As a Team Lead, Mechanical Design, you provide front-line leadership, coaching, workload visibility, and technical execution support for assigned designers. You help translate department priorities into clear day-to-day execution, ensuring technical issues, workload constraints, and support needs are visible early enough to keep design work moving with quality and confidence.

What You’ll Be Doing

This role combines three expectations: first-line people support, technical delivery leadership, and group-level workload visibility. The responsibilities below describe the daily responsibilities tied to those expectations.

Team Direction & Work Clarity

- Give designers clear priorities, expectations, and technical direction so assigned work moves with minimal confusion.
- Communicate decisions, trade-offs, and risks clearly so project participants stay aligned.

Group Leadership, Coaching & Load Visibility

- Provide first-line leadership through regular 1:1s, workload visibility, coaching, and performance input to the Mechanical Design Manager.
- Identify workload constraints, support needs, and capacity risks early enough to inform resourcing and priority decisions.

Technical Execution & Delivery

- Own day-to-day technical execution for assigned mechanical design work, keeping scope, schedule, quality, safety, manufacturability, and customer requirements on track.
- Resolve technical issues early and guide key design decisions from concept through integration and customer acceptance.

Cross-Functional Delivery Support

- Partner with Applications Engineering, Manufacturing, Assembly, Integration,



and customer-facing teams where technical clarity or execution confidence is needed.
- Identify proposal, scope, readiness, and build risks early so downstream teams are not surprised.

Technical Quality & Problem Solving

- Reinforce sound engineering judgment through design reviews, safety assessments, compliance awareness, and practical problem-solving.
- Recommend improvements that strengthen design quality, efficiency, and delivery consistency.

Standards, Review Discipline & Risk Ownership

- Drive consistent use of design standards, review expectations, and technical practices across the assigned group.
- Keep risks, assumptions, release concerns, capacity issues, and quality concerns visible early through disciplined reviews and escalation.

Team Development Support

- Mentor junior designers, current team members, and co-op students through practical coaching and review of real project work.
- Identify capability gaps and development opportunities for discussion with the Mechanical Design Manager.

Team Lead and Mechanical Design Lead Boundary

- Act as Mechanical Design Lead (MDL) on appropriate projects when scope, risk, workload, and development opportunity make sense; the Team Lead role does not automatically own MDL responsibility, and MDL may also be assigned to capable senior, intermediate, or developing designers.




- When acting as or supporting an MDL, clarify scope breakdown, release planning, review readiness, designer coordination, and FAT support needs.

Where This Role Adds the Most Value

- Turning department priorities into explicit daily execution for assigned designers
- Keeping technical issues, workload constraints, and delivery risks visible early enough to act on them
- Strengthening design quality, review discipline, and practical engineering judgment within the assigned group
- Creating a first-line support structure that helps designers grow while keeping project execution moving

Working Relationship

- Team Lead, Mechanical Design: responsible for first-line group leadership, day-to-day technical execution, project work clarity, coaching, workload visibility, review discipline, technical escalation, delivery quality, and performance input
- Mechanical Design Manager: accountable for department priorities, hiring, organizational clarity, final escalations, final performance decisions, and department administration

What Great Looks Like

- Design work moves with clarity and minimal confusion
- Technical issues are identified early and addressed constructively
- Projects are supported with strong technical quality and practical execution discipline
- Team members understand what they are working on and what good execution looks like
- Assigned designers feel supported through practical coaching, clear escalation paths, and regular conversations about technical capability and execution habits
- Design reviews, standards, risk visibility, a

📌 Team Lead, Mechanical Design (London)
🏢 Samuel, Son
📍 London