Building Systems Engineer(Constructability & Design-for-Assembly)

This person owns one question: how do we make our houses go together as simply as possible, with the least fiddling in the field?

You’ll live at the intersection of product design, shop production, and field installation. Your job is to study how our system actually performs once it leaves the building — what slows the crews down, what gets cut or shimmed on site, what comes back as rework — and then re-engineer the parts, connections, and sequences so the next house is cleaner than the last. Critically, you model your own solutions: you’ll take what you observe in the field straight into Revit and produce the improved, buildable detail yourself. You’re equally comfortable in the shop, on a job site, and at a workstation in Revit.

This is a continuous-improvement engineering role. Success looks like fewer field hours per house, fewer site-fabricated workarounds, and panels and pods that drop into place the way they were drawn.

• Own constructability and design-for-assembly across the Howmz product system — panels, pods, connections, and the sequence they go together in.
• Spend real time on active job sites and in the shop, watching installs and documenting where crews lose time, fight fit-up, or improvise solutions the design should have provided.
• Run a structured feedback loop: capture field and shop issues, prioritize them by impact, design the fix, implement it, and verify it actually worked on the next build.
• Develop and standardize connection details, fastening systems, and panel/pod interfaces that reduce part count, eliminate on-site cutting and fitting, and shift labor from the field into the controlled shop environment wherever it makes sense.
• Manage dimensional tolerances and stack-up across the system so light-gauge steel components arrive and fit as designed — this is where panelized builds live or die.
• Design jigs, fixtures, templates, and install aids that make the right way the easy way for the crews.
• Own building-envelope continuity at panel and pod interfaces — air, water, and thermal control across joints, flashing details, and minimizing thermal bridging through the steel framing.
• Work hand-in-hand with our on-site installation team — they are your primary source of truth on what’s actually slowing builds down, and your closest partner in proving a fix works. Their problems drive your priorities.
• Produce and maintain clear assembly documentation and installation guides directly in Revit, and coordinate detailing with shop production and the install crews.
• Partner closely with Product Development on design intent, Shop Operations on what’s actually buildable, and Software Engineering on how our design and production system captures and enforces these standards.

• “The crews are shimming this panel-to-floor connection on every house.” Find the root cause and design it out.
• “We’re cutting and patching this opening on site instead of building it in the shop.” Move it upstream into a controlled environment.
• “This pod-to-wall interface leaks air and is a pain to seal.” Re-detail it so it’s both tight and fast.
• “Three different crews assemble this corner three different ways.” Standardize it and build the jig that makes it automatic.

• Strong Revit modeling skills. This is non-negotiable: you won’t be handing concepts to a drafter — you’ll model your own improvements, detail your own connections, and produce buildable documentation directly. We model everything in Revit.
• A genuine engineering foundation — whether that came from a degree or from years of building and detailing real structures. We care that you can design a sound solution, not where you learned it.
• Real field construction experience. You’ve been on a job site, you understand the gap between a drawing and reality, and crews trust your judgment. Someone who came up building and then moved into Revit modeling is a great fit for this role.
• A problem-solving, continuous-improvement instinct — you naturally look at a process and see the wasted motion.
• Comfort working in both a manufacturing shop and on active job sites.

• Engineering degree — structural, civil, mechanical, or architectural.
• Light-gauge / cold-formed steel framing experience.
• Design-for-Manufacture-and-Assembly (DfMA) or lean manufacturing exposure.
• Familiarity with building envelope detailing and energy-code performance (air/water/thermal barriers, thermal bridging).
• Experience with panelized, modular, or off-site construction.
• Background working alongside production teams to standardize and document repeatable processes.

Within the first year, this role should measurably reduce installation labor hours per house, cut the rate of on-site rework and field-fabricated workarounds, and raise first-time fit-up across our panels and pods. You’ll have built a working feedback loop between the field, the shop, and design — so that every house we build teaches the system how to build the next one better.