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, owns the related planning and scheduling and acts as the 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 the full cycle of the project from sales through engineering up to handover.
We offer:
1. Career Development
2. Competitive Compensation and Benefits
3. Pay Transparency
4. Global Opportunities
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Tasks and Qualifications:
General Responsibilities:
5. Identify improvements to engineering process and preparing supporting documentation
6. Project Readiness
7. Supporting Sales team during sales phase by providing technical advice, supporting estimation effort, project schedule creation and understanding of required engineering skill set
8. Review As sold solution
Project Management:
9. Ensure that we have resources from Mechanical Engineering Team with the right skill set in order to execute the project
10. Acting as main Mechanical Engineering point of contact for Project Manager, Site manager, Procurement, Manufacturing as well as client architect, builder and design consultants
11. Leading project Mechanical Engineering teams through task allocation and reporting
12. Creating and updating Mechanical Engineering project status reports, financial forecasts, and schedule updates (resources updates), ensuring Mechanical Engineering cost control
13. Documenting, escalating and managing Mechanical Engineering project risks (also preparation of Project Status Report) / Project Variance Request) )
14. Ensure all project Quality Gates are met for Mechanical Engineering
15. Conducting regular on-site safety audits when visiting a site and advising on any special installation requirements; deriving actions
16. Identifying and proposing Lean improvements
17. Supporting lessons learned sessions and project closing
18. Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to interface directly with Amazon Engineering, Construction, RME and external consultants, representing Dematic as a technical authority.
19. High ownership mindset: ability to proactively identify risks, drive mitigation plans, and escalate early in a customer-facing, zero-surprise environment
20. Demonstrated ability to work under high delivery pressure, compressed timelines and frequent scope changes, while maintaining engineering quality and cost control
On time, in quality delivery of key deliverables:
21. Ensuring that Bill of Materials) and project procurement plan for Mechanical Engineering products has been done and ordered
22. Checking and approving specifications for purchase items/services
23. Ensuring quality of all necessary documentation to execute mechanical installation on site has been provided on time
24. Manage Completion of Design Risk Assessment and Safety design validation during mechanical design stage
25. Ensuring delivery of key deliverables i.e. basic Layout, 3rd Party specs., List of static and dynamic loads, layout drawings, Hazzard assessment
26. Ensuring that check list for the mechanical installation has been done and site is ready for next phase which is electrical installation
27. Ensuring the correct transmittal of all Mechanical Engineering Deliverables to the Customer i.e. layout drawings
28. Ensuring the right technical information has been provided for the Customer Service training
29. Ensuring project technical documentation is completed
30. Identifying improvements to engineering process and preparing supporting documentation
Skills & Capabilities
31. 5+ years hands on experience working within an industrial automation environment.
32. Experience leading project teams on complex projects
33. A working understanding of technical manuals & drawings, Mechanical/Electrical
34. Working knowledge of ISO standards governing the automated warehouse industry
35. Understanding of MS Project, JIRA, Excel and other project management tools
36. Ability to make design decisions on a project
37. Understand and use relevant design requirements such as the Machinery Directive and its harmonized standards
38. knowledge in Mechanical Conveyor Systems (MCS), with proven capability to challenge designs, validate concepts, and drive technically sound decisions under delivery pressure.
39. Strong understanding mechanical standards, design expectations and installation constraints, and ability to translate them into executable engineering solutions.
40. Ability to independently manage complex mechanical scopes, coordinate interfaces with Controls, Structures and Installation, and ensure full alignment with Amazon milestones and approval cycles.
Education & Certifications:
41. Essential: Degree level of understanding in a technical Engineering discipline.
42. Desirable: Understanding / Qualification in Machinery Safety
Travel approx. 15% (depending on the stage of the project) within EMEA will be required as part of the role.