Team Lead, Mechanical Design
As a Team Lead, Mechanical Design, you provide front-line leadership, coaching, workload visibility, and technical execution support for assigned designers. You help translate department priorities into clear day-to-day execution, ensuring technical issues, workload constraints, and support needs are visible early enough to keep design work moving with quality and confidence.
What You’ll Be Doing
This role combines three expectations: first-line people support, technical delivery leadership, and group-level workload visibility. The responsibilities below describe the daily responsibilities tied to those expectations.
Team Direction & Work Clarity
\- Give designers clear priorities, expectations, and technical direction so assigned work moves with minimal confusion.
\- Communicate decisions, trade-offs, and risks clearly so project participants stay aligned.
Group Leadership, Coaching & Load Visibility
\- Provide first-line leadership through regular 1:1s, workload visibility, coaching, and performance input to the Mechanical Design Manager.
\- Identify workload constraints, support needs, and capacity risks early enough to inform resourcing and priority decisions.
Technical Execution & Delivery
\- Own day-to-day technical execution for assigned mechanical design work, keeping scope, schedule, quality, safety, manufacturability, and customer requirements on track.
\- Resolve technical issues early and guide key design decisions from concept through integration and customer acceptance.
Cross-Functional Delivery Support
\- Partner with Applications Engineering, Manufacturing, Assembly, Integration, and customer-facing teams where technical clarity or execution confidence is needed.
\- Identify proposal, scope, readiness, and build risks early so downstream teams are not surprised.
Technical Quality & Problem Solving
\- Reinforce sound engineering judgment through design reviews, safety assessments, compliance awareness, and practical problem-solving.
\- Recommend improvements that strengthen design quality, efficiency, and de...
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