Team Lead – Engineering Standards

Main responsibilities and tasks:

The Team Leader – Engineering Standards is responsible for developing, governing, and continuously improving company-wide engineering standards, specifications, procedures, design guidelines, calculation methods, and technical templates. The role leads a team of mechanical engineers and serves as the focal point for standardization initiatives aimed at improving engineering quality, consistency, efficiency, compliance, and scalability across the organization.

Engineering Standards Management

• Own the complete lifecycle management of engineering standards, specifications, procedures, guidelines, document templates, and calculation templates.
• Establish governance processes for creation, review, approval, release, revision, and retirement of controlled technical documents.
• Ensure consistency and alignment across standards, specifications, procedures, drawings, templates, and related engineering documentation.
• Maintain accurate document cross-references and change histories.
• Ability to simplify complex technical knowledge into clear, usable and auditable standards. 
• Interpret and apply relevant international standards, including ASME, ASTM, API, NACE and ISO, and translate their requirements into practical internal engineering guidance. 
• Develop technical documents covering material selection, assembly procedures, mitigation plans, casting and machining defect resolution, and acceptance criteria for cast, forged and machined parts. 
• Create and maintain operating manuals, standard operating procedures, technical guidelines and pressure-testing requirements for rotating-equipment parts and assemblies. 
• Review parts, part drawings and assembly drawings of mechanical equipment, with particular focus on rotating equipment, for technical correctness, standardization opportunities and usability. 
• Detailed experience in preparing calculation\ design tools.
• Standardize workflows, processes, materials, machine components, document structures and calculation methods to improve quality, repeatability, lead time and engineering efficiency. 
• Maintain accurate document cross-references and ensure consistency among standards, specifications, procedures, drawings, templates and related controlled documents. 
• Coordinate with Sales, Engineering Design, Production, Machine Shop, Assembly, Procurement, Quality, Testing and Field Service to gather requirements and implement practical standards. 
• Exchange experience and lessons learned with SERV, Operational Excellence, Contracting and Workshop, and convert relevant learning into improved standards and guidance. 

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and develop a team of qualified mechanical engineers responsible for standards development and maintenance.
• Allocate work, provide technical guidance, mentor team members, and ensure competency development.
• Review technical deliverables and ensure timely completion of assignments with high-quality standards.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, and knowledge sharing.
• Plan and coordinate standards projects, define milestones, monitor progress and risks, and ensure compliance with agreed schedules and deadlines. 

Education, Experience and Languages:

• Graduate in Mechanical engineering.
• 10+ years of industrial experience preferably in rotating equipment.
• Experience with ERP systems preferably SAP.
• Experience in Siemens UGNX or Similar 3D modelling tool.
• Proficiency in English language and knowledge of German language will be an added advantage.

Burckhardt Compression creates leading compression solutions for a sustainable energy future and the long-term success of its customers. The Group is the only global manufacturer that covers a full range of reciprocating compressor technologies and services. Since 1844, its passionate, customer-oriented and solution-driven workforce has set the benchmark in the gas compression industry.