Manager - Planning & Engineering

About Array Marketing

For over 40 years Array Marketing has been a global leader in the retail display and in-store merchandising services industry. We are committed to building on more than four decades of strength deep industry knowledge and design innovation to accelerate our growth and serve our customers even better than before.

As we continue to expand around the world we are looking for critical thinkers who are data driven have a strong work ethic and care about best practices and customer outcomes to help us carry out our vision.

Reporting to Director Engineering we are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to join us in a hands-on technical product development role. You will bring deep technical expertise across the manufacturing process to ensure our design engineers deliver exceptional design for manufacturing results and best-in-class execution. You will oversee a collaborative multidisciplinary team guide the full product development cycle strengthen technical standards and ensure our engineering output delivers value innovation and operational excellence. Engaged across every stage of development you will partner with Account Managers Project Managers clients and in-house and offshore manufacturing teams to deliver high-quality on-time and cost-effective solutions. You will champion engineering across Business Units integrating DFMA principles and value engineering into all product development activities.
This is a full-time role based at our manufacturing headquarters.

You are a highly technical Engineering Manager with strong product development expertise deep mechanical design fundamentals and a proven record of launching aesthetics-driven consumer or retail products. You bring advanced proficiency in sheet metal assemblies and weldments plastic injection moulding extrusions DFMA and modern manufacturing methods demonstrated through products you have taken from concept to production. You provide sharp technical mentorship challenge design concepts constructively and push the team to deliver manufacturable and visually refined solutions.

You will shape our engineering function by leading product development from concept to production including early design collaboration rigorous reviews prototype validation and final package release. Your decisions will elevate technical quality manufacturability and value engineering outcomes across major brands.

You will set technical standards strengthen processes and enhance cross-functional execution. From tightening SOP discipline to improving PDM data integrity you will build systems that support faster more consistent engineering execution. Technical leadership. Your expertise will guide teams through complex mechanical decisions from evaluating design intent to shaping advanced sheet metal injection moulded and extrusion-based assemblies. You will challenge assumptions mentor engineers and ensure every product achieves manufacturable high-quality and cosmetically refined results.

As we expand capabilities adopt new technologies and strengthen global partnerships you will grow with us by deepening your leadership impact broadening your technical influence and helping build a high-performance engineering culture.

As our new Engineering Manager you will:

Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary engineering team. You will guide Design Engineers Product Modellers Engineering Schedulers and Quality Control Technicians. You will recruit onboard mentor conduct reviews set goals execute development plans and foster a high-performance culture. You will manage resource sharing across Business Units balance seasonal demand and monitor time-off approvals.
You will manage engineering activities from concept through prototype sign-off ensuring all deliverables meet technical requirements client expectations and internal standards. You will maintain rigorous expectations for presentations engineering packages and documentation to support efficient transitions to production.
Ensure engineering discipline and provide strong technical leadership. You will offer clear feedback approvals and direction on engineering outputs. You will lead brainstorming sessions embed value engineering and DFMA principles and review design concepts through hands-on mentorship. You will guide advanced mechanical design across sheet metal injection moulding and extrusion assemblies to ensure robust manufacturable and cosmetically refined outcomes. You will identify opportunities to strengthen methodologies quality standards and processes.
Optimize workload planning and cross-unit collaboration. You will facilitate resource sharing anticipate workload fluctuations and partner with peers to balance engineering capacity. Drive strategic planning and process improvement. You will help define development plans for the team strengthen capabilities and support the creation of tools and processes that enhance project visibility workload management and organisational efficiency.
Strengthen compliance and technical standards. You will audit adherence to SOPs PDM file management custom properties Bills of Materials engineering package completeness milestone delivery and task updates. You will identify training needs reinforce BOM accuracy and PDM datacard usage and uphold all safety policy health and environmental standards.
Promote continuous improvement . You will recommend enhancements to methodologies quality standards and workflows to drive operational excellence and innovation.
You have a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and 8 to 10 years of progressive product development experience within a custom manufacturing environment. Experience in POP or retail design is an asset.
The technical expertise. You are highly skilled with SolidWorks PDM and standard productivity tools. You bring strong mechanical design judgement and advanced modelling skills aligned with industry best practices. You have deep experience launching products with refined aesthetics and tight integration between Industrial Design and Engineering. Sheet metal design: bend radii reliefs K-factor flat patterns tolerances and cosmetic metal part design.
Injection moulding: draft uniform wall sections ribbing sink anticipation knit lines toolable geometry and collaboration with tooling engineers and mould flow analysis.
You have demonstrated success leading technical teams with credibility grounded in real-world product development and DFMA best practices. You foster accountability collaboration and continuous improvement.
You communicate clearly across functions and levels provide effective direction and present technical information with confidence. You understand client objectives manage expectations translate requirements into practical engineering solutions identify process gaps and positively influence decisions.
You manage multiple priorities navigate change make sound decisions and consistently deliver high-quality work on time.

A virtual interview with a Talent Advisor discussing your interest in the role. The conversation will be recorded using BrightHire an AI-powered video interview tool. A virtual interview with the Director of Engineering will give you a chance to share your experience in people leadership engineering management and process improvement.
A final in-person interview with the Director of Engineering VP of Manufacturing and the Materials and Production Process Specialist to learn more about the role and the vision for the team.

Diversity equity and inclusion are a critical component of life at Array Marketing and we are committed to making these values an integral part of our culture. We encourage applications from all qualified applicants including women persons with disabilities Black Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) people from the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Transsexual Queer Questioning Two-Spirit Intersex Asexual (LGBTQ2SIA) community and other equity-seeking groups.

Array Marketing is committed to providing accessible employment practices that are in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).