Mechanical Lead Engineer

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• Competitive Compensation and Benefits

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• Global Opportunities

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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
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to interface directly with Amazon Engineering, Construction, RME and external consultants, representing Dematic as a technical authority.
• High ownership mindset: ability to proactively identify risks, drive mitigation plans, and escalate early in a customer-facing, zero-surprise environment
• 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:

• 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

Skills & Capabilities

• 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
• Understanding of MS Project, JIRA, Excel 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 harmonized standards
• knowledge in Mechanical Conveyor Systems (MCS), with proven capability to challenge designs, validate concepts, and drive technically sound decisions under delivery pressure.
• Strong understanding mechanical standards, design expectations and installation constraints, and ability to translate them into executable engineering solutions.
• 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:

• Essential:  Degree level of understanding in a technical Engineering discipline.
• 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.