Software Engineering Manager
About this role
This role serves as a key customer-facing leader, partnering with internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery, proactive issue resolution, and a positive customer experience throughout the project lifecycle.
We offer:
People Leadership
Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers and technical leaders through performance management, career planning, mentorship, and succession planning activities.
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Conduct performance reviews, establish development goals, and provide ongoing coaching and feedback.
Partner with Talent Acquisition and engineering leadership to recruit, interview, and hire software engineering talent.
Develop future technical and leadership talent through mentoring and growth opportunities.
Support workforce planning and organizational development initiatives.
Engineering & Project Portfolio Management
Manage engineering staffing and resource allocation across a portfolio of concurrent customer projects.
Balance project priorities, engineering capacity, customer commitments, and organizational objectives.
Forecast engineering demand and provide recommendations for staffing and capacity planning.
Monitor project labor utilization, budget performance, and engineering execution metrics.
Partner with Project Managers, Account Management, Solution Development, and Engineering leadership to ensure successful project delivery.
Support project estimation efforts, scope reviews, technical risk assessments, and solution planning activities.
Ensure engineering resources are assigned effectively to meet project schedules and customer commitments.
Drive continuous improvements in project execution, resource planning, and engineering delivery processes.
Customer & Technical Leadership
Serve as a senior escalation point for customer concerns, project execution challenges, technical risks, and resource conflicts.
Provide guidance and support to project teams for complex warehouse software implementations.
Collaborate with customers and project stakeholders to resolve issues and maintain strong working relationships.
Assist engineering teams in solution architecture reviews, execution planning, troubleshooting, and risk mitigation.
Partner with solution development and sales teams to support customer opportunities through technical consultation and engineering estimates.
Promote adherence to engineering standards, best practices, and quality expectations across project teams.
Build and maintain strong customer relationships by providing leadership, responsiveness, and proactive communication throughout project execution.
Tasks and Qualifications:
What We Are Looking For
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
8+ years of software engineering experience in industrial automation, warehouse execution/control systems, material handling, or related industries.
3+ years of people management or technical leadership experience.
Experience leading technical teams responsible for software project delivery.
Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and balancing competing priorities.
Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
Demonstrated experience managing engineering resources, project staffing, and project forecasting through either formal people leadership or project lead responsibilities.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making skills.
Demonstrated customer-facing leadership experience, including managing customer expectations, resolving escalations, and building collaborative relationships with project stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience managing/leading teams responsible for WCS, WES, WMS, EMS, or industrial automation software solutions.
Experience supporting project estimation, solution development, and technical proposal activities.
Knowledge of software development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, and software delivery best practices.
Knowledge of material handling systems and warehouse automation technologies.
Experience leading customer escalations and resolving complex project delivery issues.
Job Specific Details
Lead a software engineering organization supporting the implementation and delivery of warehouse automation software solutions.
Manage a team of software engineers responsible for project design, development, testing, deployment, commissioning, and go-live support activities.
Oversee staffing and assignment of engineering resources across a portfolio of customer projects ranging from small enhancements to large-scale warehouse implementations.
Collaborate with project teams to assess project risks, staffing requirements, schedule impacts, and technical challenges.
Review project health and execution metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and proactively mitigate risks.
Support project teams with solution architecture reviews, execution strategy development, and issue resolution.
Facilitate cross-functional communication between engineering, project management, controls engineering, commissioning, account management, and customer stakeholders.
Manage engineering escalations and coordinate resolution of technical, resource, and project execution issues.
Provide input into project planning, engineering estimates, budget forecasts, and organizational capacity planning.
Drive standardization and process improvements that improve engineering effectiveness, delivery quality, and customer satisfaction.
Travel as required to support customer engagements, project reviews, engineering workshops, and critical project milestones (typically up to 15%).
Company at a glance
Are looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of supply chain solutions is our home. KION is shaping world trade – globally, regionally, locally. We ensure that supply chains reach their full potential: fast, efficient, smart, sustainable and reliable.
Our 42,000 employees make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: The Supply Chain Solutions Company. Our people’s passion is innovating, automating, and orchestrating solutions for our customers’ supply chains.
Would you like to be part of our international team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry.
With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a global group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis. Regardless of which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape how we act and how we work with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both at home and abroad.
KION is the architect of global, regional and local supply chains. Our brands are well established:
Dematic is the global leader in intelligent supply chain and automation solutions. The Linde Material Handling and STILL brands serve the premium and higher value segments of the industrial truck market. Baoli focuses on industrial trucks in the lower value and economy segments.
As a provider of comprehensive supply chain solutions with a worldwide service network, KION has a global presence and a regional focus on the needs of its customers. KION brands keep the world moving.
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