Experience with quoting tools and processes, including configurator logic
Proven leadership in managing design engineers or technical teams
Direct experience with submittal drawing packages and approval workflows
Background in technology scouting and new product introduction (NPI)
Responsibilities
Lead and coach the design engineering team, prioritizing tasks and balancing workloads
Actively contribute to design creation and troubleshooting alongside the team
Review designs and drawings for accuracy and compliance, coaching through peer reviews
Manage customer and contractor submittals, tracking revisions and approvals
Enhance the quoting tool and process, maintaining configuration logic and dependencies
Scout technologies and market trends to identify customer needs
Align design workflows with other departments to streamline processes
Benefits
Opportunity for professional growth and leadership development
Engagement in innovative projects with cutting-edge technologies
Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
Potential for obtaining security clearance
Access to advanced CAD/PLM tools and resources
Full Job Description
Overview
Location: Orlando, FL
General Function:
This position manages the design engineering team and owns the quoting tool and quoting process. As a player-coach, the manager leads, mentors, and prioritizes the team's work while actively contributing to designs, drawing development, and peer reviews. The manager oversees the end-to-end submittal drawing process and partners with other departments and functional leaders to ensure seamless, efficient workflows. This role contributes to enterprise configuration management and new product integration efforts, supports technology and market scouting, and provides voice-of-customer feedback to the organization.
Responsibilities
This position description is subject to change at any time as needed to meet the requirements of the program or company.
Specific Duties:
Team leadership and design delivery:
Lead and coach the design engineering team. Set priorities, allocate resources, balance workloads, and deliver on schedule.
Serve as a player-coach: create, refine, and troubleshoot designs and drawings alongside the team, including peak-demand and complex projects.
Review designs, drawings, CAD models, and BOMs for accuracy, consistency, and standards of compliance. Coach through peer reviews and resolve design issues.
Own accurate, on-time customer, contractor, and architectural submittals. Track turnaround, revisions, and approvals to remove bottlenecks and improve customer satisfaction.
Quoting and configuration management:
Own and improve the quoting tool and process. Administer the tool and maintain configurationlogic, dependencies, product structures, and rules with functional owners across connected systems.
Support enterprise configuration management. Keep design work aligned with baselines, change controls, and variant requirements; recommend improvements with functional leaders.
Technology, market, and customer insight:
Scout technologies, products, components, suppliers, and market trends. Identify customer needsand opportunities to expand configurable offerings.
Partner with product development, sales, and operations to assess new products, design changes, and technologies for compatibility, interoperability, integration, feasibility, cost, and implementation needs.
Bring the voice of the customer into product and workflow decisions. Share needs, pain points, and feature requests from quoting, design, submittals, and customer-facing teams with functional leaders.
Cross-functional workflows and improvement:
Own design workflows, methods, and releases. Align inputs, handoffs, reviews, and deliverables with other departments and functional leaders; remove bottlenecks.
Standardize templates, documentation, and review checklists to improve quality and shorten cycle times.
Qualifications
Experience:
10 years relevant experience in an engineering field.
Demonstrated experience administering and improving quoting tools and quoting processes, including configurator logic and cross-functional workflows.
Experience with product configuration management, CPQ/ERP/PLM systems, or solutions architecture relevant to design and quoting activities.
Proven leadership experience managing or supervising design engineers, drafters, or technical project contributors.
Direct experience developing, reviewing, and managing submittal drawing packages and approval of workflows.
Background in technology scouting, new product introduction (NPI), and system-level compatibility evaluation.
Desired Experience:
High proficiency in CAD/PLM platforms (e.g., SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD, Revit, etc.) and automated product configurators.
Advanced familiarity with relevant standards/regulations for Electronic Security Systems (e.g., AR 190-11, AFI 31-101, ESE-SIT-0001, ICD 705, UL 2050, ADA, NFPA 70, NFPA 101).
Demonstrated ability to interpret, develop, and review design drawings, blueprints, project plans, installation details, and device schedules, and to guide team members in resolving design issues.
Education:
Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Architecture/Construction Engineering, or related technical discipline, preferred. (or equivalent practical experience).
Clearance:
Ability to obtain Secret or Top Secret personnel clearance, if applicable.
About Vertex Inc
Vertex Inc is a leading provider of tax technology and services, enabling companies of all sizes to realize the full strategic potential of the tax function by automating and integrating tax processes, while leveraging advanced and predictive analytics of tax data. Vertex provides cloud-based and on-premise solutions that can be tailored to specific industries for every major line of tax, including income, sales and consumer use, value added and payroll. Vertex also offers solutions for tax data management, compliance and reporting, tax research, and planning and analysis. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
