The role of the Mechanical Lead Engineer is to manage all mechanical design engineering-related activities of the project to ensure that relevant deliverables are in time, scope, quality, and budget, and adhere to established standards.
This is a lead role that will utilise your experience to estimate and manage mechanical engineering-related project risks, take ownership of the related planning and scheduling, and be the point of contact for mechanical engineering.
This role reports to the Head of Project Engineering Delivery but supports and takes direction from the Project Manager in the respective projects or, if appointed, to a Project Lead Engineer. In addition, the role will be involved in the full cycle of the project from sales through engineering up to handover.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Supporting the Sales team during the sales phase by providing technical advice, supporting estimation effort, project schedule creation and understanding of required engineering skillset.
• Ensure that we have resources from the Mechanical Engineering Team with the right skill set to execute the project effectively.
• Be the Mechanical Engineering point of contact for the Project Manager, Site Manager, Procurement, and Manufacturing as well as client architect, builder and design consultants.
• Leading project Mechanical Engineering teams through task allocation and reporting.
• Creating and updating Mechanical Engineering project status reports, financial forecasts, and schedule updates (resources updates), ensuring Mechanical Engineering cost control.
• Documenting, escalating, and managing Mechanical Engineering project risks (also preparation of Project Status Report) / Project Variance Request).
• Ensure all project Quality Gates are met for Mechanical Engineering activities.
• Conducting regular on-site safety audits when visiting a site and advising on any special installation requirements; deriving actions.
• Ensuring that Bill of Materials) and project procurement plan for Mechanical Engineering products has been done and ordered.
• Manage Completion of Design Risk Assessment and Safety design validation during the mechanical design stage.
• Ensuring that the list for the mechanical installation has been done and the site is ready for the next phase which is electrical installation.
• Ensuring the correct transmittal of all Mechanical Engineering Deliverables to the Customer i.e. layout drawings.
• Ensuring the right technical information has been provided for the Customer Service training.
• Ensuring project technical documentation is completed.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:

• Degree-level education within a technical Engineering discipline.
• A good level of understanding of Machinery Safety.
• Experience in a similar project engineering role.
• Experience working within an industrial automation environment.
• Experience leading project teams on complex projects.
• A working understanding of technical manuals & drawings, Mechanical/Electrical.
• Working knowledge of ISO standards governing the automated warehouse industry.
• Ability to travel approximately 15% of the time (depending on the stage of the project) within EMEA.
• Good communication skills, highly organised and proactive in their approach.
• Understanding of MS Project, JIRA, and other project management tools.
• Understand and use relevant design requirements such as the Machinery Directive and its harmonised standards.
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