Manager, Engineering & Design

Department: Operations

Location: Milton, ON

Salary: $142,500 - $159,000 CAD

Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package that includes Health, Dental, Vision, and a full pension plan.

Vacancy Status Disclosure: Permanent Full-time (Replacement)

AI Statement: Carmeuse does not use artificial intelligence (AI) to screen, assess, or select applicants.

Typical hours: 37.5 hour work week - hours vary due to work. Additional hours may be required

Travel is required to the United States

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Develop and execute the Engineering & Design Department strategic roadmap aligned with company objectives, growth initiatives, and operational excellence goals.
• Accountable for departmental financial performance including resource utilization, forecasting, budgeting, and profitability targets (Gross Margin performance).
• Conduct talent reviews, succession planning, performance evaluations, and development planning to ensure organizational capability and leadership pipeline strength.
• Establish clear performance expectations, conduct regular coaching conversations, and drive accountability for individual and team performance outcomes.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and psychological safety that supports employee engagement and retention.
• Serve as the department’s technical authority, providing guidance and making or endorsing decisions on complex, multidisciplinary engineering and design matters across mechanical, design, and process.
• Ensure the technical integrity, safety, quality, and constructability of engineering deliverables by establishing and enforcing design criteria, codes, standards, calculations, validation and verification practices, technical reviews, and timely resolution or escalation of technical risks.
• Consulting and negotiating with active clients to, explain proposals for change and present engineering reports and findings
• Attend client meetings, and project review meetings as needed to support work in progress. · Assigning, co-ordinating and reviewing the work within the department.
• Overseeing document & drawing reviews, specification reviews
• Liaising with relevant professional staff, including engineers, fabricators, contractors, and other regulatory bodies.
• Ensuring that the product is fully and correctly defined and documented ·
• Vendor evaluation
• Lead organizational change initiatives, establish engineering & design best practices/processes, and promote adoption of new systems, tools, and business processes to improve operational effectiveness.
• Elevate risks as required, to the company Operations Director, affecting project performance.
• Understand the status of all project schedules and deliverable milestones at a high level.
• Report customer complaints to Quality Manager & other Managers as deemed appropriate.
• Ensure adherence to the Carmeuse Systems Quality Management System
• Ensure and enforce compliance to all company, client and legislated safety policies and procedures
• Any additional duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.
• Complying to ISO 9001 requirements, reviewing and updating processes on a yearly basis.

Job Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years’ managing people
• 5-10 years related experience as an Engineer
• Experience Leading teams of direct reports in a hybrid work environment across multiple locations.
• Strategic Thinker
• Strong in business acumen, change management, and conflict resolution.
• Bachelor of Engineering, (mechanical preferred) Professional Engineer an asset
• Analytical, problem solver with practical approach
• High attention to detail, combined with strong ability to see the big picture
• Strong technical understanding of engineering systems and processes
• Effective delegation/distribution of workload; professional development/growth of team members
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Knowledge of CAD, 3D modelling software (Solidworks), and project/scheduling software
• Strong communication skills
• Approachable