Mechanical Lead Engineer

The Mechanical Lead Engineer manages all engineering activities of a project related to Mechanical Design in order to ensure that relevant deliverables are in time, scope, quality and budget and adhere to established standards. The Mechanical Lead Engineer estimates and manages mechanical engineering-related project risks, he owns the related planning and scheduling and acts as point of contact for mechanical engineering. The Mechanical Lead Engineer functionally reports to the Project Manager in the respective projects or, if appointed, to a Project Lead Engineer. In addition, the role will be involved in full cycle of the project from sales through engineering up to hand over.

What we offer:

• Career Development
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits
• Pay Transparency
• Global Opportunities

Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer/

Tasks and Qualifications:

General Responsibilities

• Identify improvements to engineering process and preparing supporting documentation

Project Readiness

• Supporting Sales team during sales phase by providing technical advice, supporting estimation effort, project schedule creation and understanding of required engineering skill set​
• Review As sold solution

Project Management

• Ensure that we have resources from Mechanical Engineering Team with the right skill set in order to execute the project 
• Acting as main Mechanical Engineering point of contact for Project Manager, Site manager, Procurement, Manufacturing as well as client architect, builder and design consultants
• Leading project Mechanical Engineering teams through task allocation and reporting
• Creating and updating Mechanical Engineering project status reports, financial forecasts, and schedule updates (resources updates), ensuring Mechanical Engineering cost control
• Documenting, escalating and managing Mechanical Engineering project risks (also preparation of Project Status Report) / Project Variance Request) )
• Ensure all project Quality Gates are met for Mechanical Engineering
• Conducting regular on-site safety audits when visiting a site and advising on any special installation requirements; deriving actions
• Identifying and proposing Lean improvements
• Supporting lessons learned sessions and project closing

On time, in quality delivery of key deliverables

• Ensuring that Bill of Materials) and project procurement plan for Mechanical Engineering products has been done and ordered 
• Checking and approving specifications for purchase items/services
• Ensuring quality of all necessary documentation to execute mechanical installation on site has been provided on time
• Manage Completion of Design Risk Assessment and Safety design validation during mechanical design stage
• Ensuring delivery of key deliverables i.e. basic Layout, 3rd Party specs., List of static and dynamic loads, layout drawings, Hazzard assessment
• Ensuring that check list for the mechanical installation has been done and site is ready for next phase which is electrical installation 
• Ensuring the correct transmittal of all Mechanical Engineering Deliverables to the Customer i.e. layout drawings
• Ensuring the right technical information has been provided for the Customer Service training
• Ensuring project technical documentation is completed
• Identifying improvements to engineering process and preparing supporting documentation

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Essential:  Degree level of understanding in a technical Engineering discipline.
• Desirable: Understanding / Qualification in Machinery Safety
• Experience in a similar role is desirable.
  • 5+ years hands on experience working within an industrial automation environment.
  • Experience leading project teams on complex projects
  • A working understanding of technical manuals & drawings, Mechanical/Electrical
  • Working knowledge of ISO standards governing the automated warehouse industry
• Travel approx. 15% (depends on the stage of the project) within EMEA

Personal Attributes:

• Good communication and English skills
• Organisational and Quality Orientation
• Effective and team oriented working style
• Being proactive

Other Skills & Abilities:

• Understanding of MS Project, JIRA, and other project management tools
• Ability to make design decisions on a project
• Understand and use relevant design requirements such as the Machinery Directive and its harmonised standards
• Demonstrates a high passion and drive
• Ambitious and willing to go the extra mile
• Takes responsibility
• Demonstrates courage
• Promotes change
• Learns quickly
• Demonstrates situational sensitivity