# Engineering Lead - Electrical Components

**Company:** [New Flyer](https://jobs.workable.com/companies/6wJA4XBiiYGn3oG8E8Mt3r.md)
**Location:** Winnipeg, Canada
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Engineering - Production

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## Description

The Engineering Lead (EL) aligns all stakeholder efforts with organizational strategy, driving proactive risk management and accountability. Through cross-functional leadership and customer-focused delivery, the EL ensures engineering outcomes meet critical deadlines, contractual milestones, and lifecycle expectations. Serving as a strategic integrator, the role strengthens resilience and design integrity while advancing engineering excellence through technical credibility, process optimization, and collaborative execution across design, production, and service phases.

### Responsibilities:

\- Review customer specifications to identify any gaps in product or process and provide Bids & Sales with the specific risk-related details, propose approved alternatives or deviation requirements.

\- Represent Production Engineering in vendor interactions and evaluate supplier quotes at bid stage

\- Provide technical guidance and oversight to engineering teams tailored to customer specifications

\- Proactively identify project risks and initiate the appropriate validation efforts to ensure the technical build requirements comply with industry standards and regulations (e.g. APTA, SAE, FMVSS, CMVSS, ADA, CARB, etc.)

\- Manage New Design Integration (NDI) projects: set Specific Measurable Achievable Relevant Time-bound (SMART) goals, facilitate virtual bus reviews engaging all stakeholders, monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), provide tasking to designers/technical leaders, and report project status end-to-end

\- Provide technical leadership by reviewing and approving Engineering Change Notification packages as required in order to maintain continuity and ensuring deadlines are met

\- Manage engineering ANDON postings and responses to support engineering operations and resolve issues promptly

\- Prepare and submit Supplier Application Approval packages, customer approval drawings, test reports, and oversees signoff requirements

\- Coordinate the release and tracking of approval drawings to customers, ensuring engineering deliverables align with project milestones

\- Collaborate on vendor/customer design issues, support the completion of Sales Release Change Requests, and alternate sourcing strategies

\- Act as liaison between Engineering and departments such as Customer Program Management, Vehicle Application Engineering, Strategic Sourcing, Production, Quality, and Service Engineering

\- Approve Option Value forms to define Family and Feature information, in collaboration with the configuration group and VAE, to optimize various design configurations

\- Support training, mentorship, team building, performance management, and succession planning within Engineering Services

\- Support product standardization and design integration across Sales, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain

\- Coordinate engineering efforts to identify design improvement opportunities and present new initiatives to the Change Control Board

## Requirements

\- Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering or Certified Engineering Technologist designation

\- Minimum 5+ years in a related engineering or project leadership role, and/or 3+ years technical experience internal to NFI/MCI

\- Advanced technical and project management capabilities

\- Strong communication, organizational, and leadership skills

\- Proficiency in engineering tools and systems (NX, Teamcenter, Oracle, ePlanner, Excel, A3 reporting)

\- A self-starter who is able to work independently

\- Required travel to the US (<15%)