Team Lead, Mechanical Design

As a Team Lead, Mechanical Design, you provide front-line leadership, coaching, workload visibility, and technical execution support for assigned designers. 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.

This 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.

• Give designers clear priorities, expectations, and technical direction so assigned work moves with minimal confusion.
• Communicate decisions, trade-offs, and risks clearly so project participants stay aligned.

• Provide first-line leadership through regular 1:1s, workload visibility, coaching, and performance input to the Mechanical Design Manager.
• Identify workload constraints, support needs, and capacity risks early enough to inform resourcing and priority decisions.

• Own day-to-day technical execution for assigned mechanical design work, keeping scope, schedule, quality, safety, manufacturability, and customer requirements on track.
• Resolve technical issues early and guide key design decisions from concept through integration and customer acceptance.

• Partner with Applications Engineering, Manufacturing, Assembly, Integration, and customer-facing teams where technical clarity or execution confidence is needed.
• Identify proposal, scope, readiness, and build risks early so downstream teams are not surprised.

• Reinforce sound engineering judgment through design reviews, safety assessments, compliance awareness, and practical problem-solving.
• Recommend improvements that strengthen design quality, efficiency, and delivery consistency.

• Drive consistent use of design standards, review expectations, and technical practices across the assigned group.
• Keep risks, assumptions, release concerns, capacity issues, and quality concerns visible early through disciplined reviews and escalation.

• Mentor junior designers, new team members, and co-op students through practical coaching and review of real project work.
• Identify capability gaps and development opportunities for discussion with the Mechanical Design Manager.

• Act 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.
• When acting as or supporting an MDL, clarify scope breakdown, release planning, review readiness, designer coordination, and FAT support needs.

• Turning department priorities into clear daily execution for assigned designers
• Keeping technical issues, workload constraints, and delivery risks visible early enough to act on them
• Strengthening design quality, review discipline, and practical engineering judgment within the assigned group
• Creating a first-line support structure that helps designers grow while keeping project execution moving

• Team 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
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