Senior Technical Manager – Architectural Millwork
About this position
Are you the person everyone turns to when a difficult millwork project needs to be figured out?

We’re looking for an experienced architectural millwork professional to take on a senior technical leadership role within an established engineering department.

This is not a traditional management position focused primarily on budgets, schedules, and performance reviews. The focus is technical leadership, mentorship, constructability, engineering standards, and manufacturing excellence.

You’ll work with and mentor a team of approximately 20 engineers and detailers, helping improve how complex millwork projects are engineered before they reach production.

What You’ll Be Doing

Mentor and develop engineers and detailers

Review complex shop drawings before release to manufacturing

Identify constructability and design issues before they become production problems

Review materials, hardware, joinery, dimensions, tolerances, and fabrication methods

Establish and improve engineering and drawing standards

Reduce manufacturing errors and costly rework

Work closely with Production, CNC, Manufacturing, Installation, and Project Management

Support value engineering and continuous improvement initiatives

Help improve communication between Engineering and Production

Lead the department’s transition to Microvellum and develop improved engineering workflows

What We’re Looking For
You may currently be working as a Senior Detailer, Engineering Lead, Technical Designer, Project Manager, Production Manager, Senior Cabinetmaker, or in another senior technical millwork position.





10+ years of custom architectural millwork experience

Strong knowledge of millwork manufacturing and constructability

Experience producing or reviewing fabrication-ready shop drawings

Advanced AutoCAD skills

Experience solving complex detailing and production challenges

Experience mentoring engineers, detailers, or other technical professionals

Strong understanding of materials, hardware, joinery, tolerances, and fabrication methods

Microvellum experience is an asset; the ability and interest to lead its implementation is equally significant

Who Will Excel in This Role?
Someone who doesn't simply identify a problem on a drawing—you understand why it happened and how to prevent it from happening again.

You enjoy sharing your knowledge, developing people, and improving engineering processes.

Most importantly, you understand that great millwork engineering isn't just about producing a good drawing. It's about producing accurate, constructible information that allows the project to be manufactured efficiently, installed successfully, and built right the first time.

Base salary: $85,000–$105,000 , with flexibility for an exceptional candidate

Benefits

Permanent, full-time position

Senior technical leadership opportunity

Significant influence over engineering standards and processes

Opportunity to help shape the future of an expanding engineering department

If you've spent your career solving difficult architectural millwork problems and are ready to use that experience to develop people, improve engineering, and make an impact across an entire department, we'd like to hear from you.

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📌 Senior Technical Manager – Architectural Millwork (Ontario)
🏢 Cain & Associates
📍 Ontario