Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager
Location: Edmonton Area
Company: Silent-Aire, a Johnson Controls Company
Time Type
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Full-time permanent
About Us: Silent-Aire, a division of Johnson Controls, is a global leader in innovative solutions for data center customers. Our product portfolio includes large-scale, custom-engineered equipment such as Air Handling Units (AHU), Modular Data Centers (MDC), and Coolant Distribution Units (CDU). We are known for delivering high-quality, engineered-to-order solutions that meet the demanding requirements of hyperscale and mission-critical facilities.
Position Overview: Silent-Aire is seeking an experienced Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager to provide technical leadership and people management across complex mechanical engineering programs. This role serves as a technical authority, escalation point, and people leader, ensuring alignment between engineering execution, customer requirements, manufacturing constraints, and broader business objectives.
The Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager leads technical client conversations, oversees engineering execution throughout the full product lifecycle, and acts as the technical project manager coordinating across multiple engineering and manufacturing disciplines.
Key Responsibilities:
Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous learning.
Set clear technical expectations, priorities, and workload plans across multiple concurrent projects.
Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development, and succession planning.
Act as the escalation authority for complex technical issues, design risk, and system performance challenges.
Ensure compliance with applicable codes, standards, customer specifications, and certification requirements.
Provide guidance on design development, code reviews, equipment testing, and construction documentation.
Lead technical planning, execution strategy, and engineering risk management.
Coordinate across electrical, structural, controls, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program management teams.
Support estimating, proposal development, pricing alignment, and pre-award technical reviews.
Provide engineering leadership through manufacturing support, testing, commissioning, and warranty resolution.
Mentor Engineers-in-Training and support technical development across the team.
Develop customer relationships and support new business development initiatives.
Champion standardization while maintaining flexibility for custom and client-specific requirements.
Drive improvements in engineering processes, workflows, and technical documentation.
Promote innovation, value engineering, and best practices across engineering programs.
Support disciplined execution of engineering change processes (ECR, ECN, TCN, FCN).Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for design processes and VAVE initiatives.
Promote consistent engineering practices across teams and projects.
Ensure ongoing compliance with local, national, and international standards and regulatory requirements.
Establish and improve workflows recognizing that mechanical engineers act as project technical managers.
Qualifications:
B.Eng.)
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