Design Engineering Manager Jobs

Crystal Fountains is a Global Leader in the design and manufacture of premium water features. We were founded in 1967, with offices in Canada, the Middle East & Europe. We are considered the “Sherpas” of the water feature industry and are committed to keeping our Customers first and keeping them out of trouble.

As a designer and manufacturer, Crystal is able to provide a full scope of services, including conceptual design, engineering, drawing production, custom manufacturing, project management, programming, and commissioning. It offers solutions to meet the varied needs of developers, architects, contractors, distributors, VARs (Value Added Resellers), and the general public.

Crystal Fountains is looking for a Mechanical Engineer to join its dynamic team in Toronto (Vaughan), Ontario, who will report to the Design Engineering Manager.

Key Accountabilities/Activities (summary):

The Design Engineering Manager at Crystal Fountains is responsible for proactively planning and organizing the day-to-day and long-term management of Crystal’s System Design and Application Engineering teams. They will own all Engineering processes from sales forecast to post-commissioning and warranty. They will minimize Engineering risks by ensuring that Crystal’s Designs and methods meet all applicable standards, codes, and industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Promptly and accurately respond to Customer and Prospect requests for information.
• Deal with the tough decisions of “trade-offs” when the company’s activities are incompatible. Deal with incompatible behaviors and management systems. Limit what our company offers.
• Conform to company values for Health & safety
• Ensure that information is stored correctly and retrievable easily
• Safe fountain designs that conform to industry best practices regarding sanitation, soft tissue damage, toe entrapment, and segregation of people from hazardous fountain elements.
• Undertake any other assignments as reasonably issued by the Director of Creative Operations
• Reduce the number of occurrences CF is in an auction.
• Reviewing Process flow diagrams for mechanical and electrical water feature design.
• Build a set of activities that provides a unique mix of customer value.
• Adhere to the “Code of Business Conduct & Ethics”
• Design and engineering of custom and modified components and equipment
• Outperform our rivals by establishing a difference we can preserve
• Costing and Estimating consultancy projects
• Create Sustainable Competitive Advantages
• Fountain Solutions Information Fulfillment
• Human Resources
• Conform to the laws of Ontario regarding workplace safety.
• Leader of High Performing Engineering Teams with a Continuous Improvement culture
• Prepare project specifications.
• Prepare project schedule and resource planning.
• Responsible for five directives:
• Public Safety
• Strengthen our capabilities that match our customer values of “Product Performance,” “Effortless,” and “Expert.”
• The information depth, quality, and accuracy of all information needed for a customer to realize their fountain design.
• Project Management, Custom Components
• Grow our people's talent and group intelligence by being a terrific team member.
• Keep Crystal’s engineering quality up to date with the industry’s Fountain Design Standards and best practices
• Attend meetings, respond to RFIs, and prepare drawings package submissions.
• Design Information Fulfillment – The information depth, quality, and accuracy of all “customer information that supports our designs.
• Fountain Engineering – Managing the production of risk-free, trusted water feature engineering that keeps our company's reputation safe and our customers out of trouble.
• Developing Strategies for highly reliable project designs
• Budgeting the MEP construction cost for the consultancy project

Major Activities Include:

• High-Performance Teams

Manage engineering using philosophies of accountability and continuous improvement.

• Build succession plans
• Be approachable and encourage people to speak freely
• Formally track quality-related issues with the quality department
• Set specific goals, targets, and standards of performance for all direct reports
• Ensure the availability of resources to support continuous improvement activities.
• Is completely familiar with Continuous Improvement and Lean tools. Gemba, Pareto, data collection, etc. Participates in Kaizen events. Encourage experimentation.
• Ensure the practices of "effective communication" are maintained. Coach those who need it.
• Making sure you have a “Following” – You keep talent
• Review performance of all direct reports quarterly
• Measure results, review with employees
• Develop and manage department budget
• Build High Performing teams
• Develop Strategies for highly reliable new and custom products
• Participates in networking and education – self-development
• Attend daily operations meetings
• Flexible workforce – Cross training
• Ensure goals are reasonable and achievable
• Be a Believer in Visual Manufacturing; visual aids develop and maintain Tier 1 and Tier 2 reporting formats

• Work from home
• Interpersonal Understanding
• Vision care
• Office environment
• An undergraduate degree in Engineering or higher
• Organized
• Create and maintain proactive design systems to ensure designs meet or beat budget and on-time delivery.
• Quality – Be a leader in engineering information quality of presentation and accuracy of content
• Casual dress
• Ensure the accuracy of standard costs within the system
• On-site parking
• Materials Management - Make recommendations and decisions about our materials and technologies in all pass-through products.
• Strong Planning and Organizational skills
• Ensure compliance with ISO9001 document control systems
• The “Day To Day” Engineering Solutions fulfillment and problem-solving.
• Create, maintain, and enforce Fountain Design Standards, including all engineering disciplines, including mechanical, electrical, etc.
• Dental care
• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills
• Improve margins
• Disability insurance
• 5+ years of Engineering Leadership experience with multidisciplinary teams
• Maintain estimate vs. actual time analysis, with variance and trend lines.
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Flextime
• RRSP match
• Ability to develop key metrics for engineering and disciplined focus on maintaining KPI data
• Minimize or eliminate Engineering Risks that the company faces, and our customers rely on us to advise them.
• Project management experience with construction or consultancy projects, PMI training, or certification as an asset
• Extended health care
• Thorough
• Manage & Safeguard Company Assets in your care, such as intellectual property, our proprietary soft wares of “Specifier & Workflow,” engineering databases, fountain design information, product information assets, etc.
• Automation – Champion the automated engineering systems to improve the efficiency of information production (Future development)
• Curious
• Bachelor's Degree BASC required. In Mechanical Engineering.
• Analytical
• Analytical skills appropriate for effective and proactive management of financial and operational metrics
• Ability to lead and manage change within an organization
• Removing waste from our consultancy
• Bonus pay
• Accurate
• 10+ years’ experience in application mechanical and electrical engineering in an MEP contractor environment. Consultancy experience is also welcomed.
• 8 hour shift
• Engineering Documentation, Drawing packages, Process flow diagrams, and customer information documents (shop drawings, catalog, etc.)
• Create and maintain proactive design information systems to ensure excellent drawing, specification, bills of material, and all build information quality.
• Research and incorporate Global Regulatory Standards compliance must be branded as the fountain company with the global best practices.
• Analyze project costing data
• Work with Procurement and Manufacturing to produce accurate, on-time custom product cost and lead time estimations.