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Mechanical Engineering Manager - Amazon

KION Group
Grand Rapids, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Jul 2025
💰 $152,900/yr($104,250/yr$152,900/yr)

About the role

Dematic Corp has an immediate need for a Mechanical Engineering Manager to manage a project execution team dedicated to one of Dematic’s strategic clients, within our Project Engineering Group. The successful candidate will have 6+ years of experience leading Mechanical Systems engineers on varying scale projects in the material handling industry. Candidates must have significant experience with material handling systems and demonstrated success in team leadership roles. This manager will be overseeing a team that partners directly with a strategic client.

The Mechanical Engineering Manager will be highly involved with managing day-to-day tactical project execution, assessing and growing team capabilities, working across department groups to ensure program-wide alignment, and driving strategic Project Engineering initiatives and continuous improvement opportunities.

We offer:

  • Career Development
  • Competitive Compensation and Benefits
  • Pay Transparency
  • Global Opportunities

Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer

Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $104,250 - 152,900 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

    Tasks and Qualifications:

    What You Will do in This Role:

    • Own project performance of direct engineering team
    • Provide prompt coaching and guidance to help ensure project successes
    • Ensure project targets are met for quality, on-time delivery, and cost. Anticipate issues and address appropriately where appropriate
    • Provide regular reporting of project performance and status to management and peers
    • Maintain accurate monthly forecasting across assigned projects
    • Proactively manage direct project budgets and indirect department budgets
    • Provide input to annual budget regarding staffing, indirect spending,…etc.
    • Attend project turnovers and appropriately assess projects for technical risks, cost risks, and schedule risks prior to execution team deployment
    • Make educated project staffing choices based on team skills, program priorities, and customer visibility
    • Maintain schedules for individual contributors and coordinate level-loading of team members
    • Participate in pre-sale technical reviews with Sales and Solution Development teams
    • Use opportunity to reduce project risks and develop close awareness of customer expectations and demands
    • Successfully define work flows, jobs, and reporting relationships to obtain optimum effectiveness
    • Analyzes and understands impact of decisions on business operations
    • Appraise and recommend changes in methods or procedures.

    Team Growth and Development Responsibilities:

    • Drive capacity planning through continual pipeline and team bandwidth assessments
    • Effectively recruit, onboard, and integrate new hires into the team
    • Develop a system for continuous team development through coaching and mentoring, gap assessment and training, and team and individual empowerment
    • Develop project execution best practices and implement throughout team
    • Create and maintain a culture of collaboration within team
    • Set high expectations and encourage team members to be role-models internally throughout Dematic and externally with the customer
    • Maintain safety and compliance standards
    • Provide approachable and open lines of communication to all team members
    • Support talent development through completion of formal yearly OCTR (Organization Capability and Talent Rev

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    KION Group

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