Lead Mechanical Design Engineer

Lycopodium Limited; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Mechanical Design Engineer to join its Vancouver team. This role involves managing engineering teams to deliver high-quality designs and ensuring compliance with standards. You will lead design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives. With a strong focus on career progression and technical skill development, this position offers a diverse and rewarding career path. If you are a creative problem-solver with extensive experience in mineral processing and metallurgical design, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible Work Arrangements

Career Progression Opportunities

Technical Skill Development

Diverse Project Involvement

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in mineral processing or metallurgical plant design.
• Strong leadership skills with a focus on mentoring and development.

Responsibilities

• Manage multi-discipline engineering teams to ensure timely project delivery.
• Conduct design reviews and monitor project progress and performance.

Skills

Engineering Design

Project Management

Mineral Processing

Metallurgical Plant Design

Mentoring

Technical Aptitude

Problem-Solving Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Qualification in Engineering

Job description

With offices in Australia, Canada, Africa, Peru, and the Philippines, Lycopodium proudly delivers high-quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure, and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

Lycopodium is currently recruiting for a Lead Mechanical Design Engineer to join our growing Engineering team in Vancouver, BC.

Reporting to the Manager of Engineering, you are accountable for managing and directing the multi-discipline engineering/drafting teams to produce outputs that are fit for purpose, in alignment with project requirements, and produced in a timely and cost-effective manner.

The tasks you'll perform:

1. Demonstrate creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in anticipating and solving design issues.
2. Design approval of drawings, standards, specifications, and procedures.
3. Monitor the progress and performance of the project design team and provide feedback and support where necessary.
4. Preparation of man-hour budgets and design schedules for Study/EPCM estimates.
5. Facilitate design reviews through the development stages of the project design.
6. Assist with pre-commissioning activities and manage field engineering.
7. Manage subordinates’ review of vendor certified documentation (drawings, data sheets, manuals, lube lists, etc.) and the dissemination of vendor information to discipline engineers/drafting resources for interface checking.
8. Management of and responsibility for multi-discipline design and drafting resources assigned to allocated tasks to achieve agreed deliverable dates and man-hour budgets.
9. Follow and implement all relevant Company standards and procedures and ensure design drawings comply with all relevant Australian and International Standards.
10. Compile project reporting requirements in accordance with Company and Client standards to a high level of accuracy and professionalism.
11. Contribute to engineers in training and professional development by providing consistent mentoring and identifying avenues of development.
12. Provide technical support and input to proposals, customer presentations, and other marketing, business development activities. Prepare design scope, budget, and schedule for written proposals.
13. Develop and contribute to the delivery of improvement initiatives which support business priorities for continuous improvement.
14. Ensure a high level of communication is attained with all internal and external stakeholders.
15. Provide leadership, guidance, and direction to the design team as required.
16. Travel on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and its operations.

The expertise you'll bring:

1. Qualification in Engineering, or the equivalent.
2. Minimum 15 years post-graduate experience in Mineral Processing or Metallurgical plant design.
3. Intuitive leader with the ability to initiate, lead, and manage change in a complex environment.
4. Provide mentoring and identify avenues of professional development and succession planning to personnel within your team.
5. Capacity to evaluate work practices, implement systems, and suggest alternatives and refinements where necessary.
6. Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision whilst consistently producing a high quality of deliverables.
7. Demonstrated ability to achieve consistently high standards within both budgetary and schedule constraints.
8. High attention to detail and exceptional knowledge of engineering drawings.
9. Solid technical aptitude, analytical and problem-solving skills.
10. Proficient understanding of business acumen with the ability to adapt to different business environments.

The benefits we'll provide:

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognize that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That’s why we:

1. Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
2. Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
3. Are undertaking significant people and technology initiatives that will support the workplace of the future.

We encourage and value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of gender, age, disability, and ethnicity.

Our commitment to equal opportunity is embodied in our values of Respect, Integrity & Diligence. They are inherent in who we are, as individuals, and collectively as a Company.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.

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