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The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $113,600 - $142,000 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:
- Lead, develop and coach a team of Development Engineers to deliver innovative material handling product improvements, cost optimization initiatives and related projects on schedule and within budget
- Ensure commercialized products and design improvements meet applicable performance, safety, reliability, manufacturability and regulatory requirements
- Contribute to strategic and tactical planning to support on-time product delivery including effective resource management and coordination including external partners or contractors.
- Maintain strong communication and ongoing coordination with internal groups to ensure engineering deliverables meet operational needs and service standards.
- Promote engineering standard methodologies, while supporting continuous improvement and lean initiatives
- Lead all aspects of project execution including schedule management, distribution of resources and technical decisions
- Foster a collaborative, high‑performing team culture and strengthen multi-functional partnerships across Dematic to improve visibility, engagement, and alignment.
Project/Product Delivery:
- Responsible for ensuring that projects are on schedule and on budget
- Weekly monitoring, monthly evaluation and reporting of project status
- Accurate monthly resource allocation and forecasting
- Establish appropriate tasks
- Identify skills gap assessment and appropriate skills assignment
- Maintain safety & compliance standards and communication
- Design issue resolution
Financial Responsibility:
- Awareness of budget plan and ensuring that daily management decision is aligned (training hours, OT, indirect vs direct), proactive management
- Awareness of Strategic Plans and what their team’s responsibility is for achieving those goals
- Managing Team and Individual expenses
- Managing workload to project budgets and risk mitigation
What We are Looking For:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Advanced degree a plus
Knowledge and Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years of engineering and engineering leadership experience
- Experience with product development processes including testing and validation along with engineering change management
- Experience with accurately estimating project timelines and cost (resources)
- Material Handling Industry Experience strongly preferred
- Minimum of 5 years of Product Development Experience
- Controls technology exposure is a plus
Skills:
- Strong leadership, and team development skills with the ability to mentor, coach, influence, and build effective working relationships.
- Excellent analytical, organizational and time management abilities with a structured approach to problem solving.
- Effective communication skills including experience delivering presentations, facilitating group discussions, and interacting with internal partners and customers.
- Proficiency with mechanical CAD and Product Life Cycle Management System Tools experience (e.g. NX, Teamcenter, Unigraphics, etc.)
- Strong Analytical problem-solving capability, including root cause analysis, development of corrective actions, and appropriate communication of complex customer concerns.
- Experience developing products using engineering analysis and validation methods such as FEA, driving DFMEA, Functional Testing and Durability Testing.
- Ability to collaborate effectively within a cross-functional, team-based environment and work with employees at all levels across the organization
- Familiarity with material handling equipment specifications and applications (e.g., Amazon standards) is a plus.
- Proficient in standard business software including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision in both office and remote environments while supporting geographically distributed teams
- Capable of managing multiple priorities and complex business challenges simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Willingness to travel up to 20% to customer sites, Dematic offices, and other locations as required for meetings, training, and project support
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Minimum of 5 years of engineering and engineering leadership experience
- Experience with product development processes
- Material Handling Industry Experience
- Proficiency with mechanical CAD and PLM tools
What We Do
Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries. We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers. Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry. With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis. No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally. Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
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