Senior Project Engineer
Company: ConveyX Solutions
Role Type: Full-time - RemoteIndustry: Material Handling / Warehouse Automation
Level: Senior Engineering Leadership
Focus: Concept Through Startup
About ConveyX Solutions
ConveyX Solutions designs, manufactures, integrates, and supports practical material handling systems. As part of the IFMC, we work within a consortium of independent business units that operate interdependently around shared values: cooperation, integrity, respect, honesty, dedication, trustworthiness, stewardship, and self-discipline.
ConveyX Solutions provides customized material handling solutions for retail distribution, ecommerce, warehousing and distribution, parcel handling, and transportation/logistics. The company offers standardized and custom-built options, along with full turnkey integration, project piloting, digital simulation, project management, and after-install support.
ConveyX Solutions is a Michigan-based vertically integrated manufacturer of material handling equipment and a provider of turnkey solutions for high-volume unit handling sites throughout North America. Its solutions include conveyor systems, sortation systems, loading and unloading applications, and build-to-order options designed to support safety, operational efficiency, and energy efficiency.
Job Description
The Senior Project Engineer will lead the technical development of conveyor, sortation, pallet handling, retrofit, and custom equipment projects from concept through execution. This role converts customer objectives into manufacturable, installable, maintainable, and commercially sound solutions.
This position is ideal for an experienced engineer who brings strong design capability, an engineering review mindset, and the ability to identify weak assumptions before they become field issues. The right candidate will prefer proven, simple, maintainable solutions unless added complexity creates measurable value.
Key Responsibilities
Lead project engineering for layouts, equipment concepts, technical scope, RFQs, vendor coordination, and design reviews.
- Evaluate product flow, throughput, accumulation, transfers, merges, diverts, ergonomics, maintenance access, installation constraints, and commissioning risk.
- Develop solutions that balance safety, customer requirements, physics, reliability, simplicity, maintainability, schedule, and total installed cost.
- Support proposals, budgets, basis-of-design documents, customer reviews, and internal handoffs with clear assumptions, exclusions, risks, and next steps.
- Coordinate mechanical, controls, fabrication, installation, and startup activity to reduce rework and protect project execution.
- Work directly with customers and internal teams to understand application needs, propose practical solutions, and support project handoff and execution.
- Prepare and review technical proposals, layouts, supporting documentation, vendor RFQs, installation considerations, and commissioning plans.
- Communicate clearly with customers, vendors, installers, manufacturing, sales, estimating, project management, controls teams, and technicians.
Skills
- Senior-level engineering experience with conveyor, sortation, automation, distribution, fulfillment, parcel, pallet handling, or related industrial systems.
- Ability to read, review, and challenge layouts, drawings, RFQs, specifications, vendor quotes, and customer requirements.
- Strong technical communication with customers, vendors, installers, manufacturing, sales, estimating, project management, and technicians.
- Practical problem-solving skills with the ability to identify risks, weak assumptions, and likely points of failure under real operating conditions.
- Ability to support technical proposals, equipment scopes, budgets, design reviews, customer reviews, and internal project handoffs.
- Ability to work with layout and project tools used in conveyor and automation environments, such as AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, project schedules, vendor documentation, and related engineering tools.
Knowledge
- Strong working knowledge of material flow, product behavior, equipment selection, installation realities, and project risk.
- Knowledge of conveyor, sortation, pallet handling, retrofit, custom equipment, warehouse automation, and systems integration projects.
- Practical familiarity with controls architecture, preferably Allen-Bradley / Rockwell Automation, Ethernet/IP, distributed I/O, VFDs, MDR, sensors, barcode readers, and safety devices.
- Understanding of technical proposals, vendor RFQs, equipment scopes, controls concepts, and startup support plans.
- Knowledge of manufacturable, installable, maintainable, and commercially sound engineering solutions.
- Engineering degree or equivalent practical experience in mechanical, industrial, manufacturing, systems, or controls engineering preferred.
Ability to Implement
- Translate customer objectives into practical equipment concepts, layouts, scopes, and project execution plans.
- Balance customer needs, safety, reliability, simplicity, maintainability, schedule, and total installed cost when developing solutions.
- Lead technical discussions, challenge assumptions, and identify risks before they impact manufacturing, installation, startup, or customer outcomes.
- Coordinate across mechanical, controls, fabrication, installation, and startup teams to reduce rework and protect project execution.
- Support projects from concept through startup, including proposals, budgets, design reviews, vendor coordination, internal handoffs, and customer communication.
- Take ownership, follow through, and contribute effectively in an interdependent team environment.
Preferred Experience
- Conveyor manufacturing, custom equipment, retrofit projects, warehouse automation, or systems integration.
- Technical proposals, vendor RFQs, equipment scopes, controls concepts, and startup support plans.
- Experience with distribution, fulfillment, parcel, pallet handling, ecommerce, warehousing, logistics, or high-volume unit handling environments.
- Experience collaborating with sales, software/controls engineers, third-party suppliers, end users, project managers, and installation teams.
Why ConveyX Solutions
This is a role for an engineer who wants to build systems that work in the field, support customers for the long term, and contribute to a consortium environment built on mutual success, continuous improvement, agility, innovation, high expectations, empowerment, and specialization.
At ConveyX Solutions, you will be part of a team focused on practical, scalable solutions that help customers move, store, sort, load, unload, and ship materials more safely and efficiently.
Benefits
Full-time employees are eligible for the following standard benefit offerings:
- Competitive pay based on competency
- 100% employer-paid health insurance and HSA for employees
- Flexible paid time off and holidays
- 401(k) with employer matching
- Discretionary bonuses
Join Our Team
We are excited to welcome new talent to our team! If you are passionate about what you do and are looking for a dynamic and supportive work environment, we encourage you to apply. Join us and be a part of a company that values innovation, collaboration, and professional growth. We look forward to seeing how we can succeed together.
- -Unfortunately, we cannot hire applicants from California.
Experience
Preferred
- Vendor RFQ
- MDR
- VFD
- Allen-Bradely/Rockwell Automation
- Systems Integration
- Warehouse Automation
Education
Preferred
- Bachelors or better in Mechanical Engineering or related field
Behaviors
Preferred
- Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity
- Innovative: Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking
- Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
- Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
Motivations
Preferred
- Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help
- Entrepreneurial Spirit: Inspired to perform well by an ability to drive new ventures within the business
- Goal Completion: Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks
- Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization
Equal Opportunity Employer
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Work Location: Remote
