Jobs at Blue Bird

Plans and executes digital, product, brand, advertising, content, and trade show marketing initiatives. Conducts competitive analysis, manages campaigns and content calendars, supports lead generation through CRM, maintains brand standards and marketing assets, coordinates events and budgets, and enhances website, social media, dealer communications, and customer engagement.

Controls finances for a new manufacturing facility, including budget-versus-actual tracking, expenditure monitoring, invoicing, federal reporting, cost-record maintenance, forecasts, audits, and financial performance reporting. The role identifies budget and timeline risks, supports mitigation strategies, presents insights to stakeholders and management, and contributes to cost reduction initiatives while ensuring compliance with accounting, organizational, and federal requirements.

Optimizes school bus manufacturing processes to improve safety, quality, labor efficiency, and delivery. Provides production-line technical support, develops tooling and process instructions, evaluates product changes, prepares capital funding requests, and implements improvements using SPC, PFMEA, control plans, and root-cause analysis. Maintains ISO 9000 documentation, supports engineering changes, and collaborates across manufacturing and engineering teams.

Leads the Chassis Engineering Design group, supervising design engineers and managing concurrent vehicle development projects. Oversees requirements, chassis and powertrain design, BOM creation, validation, product launches, issue resolution, quality improvements, and cost optimization. Ensures designs are robust, manufacturable, cost-effective, and compliant with regulatory and customer requirements. Collaborates with suppliers and internal teams while coaching employees, setting goals, evaluating performance, and delivering projects on time and within budget.

Leads enterprise total rewards strategy and execution, including compensation, benefits, executive compensation support, incentives, job architecture, governance, benchmarking, compliance, and rewards communications. Partners with Finance, Legal, HRBPs, vendors, and business leaders to manage compensation cycles, benefits renewals, incentive plans, job leveling, analytics, and employee experience across plant and corporate populations.

Leads fabrication quality operations in a manufacturing plant, managing the Quality team, plant quality metrics, corrective actions, audits, nonconforming materials, first article inspections, quality validation, and QMS effectiveness. Partners with Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations, and Supply Chain to reduce defects, scrap, rework, and customer concerns while maintaining ISO 9001 compliance. Oversees quality planning, employee development, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Manage FTA-funded public transit bids and contracts end-to-end: identify RFPs, oversee RFI/RFQ/RFPs, govern negotiations and amendments, ensure Buy America Act compliance, coordinate cross-functional execution, monitor performance, and represent the company onsite at Drummondville and Plattsburgh.

Design and develop mechanical components for electric vehicle powertrains using CAD tools; create models, drawings, and test documentation; ensure compliance with FMVSS and customer requirements; support prototypes and design reviews; collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure manufacturability and troubleshoot design issues.

Design mechanical components and systems for electric school buses using CAD, support prototype development and testing, ensure compliance with FMVSS and customer requirements, prepare technical documentation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure manufacturability and design feasibility.

Manage and grow Blue Bird's Southwest dealer network and direct fleet accounts to meet sales targets. Provide dealer training, territory management, pricing support, and trade-show representation. Monitor performance metrics, resolve dealer issues, and collaborate cross-functionally while traveling frequently.

Own the engineering product structure and digital product definition for a commercial chassis platform from concept through production. Develop EBOM, MBOM, configurable BOMs, option logic, effectivity, revision control, and engineering release processes. Coordinate configuration governance and change management across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, sourcing, quality, and suppliers. Integrate PLM, ERP, and manufacturing systems, conduct configuration audits, resolve launch and production data issues, and establish scalable product configuration processes.

Leads technical product definition and applications engineering for a commercial chassis platform from concept through production launch. Owns vehicle requirements, configuration architecture, option compatibility, body-builder interfaces, engineering change control, technical documentation, and product governance. Partners across engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, sales, suppliers, customers, and body manufacturers to ensure feasible, manufacturable vehicle configurations. Builds the Applications Engineering function, mentors engineers, supports prototypes and launches, and manages product complexity.

Owns vehicle controls integration for a commercial chassis platform from concept through production launch. Develops controls architecture, system requirements, interface definitions, diagnostics, validation strategies, and functional safety activities. Integrates electrical, software, mechanical, embedded, sensor, actuator, and ECU systems. Leads HIL/SIL validation, root-cause analysis, supplier technical direction, prototype builds, manufacturing launch, and production issue resolution while coordinating across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and program management.

Own product cost strategy for a commercial vehicle chassis from concept through production launch. Develop component, subsystem, and vehicle-level cost models; lead design-to-cost, VA/VE, DFM/DFA, supplier cost analysis, and cost optimization. Partner cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, finance, quality, and program management. Support sourcing, prototype builds, validation, launch, production changes, software releases, and regulatory compliance while balancing cost, safety, quality, durability, manufacturability, and performance.

Supports development and launch of a commercial vehicle chassis platform by defining product and customer requirements, managing configurations and option compatibility, coordinating engineering changes, and documenting interfaces. The engineer supports body-builder integration, prototypes, manufacturing launch, production issues, and technical application requests. This role works cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, customers, and sales to ensure vehicle configurations are manufacturable, compliant, accurately documented, and customer-ready.

The Corporate Accountant prepares monthly journal entries, reconciles accounts, supports financial reporting compliance, and assists with audits and financial projects.

Lead manufacturing engineering team to resolve production bottlenecks, manage CapEx, launch new products, implement poka-yoke and lean improvements, ensure DFM and ISO 9000 compliance, and drive process optimization and continuous improvement for on-time delivery and quality.

Leads industrialization project management for the next-generation F53/F59 chassis platform, coordinating facilities, equipment, process validation, quality, workforce, materials, supply chain, and production ramp activities. Manages schedules, budgets, risks, stakeholder accountability, knowledge transfer, and launch readiness to support Q1 2028 production while ensuring continuity, safety, quality, delivery, and scalable manufacturing operations.

Leads the end-to-end program management office for Blue Bird’s chassis business unit, overseeing cross-functional design, procurement, manufacturing transition, sales, service, IT, and launch readiness. Owns the master project plan, governance, risks, milestones, KPIs, budget, capital investments, and executive communications. Coordinates internal and external stakeholders to deliver the Q1 2028 production launch on time and on budget while ensuring customer, dealer, product, talent, quality, and financial continuity.

Design and develop vehicle electrical systems using CAD tools; create models, drawings, and test documentation; support prototype development, troubleshooting, and design reviews while ensuring compliance with FMVSS, state, and customer requirements. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure manufacturability and provide technical reports and presentations.