Lead Project Engineer, Mechanical

Stanley Black & Decker; Towson (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanley Black & Decker in Towson, MD seeks a Lead Project Engineer for Micro-Hydraulic systems. You will lead design, integration, and validation across handheld and stationary platforms, coordinating with electrical, software, and manufacturing teams to meet cost and schedule targets.

You have a strong background in high-pressure micro-hydraulics, proven project leadership, and hands-on problem solving. You will mentor engineers and help bring products from concept to production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• 7–10 years of mechanical design experience in micro-hydraulic systems.
• Experience leading engineering projects or technical workstreams.
• Strong knowledge of hydraulic systems and high-pressure micro-hydraulics.
• Experience creating/interpreting hydraulic schematics and engineering drawings.
• Proficiency in hydraulic calculations, sizing and troubleshooting.
• Experience with product development from concept to launch.
• Knowledge of GD&T, DFMEA, and root-cause analysis.
• Excellent communication and global-team collaboration.
• Ability to lead teams and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, integration, and validation of micro-hydraulic systems.
• Provide technical leadership across handheld and stationary products.
• Collaborate with electrical, software, motor controls, suppliers, and manufacturing.
• Support prototype testing and production launch.
• Contribute to IP development and patent-support activities.

Skills

Mechanical design

Project leadership

Hydraulic systems

GD&T

Technical mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Lead Project Engineer - Micro Hydraulic

We Don't Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Come Build the World with Us

This is the career you've been waiting for your whole life. Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you'll get the unique chance to impact some of the world's most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black & Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are

We're the World's largest tool company. We design and develop the tools that are used to change the world every day here in our engineering headquarters in Towson, Maryland. Our design teams are involved with every step of the process bringing these world class products to life. From conducting end user research to identify new needs, to designing and prototyping tools to ensure we meet our customers high expectations, to creating robust tests to guarantee the tools we make stand up to the toughest environments, our engineers own every aspect of the process along the way.

Who You Are

You're a strong problem solver who loves digging into the details to fully understand what is going on. You have fixed a lot of problems, so you know how to sort out what is meaningful and what is not to be as efficient as possible. You have run DOE's and done the statistics to make well informed decisions. You like getting your hands dirty and want to be the one disassembling a problem to find out what is broken and how to fix it. You are comfortable taking the lead, and enjoy coaching, teaching, and developing talent. You are looking for a high-visibility role where you can make an immediate and lasting impact. You can lead the complete design of a complex electro-mechanical product. You're agile and adaptable but work with precision to ensure we deliver top-notch customer experiences, always. You want to work on a project where you can see the fruits of your labor come to life and enjoy seeing the finished product on the shelves of major retailers around the globe. You also have:

Job Summary

The Micro-Hydraulic Lead Engineer is responsible for leading the design, development, integration, and validation of Micro-Hydraulic systems, subsystems, and components for product platforms and customer applications. This role provides technical leadership for handheld and stationary micro-hydraulic system design activities, including architecture definition, component selection, system analysis, prototype development, testing, and production launch support. The position requires strong cross-functional collaboration with electrical, software, motor controls, suppliers, and manufacturing teams to deliver high-quality hydraulic solutions that meet performance, cost, schedule, and reliability objectives. Experience contributing to intellectual property development, invention disclosures, and patent-support activities is highly valued.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent is required
• 7 to 10 years of mechanical design experience in micro-hydraulic system design and development.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering projects or technical workstreams.
• Strong knowledge of hydraulic system principles, fluid power components, and system integration with background in high pressure micro-hydraulics.
• Experience creating and interpreting hydraulic schematics and engineering documentation.
• Experience creating and interpreting engineering drawings.
• Proficiency in hydraulic calculations, component sizing, and system troubleshooting.
• Experience with product development processes from concept through production launch.
• Knowledge of GD&T, DFM/DFA, DFMEA, and root cause analysis methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively with a global team, including suppliers and manufacturing operations.
• Ability to provide direction and mentorship to engineers and designers and lead project teams independently.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with micro-hydraulic, high pressure compact hydraulic, or electro-hydraulic system applications.
• Familiarity with regulated, safety-critical, or high-reliability product environments.
• Experience supporting supplier qualification and component validation activities.
• Advanced analytical capability in system performance optimization and failure investigation.

Leadership and Behavioral Expectations

Self-motivated, creative, goal-oriented, and a strong team player. Holds self-accountable for results and behaviors, overcomes obstacles, and partners with others to deliver on commitments. Demonstrate understanding of quality, performance, schedule, and cost objectives in a cross-functional and/o