Mechanical Design Principal Engineer - Chassis

Job Purpose

Provide technical leadership and management for a Powersports design function by guiding engineering output, supervising team execution, and ensuring delivery of high-quality specifications, designs, and development results. This role integrates technical expertise with organizational leadership to achieve business objectives, advance product development, maintain global quality standards, and strengthen overall engineering capability.

Key Accountabilities

• Direct and approve engineering output by reviewing design specifications, calculations, drawings, and documentation to ensure accuracy, quality, and alignment with targets.
• Lead technical problem solving for development and mass production issues, driving root cause analysis, countermeasures, and risk mitigation.
• Lead, supervise, and contribute within a design team to realize development deliverables across multiple concurrent projects.
• Assign and balance workload, priorities, and resources to achieve development schedules and business targets.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and technical guidance to develop team capability and ensure consistent output quality.
• Drive effective communication within the function and across other functions/ departments to resolve issues, align expectations, and ensure smooth execution.
• Represent the function in discussions with management, suppliers, and global affiliates to advocate technical direction and resource needs.
• Grow technical capability through knowledge sharing, mentorship, and development of best practices.
• Improve design processes, tools, and methods to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and repeatability (e.g., PDCA, recurrence prevention).
• Promote cross-functional learning and adoption of standardized engineering practices.
• Lead hiring and performance evaluation processes to maintain a capable and balanced organization. Support workforce planning process.
• Assist in establishing team and individual goals aligned with business objectives.
• Contribute to management activities such as planning, policy adherence, and operational continuity when needed.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

Minimum Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering for relevant field. (eg: Mechanical).
• Equivalent experience may be considered.

Minimum Experience:

• 8+ Years related work experience preferably in Powersports or Automotive field
• 2+ Years supervisory/project leadership in a similar organization.

Other Job-Specific Skills:

• Capable at providing direction to direct reports according to established policies and management guidelines.
• Strong leadership, coaching and mentoring skills.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to interact/communicate effectively with staff/management in a global organization.
• Able to resolve conflict and lead crucial conversations.
• Must be able to operate with high level of confidentiality.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook).
• Competent in FTA, FMEA, dimensional tolerance stack-ups and application.
• Competent analytical, problem solving, judgement, decision-making and prioritization.
• Competent drawing and layout skills/techniques using CAD software, including understanding of CAE principles.
• Competent in creating a plan and schedule.
• Competent in understand product development schedules.

Working Conditions

• Travel: Average of 3-5 times annually. Amount varies based on project demands/responsibilities, conferences, etc.; includes possible overseas travel.
• Physical: Primarily works at a desk or scope; frequent keyboarding. Limited kneeling, standing, squatting, reaching or bending.
• Hazards: Risks found in a typical office & shop setting. May be exposed to explosives/flammables, pressurized equipment, toxic chemicals and moving parts.
• Overtime: Overtime expected based on project demands/responsibilities.
• Maintains professional conduct and follows all departmental, safety DEPARTMENT, and COMPANY policies, Procedures, AND rules.