Product Manager, Custom Engineering Applications

The Product Manager will oversee the strategic ownership, evolution, and performance of Black & Veatch's portfolio of custom-built and hybrid engineering applications used internally by engineering professionals. This onsite role is based in Overland Park, Kansas, and requires a minimum of seven years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the ongoing sustainability, operations, and functionality of custom, customized, and COTS-adjacent engineering applications across their full lifecycle
• Establish authoritative visibility and control over the portfolio
• Ensure applications remain reliable and performant, accounting for software version changes, data integrity, and updated business needs
• Make informed decisions related to data structures, data flow, 2D/3D model manipulation and upstream/downstream integrations
• Proactively manage technical debt, vendor dependencies, and platform constraints
• Partner closely with architecture, platform engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure product roadmaps explicitly include investments that improve security posture and compliance
• Partner closely with architecture, platform engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure product roadmaps explicitly include investments that improve system reliability, resilience, and maintainability
• Partner closely with architecture, platform engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure product roadmaps explicitly include investments that improve scalability and performance aligned to future demand
• Balance near-term feature delivery with intentional investment in foundational quality as required by DPOM's Secure, Resilient & Scalable principle
• Define and own product success metrics aligned to the DPOM Success Metrics & Governance framework
• Establish regular operating rhythms (weekly business reviews, portfolio reviews, roadmap checkpoints) where metrics drive decisions
• Create a culture where progress, performance, and trade-offs are visible, trusted, and continuously refined, reinforcing accountability across teams
• Act as the single-threaded owner for assigned products and portfolio segments, coordinating across engineering, UX, architecture, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders
• Coach teams and partners in adopting a product mindset, reinforcing DPOM behaviors and expectations throughout the lifecycle

Requirements

• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include criminal/civil background checks, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with applicable laws and regulations
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience

Technologies

• Autodesk
• Bentley/ProjectWise
• SmartPlant

Benefits

• Health care benefits including medical, dental and vision insurances along with disability
• Company-matched 401k plan
• Adoption reimbursement
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vendor discounts
• Employment referral program
• AD&D insurance
• Pre-taxed accounts
• Voluntary legal plan
• B&V Credit Union
• Performance-based bonus program
• 100% ESOP-owned company; employee-owners share in the long-term success through stock ownership
• Flexible work schedules
• Paid vacation and holiday time
• Sick time
• Dependent sick time

Details

• Location: Overland Park, KS, US
• Posting date: Jul 2, 2026
• Company: Black & Veatch Family of Companies; Black & Veatch Corporation
• Req ID: 115778
• Opportunity type: Staff
• Relocation eligible: No
• Full time / Part time: Full-Time
• Visa sponsorship available: No
• Salary plan: ITS: Information Technology Service
• Job grade: 017
• Nearest major market: Olathe
• Nearest secondary market: Kansas City