Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager — Mount Olive, NC

MAC-IMPulse \| Products for Electrified Mass Transit

Tired of being one of a hundred manufacturing engineering managers doing the same generic job at the same generic plant?

If you've spent years leading engineering teams and it still feels like you could be replaced by the next guy with a similar resume — this is different. There are only a handful of people in the country who can say they build the hardware that keeps light rail, streetcars, and high-speed trains powered and running safely. You could be one of them.

Who we are

MAC-IMPulse is the only U.S.-based manufacturer of Overhead Contact System (OCS) products — the catenary and contact-wire hardware that powers electrified light rail, streetcars, trolley buses, and high-speed rail across North America and Asia. Our reputation rests on engineering built to last for decades in safety-critical service. We're a specialized, mission-driven industry, and we don't need you to already know it — we need you to be able to lead in it.

Here's the problem we need you to solve:

Our engineering team needs a leader who can own design, validation, and manufacturing support at the same time, and who can turn a group of skilled individual engineers into a team that runs itself. You'll set the technical standards, mentor the people who'll eventually replace you, and be the person Sales, Operations, and customers call when something has to get right the first time — because in our industry, "close enough" isn't a category.

You don't need rail experience. You need to have already proven you can lead engineering in a manufacturing environment — DFMEA, prototype validation, tooling, BOMs, the real stuff — and be hungry to become the expert nobody else in the industry can claim to be.

Here's what changes for you:

In two years, you're not just "an engineering manager" anymore — you're one of the few people in North America who understands OCS engineering end to end. You've built a team of engineers who trust you and want to stay. You've got a seat at the table with Sales and customers instead of just executing what they hand you. And you did it in an industry that isn't going anywhere — electrified transit isn't a trend, it's infrastructure.

Curious if this is you?

Click the link to start a conversation — we're not asking you to apply for a job yet, just to find out if this is worth five minutes of your time.