Jobs at Blue Bird

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.

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.

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.

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.

Supervise and work alongside production staff to organize workflows, meet production goals, train and onboard employees, evaluate stations for efficiency, implement procedures to improve quality and revenue, and manage performance through coaching and discipline.

Accountable for all Main Assembly plant operations (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People, Continuous Improvement). Develops and executes plant strategy, manages budgets and capital projects, leads cross-functional teams, drives Lean manufacturing and operational excellence, ensures staffing, training, safety culture, and meets operational and financial objectives.

Lead implementation, configuration, governance, and adoption of Microsoft 365 and Power Platform tools. Partner with business teams to deliver solutions, automate processes, provide support and training, monitor updates and usage, and maintain security, compliance, and documentation.

Lead development, calibration, validation, and optimization of vehicle control strategies across diesel, hybrid, electric, and alternative propulsion systems. Develop production-ready calibrations for propulsion, braking, thermal and energy management; execute vehicle testing, data acquisition, diagnostics, and software release management; collaborate with systems, validation, suppliers, and manufacturing to ensure robust performance from prototype through production launch.

Define and drive vehicle-level architecture, requirements, and integration across mechanical, electrical, software, and controls domains. Create and manage system requirements and ICDs, maintain traceability and verification, lead trade-offs and cross-functional integration, resolve technical issues, and establish scalable systems engineering practices to support prototype through production launches.

Lead electrical and controls engineering across Blue Bird's vehicle portfolio: set strategy and roadmap, manage multi-site teams, deliver high- and low-voltage architectures and EV systems from concept through launch, ensure safety, compliance, manufacturability, and cross-functional coordination to resolve field and warranty issues.