About the Role:
As a Bid Manager, you will help drive the success of DCS's project bids and proposals, applying real project management discipline to keep each pursuit moving from early concept through final submission. You will sit within our Pre Contract team, working alongside the engineers, estimators, and account leaders who build every bid, and you will be the person who keeps a dozen moving pieces on schedule at once. This is a strong fit if you like bringing order to complex, deadline driven work, and if you want a seat close to the leaders who make the call on which pursuits DCS goes after next.
What You’ll Be Doing
- You will own the schedule for every active proposal, keeping engineering, estimating, and sales aligned against submission deadlines for industrial automation and supply chain project bids.
- You will run the recurring reviews where the team surfaces progress, open risks, and any change in strategy, and you will decide what needs to move as a result.
- You will guide each proposal through DCS's stage gate process, from initial qualification through internal review and final approval.
- You will keep several pursuits moving at the same time, reordering your own priorities as one bid heats up and another goes quiet.
- You will track each proposal against the win strategy set for it, and flag early when the work on the ground has drifted from that plan.
- You will step in when solution development stalls, pulling in the right people to work through a technical, commercial, or scheduling issue before it costs the team time.
- You will give leadership a clear, honest read on where each pursuit stands, not just a status update but a real sense of risk and confidence.
- You will partner with engineering, estimating, and sales to make sure what goes out the door is accurate, compliant, and built to win.
We're Excited About You Because
- You can hold several pursuits at once without losing track of any of them, and you know how to identify, manage, and escalate a risk before it becomes a problem.
- You are comfortable initiating and guiding a cross functional team in response to a customer update or a requirement that just changed.
- You communicate as clearly with a project team in the weeds as you do with the senior leaders reviewing a pursuit, and you are proficient enough in Microsoft Office and structured process work that the tools never slow you down.
- You bring a calm, steady presence under deadline pressure, the kind of leadership style that sets clear expectations and holds a team accountable without needing to raise your voice.
- You are proactive about the process itself, quick to flag a gap or suggest a better way to run it, and you want to work somewhere that instinct actually gets used.
This job description is not exhaustive. Other duties may be assigned as needed, and responsibilities may evolve to support the business and employee experience.
About Us:
Conveyor may be in our name, but it’s only part of what we do. DCS was founded in 1982 and has grown to serve major clients in multiple industries by providing material handling, full-scale warehouse operations and conveyor design solutions that are custom crafted for their need. We don’t sell ready-made systems - we build relationships that empower us to craft custom solutions together. It’s the teamwork approach, sharing ideas and building upon them, that produces the best results.
And DCS is committed to creating an extraordinary employment experience for our team. We work like crazy to hire and develop great people, build relationships, and ensure that the programs and services we offer our team are among the best in the business- from a killer snack wall and casual work environment to flexible PTO and opportunities to give back within the community.
More reasons to join our team:
- We pride ourselves in our family-like culture and casual, but focused, work environment
- We offer competitive salaries and health benefits
- Our 401K program includes a 100% match up to 5%
- Participation in our Discretionary Profit-Sharing Program
- We offer our employees flexibility and autonomy
- We do community outreach projects throughout the year
- We know how to throw company events
- We work hard, but we also know how to have fun - darts, anyone?
Individuals seeking employment at Designed Conveyor Systems are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Accommodation is available to applicants with a disability condition, when applying, testing, or interviewing for a position. Please let us know if you need accommodation.
Skills Required
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent pursuits and identify, manage, and escalate risks.
- Ability to initiate and guide cross-functional teams through changing customer requirements.
- Clear communication with project teams and senior leadership.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and structured process work.
- Ability to remain calm under deadline pressure, set expectations, and hold teams accountable.
- Proactive process-improvement mindset.
What We Do
We don’t sell ready-made solutions, we build relationships that empower us to craft solutions, together. It’s the teamwork approach, sharing ideas and building on them, that produces the most worthwhile solution.
