BW Converting Solutions is looking for a Mechanical Engineering Team Leader to lead a team of mechanical engineers and drafters, and to guide multidisciplinary engineering teams on projects related to sold work, sustaining engineering, or new product development (NPD). The goal is to ensure efficient project execution, timely delivery of milestones, and the development of high-performance converting and packaging machinery.
Requirements
- Skilled in CAD (preferably SolidWorks), ERP systems, and proficient in Microsoft 365+ and PC’s
- Experience with Flexo or CI equipment.
- Knowledge of safety and other applicable country-based standards (CE, UL, CSA, etc.)
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of products in close coordination with product management
- Lead end-to-end projects from concept, through prototype, to 100% ready-to-use products that meet customer requirements by implementing the BW stage-gate process
- Ensure projects are run efficiently, delivering milestones on time and on budget
- Use new and existing tools, processes, and AI to support development processes
- Ensure engineering projects are fully documented. Allowing operation, internal sales to function efficiently, and providing data for manuals and spare part catalogs.
- Promote an environment of modular development, DFM, and producing designs from a standard parts catalog
- Identify technological trends and ensure we continue to recruit new skills as necessary
Other
- Lead and mentor a mechanical engineering team, where daily duties and priorities of that team are set by leaders of NPD, Sustaining, and Sold Work
- Coordinate, plan, and distribute team resources related to prioritized requests in agreement with the Director of US Mechanical Engineering, directed by NPD, Sustaining, and Sold work leaders
- Responsible for engineers’ professional development, cultivating strength while optimizing weakness, and continually growing engineers’ skills in consideration of diverse cultural backgrounds with the goal of creating a strong, motivated, and balanced team
- Ensuring that the team has adequate skills redundancy and every member is part of a robust succession plan
- An ambassador of cultural collaboration, innovation, and ensuring accountability across engineering
- Collaborate with the leadership team to define team and individual goals, celebrating success and promoting individual recognition
- An entrepreneurial thinker who is solution-oriented, biased for action, and has strong communication skills
- Willingness to travel internationally if necessary to customer or manufacturing sites as needed
- Fluent in English and German, spoken and written preferred
- 5+ years progressive mechanical engineering experience and 3+ years in people-focused leadership roles for mechanical engineering
- Experience working with Operations, Software/Electrical Engineering teams, and Service departments.
