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Manager Mechanical Engineering

Key Facts

Full time
English

Other Skills

  • Scheduling
  • People Management
  • Decision Making
  • Team Leadership
  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Accountability
  • Problem Solving

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Experience leading mechanical engineering teams (supervisors, leads, and project engineers) and developing standards, career paths, and accountability.
  • Strong strategic leadership, technical governance, and ability to provide bid support, technical risk resolution, and design reviews.
  • Proven ability to manage projects safely, on time, and on budget with disciplined execution and risk mitigation.
  • Experience aligning engineering capacity with business demand and driving engineering readiness across programs.

Requirements:

  • Lead and develop a team of Mechanical Engineering Supervisors, Leads, and Project Engineers; establish standards and accountability.
  • Provide strategic leadership, technical governance, and selective execution support for the Mechanical Engineering function within LPS Projects.
  • Maintain hands-on involvement during critical project phases, including bid support, technical risk resolution, design reviews, and complex execution challenges.
  • Ensure projects are planned and executed with discipline, quality, safety, realism, and deliverables on time and within budget.

Job description

FORTNA partners with the world’s leading brands to transform omnichannel and parcel distribution operations. Known world-wide for enabling companies to keep pace with digital disruption and growth objectives, we design and deliver solutions, powered by intelligent software, to optimize fast, accurate and cost-effective order fulfillment and last mile delivery. Our people, innovative approach and proprietary algorithms and tools ensure optimal operations design and material and information flow. We deliver exceptional value every day to our customers with comprehensive services and products including network strategy, distribution center operational design and implementation, material handling automated equipment, robotics and a comprehensive suite of lifecycle services.

At FORTNA, we believe in fostering a workplace that isn't just a job but a movement – a collective effort to redefine success and transform challenges into opportunities. "Join the Movement" encapsulates our commitment to a workplace culture that thrives on collaboration, celebrates diversity, and empowers every individual to contribute to something greater than themselves. Our Team. Our Passion. Our Approach. 

The Mechanical Engineering Manager is responsible for providing strategic leadership, technical governance, and selective execution support for the Mechanical Engineering function within FORTNA’s LPS Projects organization. This role focuses on building, scaling, and sustaining mechanical engineering capabilities while ensuring projects are planned and executed with discipline, quality, and realism.

The Mechanical Engineering Manager leads and develops a team of Mechanical Engineering Supervisors, Leads, and Project Engineers, establishing clear standards, career pathways, and accountability. While this role is not intended to be a primary billable project resource, it maintains hands-on involvement during critical project phases, including bid support, technical risk resolution, design reviews, and complex execution challenges.

Success in this role is measured by engineering readiness, execution consistency, risk mitigation, team development, and alignment between business demand and engineering capacity, while ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, and on budget.

This job description describes the general nature and level of work expected of a person assigned to this position. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. Employees may be required to perform any other job-related duties as requested by their supervisor.

It is the policy of FORTNA and its affiliated companies to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, citizenship status (if authorized to work in the U.S.), or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, FORTNA will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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