[Remote] Manager, Solutions Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fives is seeking a Manager, Solutions Engineering to lead the capacity, budget, staffing, methodology, and technology roadmap of its solutions function. The role manages hiring, promotions, performance and pay, capacity planning, pursuit costs, and technology and partner evaluation while collaborating with engineering and business leaders.

Responsibilities

• 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 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
• Department strategy, organisation and toolchain investment
• Line management, performance and pay
• Presents capacity, capability and technology cases to senior management and to customers
• Travel to customer sites, partners and other Fives entities as required, typically 25%

Skills

• •Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering or Engineering
• Advanced degree an advantage
• •12+ years in solution design, industrial engineering or systems integration, including budget and headcount ownership
• •Required: has owned operation-level concepts before managing people who do
• •Required: has built or maintained a technology or partner evaluation practice
• Language. Presents capacity, capability and technology cases to senior management and to customers
• Mathematical. Capacity modelling, utilization, and the rate and throughput analysis the function is judged on
• Reasoning. Distinguishes a capacity problem from a methodology problem, and does not solve one with the other
• Travel to customer sites, partners and other Fives entities as required, typically 25%

Company Overview

Fives, an industrial engineering group, designs and supplies machines, process equipment and production lines for the world's largest industrial players. It was founded in 1812, and is headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France, FRA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.fivesgroup.com/.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Fives has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 1 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.