment with the building and installers.

Work environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, outside weather conditions, risk of electrical shock, and risk of radiation. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, unless performing work in shop or field conditions.