Engineering Lead

Location: brisbane
Salary: $120000 - $130000 per annum
Job Type: permanent
Contact: Sheldon March
About the company
Six Degrees Executive is partnering with a Brisbane-based manufacturing business to recruit an Engineering Lead for their local operation.

The business designs and manufactures specialised industrial products for a range of commercial and heavy industry applications. They are in a strong commercial position, with continued revenue growth, strong margins and an increasing focus on their own product range.

This is a hands-on leadership role suited to someone who enjoys practical manufacturing, technical problem-solving, product development and improving engineering systems.

About the role
The Engineering Lead will take ownership of the engineering function and help bring structure, consistency and improved technical discipline across engineering, manufacturing support, product development and process improvement.

The role will lead and mentor a small engineering team while working closely with Operations, Sales and Marketing to ensure customer requirements, product design and manufacturing capability are aligned.
This role would suit someone who can improve process and accountability without overcomplicating things.

Key responsibilities
  • Lead, manage and mentor a small engineering team.
  • Improve drafting standards, drawing protocols and QA of drawings.
  • Build better engineering systems, documentation and controls.
  • Support manufacturing with technical and design-related issues.
  • Drive product improvement and design for manufacturability.
  • Support NPD from concept through to production release.
  • Assist with tooling/design, process improvement and cost reduction initiatives.
  • Work closely with Operations, Sales and Marketing to align customer needs, product design and manufacturing capability.
  • Help improve manufacturing efficiency, product quality and cost per unit over time.
  • Bring structure and accountability in a way that suits an SME manufacturing environment.
Skills and experience
  • Mechanical engineering background preferred.
  • Experience across manufacturing, product design, tooling, process improvement, factory layout or engineered products.
  • Strong understanding of engineering design principles and chemical engineering would be essential.
  • CAD capability, ideally SolidWorks, Inventor, AutoCAD or similar.
  • Ability to interpret and produce technical drawings and documentation.
  • Exposure to DFM / design for manufacturability.
  • Experience with NPD, product improvement or manufacturing engineering would be well regarded.
  • Ability to understand factory layout, tooling, manufacturing processes and production constraints.
  • Strong enough technically to mentor and develop younger engineers.
  • Exposure to specialised materials, industrial products or custom manufacturing would be beneficial, but is not essential.
  • Practical, hands-on and commercially minded.
  • Comfortable working in an SME environment where relationships and culture matter.
How to apply
Click Apply or contact me at sheldonm@sde.com.au for a confidential discussion.

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