Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• As team lead, coach and support a mechanical design team of 2-7 FTE personnel.
• Prioritize and assign tasks to the mechanical team based on their competencies based on business and design objectives provided by management and product team. Manage
  workloads and time availability.
• Maintain oversight and provide guidance to projects assigned to team members.
• Monitor and drive HSE, quality of work, productivity, fiscal efficiency, consistency.
• Foster a culture of excellence within the mechanical team. Provide effective recognition of team members for their achievements.
• Provide frequent and effective performance feedback to team, contribute to annual performance evaluations and development plans of team members.
• Identify strengths and knowledge gaps to support professional development.
• Train and mentor engineers, technologists, technicians and supporting staff.
• Contribute to resource development and hiring process where required.

Engineering

• Design ocean technology systems, including surface buoys, moorings, subsurface and seabed designs.
• Design component layouts in payloads and enclosures and mounting for a variety of power systems.
• Support operating requirements for a variety of instrumentation including meteorological,
  oceanographic and telemetry equipment.
• Execute AXYS procedures for design, development and control of non-conforming product, including dependency support for sales, field service, customer service.
• Drive efforts to meet client objectives and diligently work to clarify and establish requirements where they are unknown.
• Create or update documentation for the fabrication, assembly, and maintenance of buoy systems.
• Integrate and configure custom systems to meet client specifications.
• Lead assembly, testing and troubleshooting products as required.

Program Management

• Manage an active set of projects. Oversee project execution and maintain project deliverables, budgets, schedule, status.
• Coordinate team resources with respect to project demands and facilitating program
  management functions.
• Maintain regular and tailored communication between the team, internal and external
  stakeholders.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify project requirements.
• Support overall capacity by establishing and maintaining external resources including contract workers and internal swing resources.