Lead Mechanical Engineer

Career Development and Global Exposure
At Barry-Wehmiller, your growth is our priority. Youll have access to world-class learning programs, leadership development opportunities, and mentorship from industry experts. Our global footprint means youll collaborate with teams across continents, gaining exposure to diverse markets, cutting-edge technologies, and best practices from around the world. Whether you aspire to deepen your technical expertise or take on leadership roles, we provide the resources and support to help you thrive.

If you’re ready to bring your best thinking to a high-impact, future-focused environment—where long-term stability meets start-up agility—and be part of a company that cares deeply about people, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Engineer – Mechanical with a minimum of 10 years of experience, including 8+ years of hands-on mechanical design and development; responsible for leading, coaching, and developing a team of engineers while remaining actively handson in mechanical design. This role combines deep technical contribution, collaborative leadership, and ownership mindset.
• Partners closely with BW Paperssytems global product management, manufacturing, and engineering teams to cocreate endtoend engineering solutions, primarily from a mechanical design perspective, while coordinating and, when required, guiding Electrical and Controls engineering efforts to ensure integrated system performance.
• Serves as a trusted technical leader and steward of engineering quality within the GCC, influencing design direction through expertise, collaboration, and thoughtful challenge—rather than positional authority
• Primary industry focus: Corrugator and paper converting machinery.
  Candidates with experience in adjacent industries—such as secondary packaging, endofline automation, material handling systems, industrial automation, continuous process machinery, or highspeed production equipment—are welcome, provided their experience is transferable to corrugatortype systems.

Key Result Areas:

• Owns and facilitates the DOU / SOW definition process for assigned programs, partnering with global and crossdivisional stakeholders to clarify requirements, align scope, and set realistic delivery commitments
• Leads execution of engineering programs with global teams, ensuring alignment across locations, disciplines, and divisions from concept through release
• Remains personally accountable for at least one complex mechanical design deliverable per program, maintaining handson technical contribution
• Guides design reviews, FMEA, and DFX activities collaboratively, improving design quality across teams
• Ensures delivery of highquality engineering documentation, either through direct contribution or supportive review and mentoring of team members
• Drives value creation through design optimization, standardization, and performance improvement across global platforms
• Invests in mentoring and growing engineers, strengthening technical capability, ownership mindset, and collaboration culture within the GCC
• Holds accountability for delivery commitments, product quality, and long-term team sustainability within assigned programmes

Technical skills:

• Engineering – Strong foundation in mechanical design from first principles, engineering mechanics, strength of materials, and system-level problem solving. Able to validate designs using calculations, FEA, tolerance stack-up analysis, GD&T, hydraulics, and pneumatics.
• Electrical & Controls (Collaboration & Integration) – Working knowledge of industrial electrical and controls systems, enabling meaningful collaboration with Electrical & Controls engineers on motors, drives, sensors, safety systems, and PLC-based architectures — ensuring seamless mechanical–electrical–controls integration. (Hands-on controls programming is not required.)
• Materials & Parts Selection – Sound understanding of engineering materials, manufacturing processes, and tolerance capabilities; hands-on experience selecting standard OEM components such as bearings, gearboxes, drives, belts, chains, and actuators for continuous-duty and high-load machinery.
• CAD – Expert-level proficiency in SolidWorks (mandatory) for complex assemblies and fully defined manufacturing drawings with GD&T, compliant with ISO / DIN / ANSI standards. Experience with Creo / Inventor and Model-Based Definition (MBD) is an advantage.
• Field Experience – Exposure to machine building, installation, commissioning, and field issue resolution is desirable, enabling design decisions grounded in real-world application and service feedback.

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication, coordination, and decisionmaking skills for working with global stakeholders
• Team leadership and teambuilding capability, including mentoring and technical coaching
• Attention to detail, ownership mindset, and qualityfocused execution
• Effective time management and ability to handle multiple priorities and NPD programs
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Mechatronics Engineering, with a minimum of 10 years of total experience, including 8+ years of handson mechanical design and development experience.
• OEM experience preferred, with exposure to machine installation, commissioning, and field issue troubleshooting, enabling practical, applicationdriven design decisions.
• Proven experience executing engineering projects with global teams, collaborating across geographies and time zones throughout the project lifecycle.
• Demonstrated people and project leadership experience, having guided crossfunctional teams for at least 5 years, fostering collaboration across mechanical, electrical, controls, and related disciplines.

Travel:

• May need to travel up to 10% each year based on requirements.
• Should be willing to travel to Field to support product testing and validation.

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