Senior Design Engineer - Hospitality

Senior Design Engineer | Hospitality Outform Hospitality partners with leading hotel brands, developers, operators, architects, designers, and ownership groups to deliver premium hospitality environments across the globe. Through integrated capabilities in strategy, design, engineering, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, technology, and installation, we provide end-to-end project delivery from concept through completion. Our collaborative delivery model bridges creativity with execution, ensuring exceptional client experiences while maintaining schedule certainty, budget discipline, and uncompromising quality. The Sr. Design Engineer – Hospitality is a highly skilled, hands-on engineering role responsible for transforming high-end architectural concepts into production-ready manufacturing packages. This position bridges the gap between interior design intent and industrial factory execution—modeling, engineering, and detailing custom architectural millwork, ornamental metals, custom lighting, solid surfaces, and loose/fixed FF&E to luxury brand standards, ensuring all designs are optimized for structural integrity, cost, manufacturability, and site installation. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports. The Sr. Design Engineer owns the technical translation of design intent into buildable, cost-effective manufacturing packages for luxury hospitality programs. Accountability spans the full engineering lifecycle: interrogating Architect of Record (AOR) drawings and interior design specifications, building parametric 3D models, issuing shop drawing and submittal packages for client sign-off, and releasing accurate Bills of Materials to the factory floor. The role is accountable for design-for-manufacturing outcomes—material yield, joinery and connection methods, tolerances, and structural load performance—so that packages release to production with minimal rework and install cleanly in the field. The position also carries technical ownership of mockups and first-article prototypes, provides direct support to plant supervisors and CNC programmers during production — primarily remotely, with targeted on-site visits at critical milestones — and resolves unexpected field conditions with installation crews. Working across multiple concurrent hospitality projects, the Sr. Design Engineer is expected to operate independently with limited supervision, contribute to shared detailing standards and best practices, and serve as the senior technical authority on multi-material scopes including millwork, ornamental metals, custom lighting, stone and solid surfaces, and FF&E.Technical Design, 3D Modeling & CAD LeadershipCAD Mastery & 3D Modeling: Build, structure, and maintain complex parametric 3D models, assemblies, flat patterns, and production blueprints using SolidWorks (Revit knowledge a plus).BIM & Spatial Coordination: Extract, review, and integrate architectural data from client Revit (BIM) files to ensure zero spatial conflicts with building infrastructure and existing field conditions. Drawing Package Creation: Generate comprehensive shop drawing packages, submittal sets, assembly drawings, section details, and cut lists for factory floor production and client sign-off. BOM Generation: Develop and maintain accurate Bills of Materials (BOMs), hardware callouts, and fastener specifications within ERP systems. Value Engineering & Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Manufacturability Optimization: Analyze Architect of Record (AOR) drawings and interior design specifications to identify DFM opportunities that reduce material yield waste, lead times, and labor costs. Material & Structural Solutions: Recommend alternative materials, joinery methods, modular construction techniques, and hardware solutions that preserve design intent while improving durability and ease of installation. Cost & Tolerance Optimization: Establish precise manufacturing tolerances and structural load calculations that meet commercial hospitality safety requirements while protecting project margins. Trade-Specific & Material Engineering Architectural Millwork: Detail custom joinery, veneer flitch matching, substrate stabilization, CNC routing files, and integration of mechanical systems. Ornamental Metals: Engineer structural frames, sheet metal layouts, weldments, laser/waterjet cut profiles, and high-end finishes (PVD, powder coat, patina) for brass, stainless steel, and bronze. Custom Lighting: Integrate drivers, transformers, LED channels, wiring pathways, and structural mounting while ensuring compliance with UL/CE safety standards. Countertops & Solid Surfaces: Detail nesting, seam placement, substrate bracing, and book-matching for natural stone, quartz, and acrylic surfaces. Loose & Fixed FF&E: Engineer internal structural frames for casegoods, commercial upholstery foundations, and integrated technology (wireless chargers, power modules).Prototyping, Factory & Field Support Mockups & Prototypes: Lead the engineering and technical review of initial room mockups and first-article inspections (FAI), incorporating client feedback into final production releases. Factory Floor Support: Work directly with plant supervisors, CNC programmers, craftspeople, and assembly teams — on site and remotely via video, photo, and drawing markup — to resolve technical questions during production. Installation & Field Coordination: Design custom protective crating layouts, engineer installer-friendly connection details, and provide technical support to field crews during site installation — remotely or on site as conditions require — to resolve unexpected field conditions. Key Interfaces (Non-Reporting) Project Management / Program Delivery – Align engineering releases with project schedules, submittal deadlines, and installation windows. Estimating & Procurement – Provide BOMs, material specifications, and value-engineering alternates to support pricing and long-lead buyouts. Manufacturing & Plant Operations – Partner with plant supervisors, CNC programmers, fabricators, and assembly teams on producibility and production issue resolution. Quality & Prototyping – Coordinate mockup builds, first-article inspections, and finish approvals. Logistics & Installation Teams – Coordinate crating design, shipping protection, and installer-friendly connection details; support field crews on site. Clients, Architects of Record, Interior Designers & Ownership Groups – Review design intent, submittals, and technical clarifications on behalf of Outform. Vendors & Specialty Fabricators – Resolve technical detailing, hardware, lighting components, and finish specifications. Key Performance Indicators On-time release of shop drawing and submittal packages against project milestone dates. First-pass client/AOR submittal approval rate (target: minimal resubmittal cycles).Engineering-driven rework, RFI, and change-order rate as a percentage of project value. BOM accuracy at release to production (quantity, hardware, and material callouts).Material yield and value-engineering savings captured per project versus original design basis. Field installation issues attributable to engineering detailing per project. Mockup and first-article approval cycle time. Response time on technical queries from plant and field teams during active production.