Engineering Systems & Automation Manager McPherson Engineering Jurupa Valley, CA Job Details Full-time $90,000 - $125,000 a year 22 hours ago Benefits Health insurance Dental insurance 401(k) Paid time off Employee assistance program Vision insurance 401(k) matching Professional development assistance Life insurance Retirement plan Qualifications Bachelor's degree Full Job Description Job Summary McPherson Engineering is a growing multidisciplinary engineering firm looking for a technically strong, hands-on systems and automation professional to help modernize how our company operates. This is not a traditional IT help-desk position and not a pure software-development position. We are looking for someone who can learn how our engineering business works, identify repetitive or inefficient processes, and build better systems around them. You will work directly with company ownership and our engineering team to improve project management, data collection, engineering production, drafting workflows, automation, AI integration, and internal business systems.

The objective is straightforward: help us produce better engineering work faster, more consistently, and with better information about how our business is performing. Responsibilities Own and improve our project-management and business-management systems, including implementation and administration of platforms such as

BQE CORE.

Integrate project management, time tracking, accounting, CRM, email, and other business systems. Develop simple internal applications and automation tools where off-the-shelf software does not adequately solve the problem. Build systems for tracking employee time, labor cost, project profitability, turnaround time, workload, and other operational metrics. Automate repetitive administrative workflows. Develop dashboards and reporting tools for management. Help automate proposal generation, project setup, invoicing, project closeout, and similar processes. Develop tools to streamline repetitive engineering calculations and workflows. Work with engineers to convert established calculation procedures into reliable software tools and templates. Improve AutoCAD and engineering drawing templates, standards, blocks, libraries, and automated drafting processes. Investigate opportunities to use AI in engineering, drafting, QA/QC, document review, project administration, and internal knowledge management. Develop document-control tools, including QR-based verification of digitally signed engineering documents. Create systems for organizing and searching historical engineering projects and company knowledge. Maintain integrations between company software platforms. Assist with website administration and basic digital infrastructure. Coordinate with outside IT vendors when specialized network, cybersecurity, or hardware support is required. Document systems and train employees so improvements actually become part of the company's workflow. Proven experience practicing in an industrial or manufacturing engineering role with a focus on automation systems within a factory setting. Demonstrated project management experience in manufacturing environments with a track record of delivering complex automation projects on time. Strong background in plastics injection molding processes as well as assembly line automation. Expertise in CAD software such as AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Creo for designing schematics and mechanical components. Hands-on experience with industrial automation technologies including robot programming, vision inspection systems, welding automation, and PLCs. Familiarity with lean management practices, Six Sigma manufacturing techniques, and continuous improvement methodologies. Ability to perform engineering troubleshooting across mechanical, electrical, and software domains within a manufacturing context. Excellent team leadership skills with the ability to coordinate cross-disciplinary teams towards shared goals in fast-paced production environments. Experience The ideal candidate is a technical generalist and problem solver rather than someone narrowly specialized in one software platform.

You should be comfortable looking at a messy manual process and saying, "There has to be a better way to do this," and then actually building the better way.

Useful experience includes:

Business process automation APIs and software integrations Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or similar programming languages SQL and relational databases Microsoft 365 / Power Automate / Power BI REST APIs and webhooks AI/LLM tools and APIs CRM, ERP, project-management, or professional-services automation software QuickBooks integrations AutoCAD automation, AutoLISP, .NET, Dynamo, or similar CAD/BIM automation Building lightweight internal web applications Data analysis and dashboard development You do not need to be an engineer. However, you must be comfortable learning technical engineering workflows and working closely with professional engineers.

Experience in an architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, or other technical professional-services business would be particularly valuable. The Person We're Looking For We care more about demonstrated capability than credentials.

A strong candidate will:

Be highly self-directed. Research unfamiliar problems instead of waiting for detailed instructions. Understand how to translate a business problem into a technical solution. Know when to configure existing software and when a custom tool is justified. Be comfortable experimenting with new technology. Have strong attention to detail. Communicate effectively with both technical and nontechnical employees. Build maintainable systems rather than one-off hacks nobody else understands. Understand that engineering automation must improve reliability and QA/QC, not simply make things faster. Be interested in having substantial ownership over how a growing engineering company uses technology. Why This Role Is Different You will not be joining a large IT department and maintaining systems somebody else designed.

You will have substantial freedom to help determine what our technology stack should become. We already have functioning business processes, engineering workflows, project-management systems, accounting systems, and drafting standards. Many of them have developed organically as the company has grown. Your job is to help us systematically improve them. Some projects will take an afternoon. Others may take months. Some solutions will involve configuring commercial software. Others may involve APIs, automation, AI, scripts, databases, or applications that we build ourselves. The position has the potential to grow into a broader Director of Engineering Technology / Business Systems role as the company grows. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, data science, business technology, or a related discipline is preferred but not required . We will strongly consider candidates who can demonstrate equivalent real-world capability through projects, previous employment, GitHub repositories, applications, automation systems, or other technical work. 3+ years of relevant professional experience preferred. AEC-industry experience is valuable but not required. AEC-industry experience is valuable but not required

Pay:

$90,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Employee assistance program Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Professional development assistance Retirement plan Vision insurance Application Question(s): Describe one business process you personally automated or substantially improved. What was the problem, what did you build or implement, what technologies did you use, and what was the measurable result?

Experience:

technical generalist: 3 years (Required)

Work Location:

In person