Engineering Jobs in Kennedale Texas

Production / Materials Coordinator | Manufacturing Environment

We are seeking a detail-oriented professional who thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing setting and understands how critical materials flow is to production success.

In this role, you will monitor raw materials, components, and finished goods to ensure production stays on schedule, inventory remains accurate, and operations run efficiently. You’ll work closely with procurement, engineering, logistics, and production teams to solve issues before they impact output.

What we’re looking for:

Manufacturing or production experience highly preferred

Strong analytical and problem-solving ability

Excellent communication and coordination skills

Ability to manage priorities in a deadline-driven environment

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys being at the center of operations and making a direct impact on production performance.

Confidential conversations welcome. Send resumes directly to

ikon Technologies is an innovative solutions provider for the automobile industry. We strive to be the trusted partner of franchise dealers by providing reliable, user-friendly, connected car applications and services to help save time, enhance profit, and build lasting relationships with customers. Our commitment to provide the unwavering support and the highest quality solutions on the market which sets us apart.

Ikon Technologies is seeking a Technical Product Manager to lead our B2B2C AI-driven platform, Smart Marketing — a multi-tenant messaging and lifecycle engagement system serving hundreds of independently operated dealerships.

This is not a traditional marketing role. This is a platform ownership role responsible for building and scaling messaging infrastructure across SMS, Apple Business Messages, in-app channels (mobile and web), lifecycle automation, and retention-based offers.

The ideal candidate has experience building SaaS platforms in multi-tenant environments and can translate messaging systems, automation workflows, APIs, and compliance requirements into scalable product architecture that drives measurable revenue impact.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the product roadmap for Smart Marketing, aligning platform capabilities with company growth objectives
• Design and scale messaging orchestration across SMS, Apple Business Messages, and in-app communication channels
• Partner with engineering to define APIs, event-driven triggers, data pipelines, and multi-tenant configuration frameworks
• Implement opt-in governance, suppression logic, and compliance controls (including TCPA and channel-level consent)
• Build and manage a structured Template Library for dealership lifecycle communications, including service reminders, OEM maintenance triggers, appointment confirmations, offers, warranty notifications, and post-service follow-ups
• Convert high-performing campaigns into reusable, scalable system templates with governance standards
• Drive measurable improvements across the retention funnel (Response → Appointment → Service Completion → RO Revenue)
• Define experimentation frameworks, A/B testing protocols, and performance dashboards to optimize conversion and retention
• Partner cross-functionally with finance, operations, engineering, legal, and design teams to align messaging strategy with scheduling, loyalty, and service workflows
• Lead product readiness and expansion of Apple Business Messages and additional strategic communication channels

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of Product Management experience within SaaS, platform, or lifecycle engagement environments
• Proven experience building messaging, CRM, notification, or automation-based systems
• Strong systems thinking across APIs, automation workflows, event-driven architecture, and data modeling
• Experience operating in multi-tenant or B2B2C product environments
• Strong analytical mindset with experience in funnel metrics, experimentation, retention analytics, and performance measurement
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional execution across engineering, design, data, compliance, and operations
• Experience with messaging platforms such as Apple Business Messages, Twilio, RCS, WhatsApp, or similar is preferred
• Experience in automotive, fintech, regulated communications, or high-compliance environments is a plus

Project Coordinator

CES/AWS is looking for a Project Coordinator for our automotive manufacturing client in Arlington, TX

• Location: Arlington, TX
• Schedule: 12-hour rotating shifts (4 days on / 3 days off)

Day Shift: 8:30 AM – 8:30 PM

Night Shift: 8:30 PM – 8:30 AM

• Salary Range: $55k-$58k

Position Overview

Our client is seeking a Project Coordinator to support quality and containment projects at our Arlington, TX facility. This hands-on role is ideal for someone with strong mechanical aptitude, experience in rework or containment, and the ability to coordinate daily site activities while leading small teams.

The Project Coordinator will ensure quality standards are met, support site launches, and maintain clear communication between customers, inspectors, and internal teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and oversee on-site quality and containment operations
• Support mechanical rework activities and ensure compliance with customer and internal specifications
• Communicate with customers, supervisors, inspectors, and internal teams to maintain workflow and resolve issues
• Ensure project documentation, reports, and quality records are accurate and submitted on time
• Assist with site launches, including setup, training, and process validation
• Provide direction, coaching, and support to small teams to meet project goals
• Maintain flexibility to support overtime, weekends, or additional days as requested by the customer (GM)

Work Environment & Physical Requirements:

• Manufacturing and warehouse environment (no climate control)
• Ability to stand for extended periods and walk frequently throughout the facility

Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years of management or leadership experience
• 2+ years of experience in quality and/or containment roles
• Mechanical or rework experience required
• Engineering background or education preferred, not required
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Strong problem-solving, organization, and communication skills
• Process-driven leader with the ability to motivate and guide teams
• Flexible to work varying hours, overtime, and weekends as needed

If interested, please send your resume to

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Are you a Project Manager who enjoys seeing complex custom builds come to life—from design drawings to finished installations?

Our client, creates custom fixtures, displays and food equipment for the nation’s premier grocery, retail and restaurant brands. With over 40 years of experience in metal, millwork and refrigeration displays, they are a trusted partner in creating a unique customer experience.

Their teams design and manufacture custom store fixtures, architectural millwork, metal displays, and specialized refrigeration environments used inside supermarkets, restaurants, convenience stores, and retail spaces. These are not cookie-cutter builds—every project is unique and requires strong coordination between engineering, manufacturing, and installation teams.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can own projects end-to-end and work closely with shop teams and customers, this role offers the opportunity to make a real impact.

What You’ll Be Responsible For:

Lead Custom Manufacturing Projects

• Manage projects involving custom millwork, woodworking, fabricated metal components, and retail fixtures.
• Develop and manage project schedules using Microsoft Project to ensure successful execution.
• Coordinate activities across engineering, purchasing, manufacturing, and installation teams.

Work Directly With Customers

• Serve as the primary point of contact for customers, contractors, and project stakeholders.
• Ensure expectations, timelines, and deliverables are clearly defined and executed.
• Maintain strong customer relationships throughout the project lifecycle.

Manage Drawings, Production & Project Execution

• Coordinate engineering drawings, approvals, and production documentation.
• Ensure shop teams have the correct materials, finishes, and production specifications.
• Align manufacturing and installation teams to ensure projects stay on schedule.

Manage Project Scope & Changes

• Handle change orders, revised purchase orders, and project revisions.
• Prepare cost estimates and project quotations when required.
• Track project progress, materials usage, and labor to maintain profitability.

Drive Continuous Improvement

• Participate in post-project reviews with engineering and manufacturing teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, project execution, and cost performance.

What We’re Looking For:

We’re seeking Project Managers who understand the manufacturing side of building custom environments and physical products.

Ideal Background Includes Experience With:

• Commercial Custom millwork or woodworking manufacturing
• Commercial Architectural millwork or cabinetry

OR

• Retail fixture manufacturing
• Metal fabrication or mixed-material manufacturing
• Custom store environments or commercial interiors

Qualifications

• 2-5+ years of Project Management experience in commercial manufacturing, millwork, construction, or fabrication environments
• Experience managing projects involving commercial woodworking, millwork, cabinetry, or metal fabrication
• Experience coordinating engineering drawings, production teams, and installation crews
• Experience working directly with customers, contractors, or retail brands
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment

Technical Skills

• Experience with CAD, Microsoft Project or similar scheduling/design tools
• Ability to read engineering drawings, shop drawings, and specifications
• Experience with estimating, quoting, and project cost tracking

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Join a leading global airline as part of a growing digital transformation initiative. This new role offers the opportunity to shape the user experience across large-scale customer- and employee-facing platforms. As a Product Designer, you'll work on meaningful, high-impact projects that improve tools used every day by thousands of aviation professionals.

This is a long-term, 40-hour-per-week contract role based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, with a hybrid schedule, on-site Tuesday through Thursday. A portfolio is required for all applicants.

About the Role

You'll join a multidisciplinary UX team driving design excellence across enterprise applications. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with product owners, developers, and stakeholders to simplify complex workflows and create intuitive digital experiences. You'll have ownership from early research through delivery, defining, designing, testing, and iterating user-centered solutions that align with business goals.

What You'll Do

• Work cross-functionally in an Agile environment to define user stories and UX deliverables.
• Lead design from discovery through implementation, balancing user needs, technical constraints, and business priorities.
• Influence product decisions using UX best practices, data, and research insights.
• Present concepts and design recommendations clearly to stakeholders and leadership.
• Design interaction flows, wireframes, prototypes, and visual mockups for responsive web and mobile applications.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure solutions are both elegant and executable.
• Conduct and analyze user research through interviews, usability testing, and heuristic reviews.
• Develop and maintain documentation, navigation flows, and design systems to ensure consistency and scalability.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Computer Science, Visual Design, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5 years of UX or Product Design experience with complex web and mobile applications.
• Expert proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping tools (Adobe CC, etc.).
• Experience designing for enterprise systems, responsive/adaptive layouts, and accessible interfaces (WCAG).
• Proven ability to collaborate across distributed teams and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Experience conducting both qualitative and quantitative user research.
• Ability to communicate effectively with developers, non-technical users, and leadership.
• Strong organization, systems thinking, and attention to detail when building flows and design structures.

Why This Role

• Join a UX organization actively shaping the future of digital experience in aviation.
• Contribute to the design of large, complex applications with real operational impact.
• Collaborate with a highly skilled, cross-functional team that values creativity, research, and continuous learning.
• Enjoy a stable, long-term contract with benefits and potential for future growth.

Compensation & Benefits

• Hours: 40 hours per week
• Location: Dallas–Fort Worth Area
• Hybrid Schedule: Onsite Tuesday–Thursday (mandatory)
• Work Authorization: Must be eligible to work in the U.S. (No C2C)
• Duration: 1 year + highly likely extension/potential to conver to FTE
• Portfolio: Required for consideration
• Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k) after 60 days, plus applicable PTO and sick leave per state/local law
• Pay Range: $60–$72 per hour DOE (W2)

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by several factors, including the role's scope, complexity, and location; the cost of labor in the market; the candidate's skills, education, training, credentials, and experience; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401K contributions, as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by applicable state or localities where you reside or work.

Incumbents are fully qualified to execute job/role accountabilities working independently on most aspects of the job. Work is performed within established professional standards and practices. Tasks are moderately complex in nature where judgment is required to complete recurring assignments independently and to determine the best methods to follow to complete assignments. Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results may have a negative impact on the divisions/departments operations, schedules, and/or performance goals. Works under general Supervision. Situations not covered by standard processes, procedures and methods are referred to manager or expert resource. May demonstrate work methods to new employees. Builds internal and external relationships, with emphasis on those that facilitate the achievement of job/role accountabilities, such as relationships with key suppliers, customers and internal service.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Plans, organizes, controls and executes a production schedule for a designated product or products including program coordination.
• Develops production schedules based on actual and forecasted customer demand, product demand profiles and knowledge of the customer.
• Analyzes inputs (e.g., capacity, board cycle times, urgency of request, material availability, etc.) to help determine schedule.
• Analyzes internal impact (e.g., line scheduling, procurement, logistics, shipping, etc.) of customer scheduling.
• Ensures quality and integrity of information used to generate materials requirements plan.
• Revises plans as required based on analysis of actuals versus plan.
• Manages issues associated with engineering changes to ensure minimal cost exposure, excess materials and risk to customer shipment.
• Participates in the introduction of new products and supports the transfer/de-transfer of existing products through planning and analyzing of common and unique materials in support of project deadlines.
• Communicates information on materials availability to support build plans throughout the product life cycle.
• Maintains knowledge of customer volume fluctuations and determines the materials required.
• Provides information to procurement on demand variances.
• Develops and communicates short- and long-term commitments to customers to ship products.
• Coordinates necessary resources to meet shipment commitments.
• Reviews and reports on aggregate levels of product inventory, inventory exposure, backlog, availability and on-time delivery.
• Develops recovery plans if missed shipments occur.
• Leads continuous improvement of planning processes.
• Facilitates development of processes and best practice models for outbound order fulfillment.
• Provides leadership and support to employees of NAOF.
• Makes decisions surrounding workload allocation and hiring practices.
• Provides expert role to other sites and other departments for North American Order Fulfillment models and practices.
• Provides training, guidance and may assign work to less experienced employees.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Basic knowledge of an electronic manufacturing environment, materials and processes.
• Basic knowledge of production planning fundamentals, scheduling, materials requirements planning techniques and manufacturing control systems
• Basic knowledge of purchasing principles, techniques and philosophies.
• Knowledge of basic computer applications such as WORD, Excel, PowerPoint and multiple business applications.
• Basic understanding of customer needs.
• Good analytical and statistical skills.
• Ability to plan strategically for the coordinated build and delivery of one or several products.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.
• Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
• Occasional overnight travel may be required.

Typical Experience

• Two to Four years relevant experience

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Educational requirements may vary by geography.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Celestica's policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.

This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.

This location is a US ITAR facility and these positions will involve the release of export controlled goods either directly to employees or through the employee's movement within the facility. As such, Celestica will require necessary information from all applicants upon an applicant's acceptance of employment to determine if any export control exemptions or licenses must be filed.

Ikon Technologies builds dealer-first software and hardware that helps dealerships operate with less friction and retain customers long after the sale—through lot management, connected vehicle / telematics systems, and smart marketing.

Our mission is to revolutionize automotive selling, buying, and ownership through a superior connected vehicle experience. Headquartered in Arlington, TX, Ikon has reached a major milestone: ~1 million vehicles protected/installed as of December 2, 2025.

Build the product platform powering -1 million connected vehicles—turning telematics, dealer-branded mobile experiences, and data into measurable dealership revenue and increased customer lifetime value. This is staff-level ownership at real-world scale.

We are hiring a Staff Product Manager to own and evolve Ikon’s Connected Vehicle Platform—the system that connects vehicles, dealers, and drivers through installed telematics, data products, and a dealer-branded mobile experience. This is a senior individual contributor role for a product leader who operates like a GM of a platform area: setting strategy, aligning executive stakeholders, driving difficult tradeoffs with engineering, and delivering measurable improvements in adoption and revenue.

If you’ve built platform products at companies like Stripe, Twilio, or other large-scale tech environments—and want deeper end-to-end ownership in a platform that spans hardware, vehicles, data, and mobile—this role is designed for you.

What You’ll Own

Ikon’s platform sits at the intersection of:

• Telematics / IoT vehicle signals and privacy-aware data flows
• Dealer-branded connected car mobile experiences
• Lifecycle engagement and service retention
• Dealer operational outcomes and customer lifetime value

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap for the Connected Vehicle Platform, grounded in measurable business outcomes
• Lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, design, data, support, sales/GTM, and executive stakeholders
• Own platform capabilities such as APIs, event flows, instrumentation, observability, data quality, privacy-by-design, and system reliability expectations
• Define success metrics and build instrumentation plans to measure adoption, retention, and revenue impact
• Conduct dealership and end-user discovery to validate needs and refine product direction
• Influence go-to-market strategy including packaging, positioning, and launch plans
• Drive execution excellence: write high-quality PRDs, prioritize effectively, manage tradeoffs, and deliver iterative, measurable outcomes

Must-Have Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience (or equivalent technical/product leadership) with ownership of complex products from concept through launch
• Demonstrated success leading multi-team initiatives in ambiguous environments, influencing technical roadmaps, and aligning senior stakeholders
• Strong technical fluency with APIs, event-driven systems, data flows, system performance, reliability, and instrumentation
• Proven data-driven product approach with experience defining KPIs, owning dashboards, and making prioritization decisions based on measurable impact
• Experience building B2B products and/or platform ecosystems (APIs, internal platforms, developer experience)
• Experience with IoT, telematics, or connected device ecosystems (hardware + software + data integration)
• Experience with mobile product experiences and lifecycle engagement loops (notifications, retention, reminders, etc.)
• Experience working with privacy, consent, and sensitive data (e.g., location or regulated data environments)
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to create structured narratives and executive-ready documentation
• Automotive retail or dealership ecosystem experience (DMS, service retention, F&I workflows) is helpful but not required