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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.\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nThis 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.\nTeam Direction & Work Clarity\nGive designers clear priorities, expectations, and technical direction so assigned work moves with minimal confusion.\nCommunicate decisions, trade-offs, and risks clearly so project participants stay aligned.\nGroup Leadership, Coaching & Load Visibility\nProvide first-line leadership through regular 1:1s, workload visibility, coaching, and performance input to the Mechanical Design Manager.\nIdentify workload constraints, support needs, and capacity risks early enough to inform resourcing and priority decisions.\nTechnical Execution & Delivery\nOwn day-to-day technical execution for assigned mechanical design work, keeping scope, schedule, quality, safety, manufacturability, and customer requirements on track.\nResolve technical issues early and guide key design decisions from concept through integration and customer acceptance.\nCross-Functional Delivery Support\nPartner with Applications Engineering, Manufacturing, Assembly, Integration, and customer-facing teams where technical clarity or execution confidence is needed.\nIdentify proposal, scope, readiness, and build risks early so downstream teams are not surprised.\nTechnical Quality & Problem Solving\nReinforce sound engineering judgment through design reviews, safety assessments, compliance awareness, and practical problem-solving.\nRecommend improvements that strengthen design quality, efficiency, and delivery consistency.\nStandards, Review Discipline & Risk Ownership\nDrive consistent use of design standards, review expectations, and technical practices across the assigned group.\nKeep risks, assumptions, release concerns, capacity issues, and quality concerns visible early through disciplined reviews and escalation.\nTeam Development Support\nMentor junior designers, new team members, and co-op students through practical coaching and review of real project work.\nIdentify capability gaps and development opportunities for discussion with the Mechanical Design Manager.\nTeam Lead and Mechanical Design Lead Boundary\nAct as Mechanical Design Lead (MDL) on appropriate projects when scope, risk, workload, and development opportunity make sense; the Team Lead role does not automatically own MDL responsibility, and MDL may also be assigned to capable senior, intermediate, or developing designers.\nWhen acting as or supporting an MDL, clarify scope breakdown, release planning, review readiness, designer coordination, and FAT support needs.\nWhere This Role Adds the Most Value\nTurning department priorities into clear daily execution for assigned designers\nKeeping technical issues, workload constraints, and delivery risks visible early enough to act on them\nStrengthening design quality, review discipline, and practical engineering judgment within the assigned group\nCreating a first-line support structure that helps designers grow while keeping project execution moving\nWorking Relationship\nThe Team Lead, Mechanical Design works in partnership with the Mechanical Design Manager to turn department priorities into clear day-to-day execution for assigned designers.\nTeam Lead, Mechanical Design: responsible for first-line group leadership, day-to-day technical execution, project work clarity, coaching, workload visibility, review discipline, technical escalation, delivery quality, and performance input\n Mechanical Design Manager: accountable for department priorities, hiring, organizational clarity, final escalations, final performance decisions, and department administration\nWhat Great Looks Like\nDesign work moves with clarity and minimal confusion\nTechnical issues are identified early and addressed constructively\nProjects are supported with strong technical quality and practical execution discipline\nTeam members understand what they are working on and what good execution looks like\nAssigned designers feel supported through practical coaching, clear escalation paths, and regular conversations about technical capability and execution habits\nDesign reviews, standards, risk visibility, and technical escalation are handled consistently within the assigned group\nCross-functional partners experience the team as responsive, solutions-oriented, and reliable\nJunior team members are developing through hands-on coaching and support\nYou’ll Be Great At\nSupporting group-level resourcing, coaching, review discipline, and workload visibility while remaining technically engaged\nMentoring others while maintaining strong delivery focus\nCreating clarity within fast-moving, project-based environments\nCommunicating effectively across design, applications, production, and leadership\nLeading technical execution while remaining hands-on in the work\nSolving technical problems in a practical, structured way\nBalancing urgency with sound engineering judgment\nKey Requirements\nDegree or Diploma in Mechanical, Mechatronic, Systems Design, Engineering Physics, Engineering Science, or related discipline\nSignificant experience in industrial automation and custom machine design\nStrong technical capability in machine design, design reviews, integration support, and project execution\nExperience working in project-based / ETO environments\nProficiency in SolidWorks, PDM, AutoCAD, and related engineering tools\nStrong written and verbal communication skills\nAbility to coach designers, inform performance and development discussions, support resource planning, and maintain visibility into workload, risk, and technical quality\nPassion for leading and developing people\nThe base salary range for this position is $50.46 - $63.09 per year (CAD). The posted range reflects the expected base salary for this position. Actual base salary will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and experience, as well as internal equity considerations. Offers are typically made within the range and not at the top of the range to support growth and progression. This position is eligible to participate in a short-term incentive plan. 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