Team Leadership & People Management

• Hire, onboard, and develop the Project Mechanical Engineering team
• Set individual and team goals; conduct performance reviews, provide coaching, and manage career development plans.
• Allocate engineering resources and workload across concurrent customer programs based on priority, capacity, and skill fit.
• Foster a collaborative, safety-first team culture and resolve interpersonal or cross-functional conflicts as needed.
• Own recruiting requisitions, interview panels, and hiring decisions for open team positions.
• Mentor engineers on design methodology, tools (SolidWorks), documentation standards, and industry best practices.

Program & Project Oversight

• This Team focuses on quick turnaround change kits that interface our thermal forcing systems to customers semiconductor devices and PCB’s. Standard design time for a kit is 1-2weeks from requirements review to release. It is common to have 10-20 running projects at a time for several different customers. Therefore, good organizational skills and an efficient design and review methodology is required.
• Interface with customers, Sales and Production departments to determine and prioritize design requirements across multiple concurrent projects.
• Review and approve customer drawings, CAD models, and design change requests before release to the team.
• Oversee design of change kits, custom thermal forcing systems, racks, gantry, and enclosure products, ensuring designs meet cost, schedule, and performance targets.
• Lead and facilitate design reviews internally and with Customers, Production & Sales departments.
• Ensure the team maintains accurate BOMs, Operation and maintenance manuals, and design calculations for initial design and production.
• Coordinate with the project coordinator to track project schedules, deliverables, and open action items across the team's programs.
• Escalate and resolve technical, schedule, or resource risks with the Director of Engineering and cross-functional stakeholders.

Technical Engineering Oversight

• Perform design reviews on all projects before release. Create checklists and guidelines, mentor the team to maintain consistency, quality and efficiency of engineering output
• Perform mechanical design for key developments as needed such as, new architectures, new design concepts or improvements, or key customer designs.
• Guide the team through feasibility studies, risk assessments, cost analyses, and FMEA to ensure designs are safe and economical.
• Support the production dept. with development of instructions, processes, and troubleshooting of nonconforming products.
• Approve engineering change orders generated by the team.
• Ensure adherence to ASME and internal drafting/documentation standards across all team output.
• Stay current on emerging technologies, materials, and manufacturing processes relevant to mechanical and electrical design, and introduce improvements to team practices.
• Participate in customer and vendor site visits at critical project stages as needed.
• Proactively engage in and promote all aspects of the company safety program.
• Travel up to 20%.

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