Barry-Wehmiller - Engineering Leader

Position Summary:

The Engineering Leader provides leadership oversight for the GCC Engineering flex pool, ensuring engineering resources are deployed effectively across multiple global divisions while maintaining the agreed scope, operating intent, and stakeholder commitments of the flex team model. Day-to-day technical challenge resolution, deliverable quality, and output management will be owned by front-line leaders within the flex team.

Reporting to the Director, GCC Engineering, the Flex Team Leader enables GCC scalability, cross-platform collaboration, and shared-services identity by establishing the right governance, cadence, role clarity, and stakeholder engagement mechanisms for the flex team.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Resource Allocation and Delivery:

- Oversee flex pool deployment across platforms, ensuring the required Mechanical, Electrical, and Controls Engineering capacity is available and aligned to agreed priorities.

- Establish delivery governance through front-line leaders who are accountable for technical issue resolution, quantity of work completed, quality of outputs, and timely escalation of risks or constraints.

2. Bench strength ownership:

- Drive a monthly demand-planning cadence with platforms and partner with recruiting to sustain available capacity at all times through proactive team build-out with efficient forecasting and demand planning.

- Partner with engineering leaders to plan the cohort size, composition and deployment to fulfil recruitment needs across the GCC engineering team.

3. Stakeholder Engagement:

- Partner with platform engineering leaders and internal front-line leaders to anticipate flex resource demand, confirm scope and priorities, and provide weekly and monthly updates on capacity, commitments, delivery health, and stakeholder risks.

4. Team Leadership and Capability Building:

- Build organizational capability by developing front-line leaders, enabling them to coach flex engineers, manage technical readiness, and ensure consistent execution against platform-specific standards.

- Use a skills matrix to maintain visibility to team capability, coverage gaps, readiness levels, and deployment suitability across the flex team.

- Partner with Director, GCC Engineering and People team on recruitment, onboarding, and training.

5. Governance and Reporting:

- Own allocation governance, billing visibility, stakeholder commitment tracking, monthly reporting, heart count forecasts, and core flex team utilization metrics.

- Contribute to GCC dashboards (utilization, attrition, skills coverage, project allocation).

- Support continuous improvement and standardization of engineering processes by enabling governance, escalation discipline, and consistent execution practices through front-line leaders.

6. GCC Integration and Culture:

- Role-model GCC identity while ensuring fairness and transparency in cross-platform assignments.

- Encourage knowledge-sharing and collaboration across flex and dedicated teams.

Technical and Operational Leader Capability:

Seeking an experienced engineering leader with a strong understanding of mechanical engineering delivery and cross-platform stakeholder management. The role requires sufficient technical breadth to engage credibly with platform leaders and front-line technical leaders. Working knowledge of discrete machine design, engineering workflows, CAD-based delivery environments, FEA concepts, and global engineering standards is preferred.

Certifications such as PMP or Six Sigma Black Belt will be considered an advantage. Exposure to industrial machinery design, installation, commissioning, and practical engineering constraints is desirable. Experience managing distributed teams, external partners, or shared-service delivery models is important to ensure commitments, timelines, escalation paths, and stakeholder expectations are managed effectively.