Design Engineer Supervisor

The Design Engineer Supervisor plays a key role within the Engineering Team and reports to the Engineering Manager. This position oversees day-to-day mechanical design execution, engineering standards, design quality, drawing review, workload coordination, and continuous improvement to ensure conveyor and material handling products are complete, manufacturable, accurate, and delivered on time. The individual in this role will also contribute to product development, design standardization, team capability growth, and the ongoing improvement of engineering processes and product performance.

The Design Engineer Supervisor implements departmental priorities, standards, resource plans, and strategic direction established by the Engineering Manager.

The Design Engineer Supervisor is expected to leverage strong mechanical design expertise and leadership skills to guide the team through complex engineering challenges, establish consistent design and documentation practices, and foster a high-accountability, solutions-oriented culture. This role works closely with the Engineering Manager and across departmental teams to ensure customer requirements are effectively translated into reliable, cost-effective, and production-ready designs.

• Lead, mentor, and develop the Design Engineering team, providing daily technical coaching and professional development support.
• Coordinate day-to-day work assignments, workloads, and priorities for the Design Engineering team in alignment with project priorities established by the Engineering Manager.
• Establish clear expectations for design quality, productivity, timing, ownership, and accountability.
• Provide ongoing performance feedback, coaching, and development to support performance evaluations, goal setting, and career-development planning.
• Identify team training and capability gaps and recommend plans to strengthen technical knowledge, design practices, and overall engineering effectiveness.

• Review engineering drawings, 3D models, bills of material, calculations, layouts, and released designs to ensure accuracy, completeness, manufacturability, and compliance with company standards.

• Implement, maintain, and enforce department-approved engineering design, drawing, documentation, CAD, and design-review standards.
• Ensure designs meet safety, sanitation, quality, customer, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Serve as a senior technical resource for complex mechanical design challenges, providing guidance and solutions to the Design Engineering team and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Drive consistent design-review practices to identify design risks, recurring errors, and sources of rework before release.
• Support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for field, production, and design-related issues; recommend and implement practical corrective actions.
• Evaluate design alternatives to improve product reliability, manufacturability, cost, and performance.

• Monitor the status of design work and proactively identify schedule, quality, scope, or resource issues across active projects.
• Ensure designs are complete, properly documented, and released on time to support project, procurement, and production requirements.
• Manage day-to-day team priorities and upscale material resource, schedule, scope, or technical risks to the Engineering Manager.
• Collaborate closely with Applications Engineering to ensure customer requirements are properly interpreted and translated into effective engineering requirements and product designs.
• Work with Controls Engineering to ensure mechanical and controls systems are effectively integrated.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Procurement, and Sales teams to support successful project execution, production readiness, and customer outcomes.
• Support design-for-manufacturing, cost-reduction, and production-improvement initiatives across the organization.
• Provide technical recommendations and implementation support for product enhancements, design improvements, and new product-development initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve product consistency, performance, reliability, and ease of manufacturing through design innovation and standardization.
• Support the development and reuse of proven designs, components, templates, and engineering details.
• Incorporate feedback from customers, production, field service, and internal stakeholders to improve existing products and guide future design decisions.
• Identify sources of engineering rework, delays, inefficiency, and manufacturing issues attributable to design; recommend and implement approved corrective actions.
• Recommend and implement approved improvements to design-engineering systems and processes that support departmental scalability and consistent execution.
• Support the development and use of meaningful Design Engineering performance metrics to measure execution, quality, standardization, and team performance.
• Keep abreast of relevant…