Engineering Machine Design Lead

Join a global manufacturing leader where innovation, precision, and quality come together. Behm Consulting is recruiting for a direct hire opportunity with Paper Machinery Corporation (PMC), located at 8900 W. Bradley Road, Milwaukee, WI. Since 1951, PMC has been designing and building world-class paperboard cup and container forming equipment for customers around the globe. If you're looking to build your career with an innovative manufacturer that values quality, teamwork, and continuous improvement in a clean, climate-controlled manufacturing facility, we'd love to hear from you.

Job Overview:

The Machine Design Team Lead is responsible for leading the design, development, and validation of high-speed industrial machinery. This role combines technical leadership, people development, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver innovative, reliable, and manufacturable machine solutions. The Machine Design Team Lead partners closely with the Tooling and Controls Leads, Operations, Sales, and Product Management to ensure projects meet performance, quality, cost, and schedule objectives while maintaining rigorous engineering standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the mechanical design and development of high-speed automated machinery from concept through production release.
• Establish and maintain engineering design standards, best practices, and design review processes.
• Ensure designs meet performance, reliability, safety, manufacturability, and cost objectives.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a small team to enhance performance and professional growth.
• Apply engineering rigor through analytical methods, calculations, simulations, and structured validation activities.
• Utilize Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and other engineering tools to validate designs and improve performance.
• Develop and execute design verification and validation plans to ensure product requirements are met.
• Partner with operations to ensure efficient manufacturing processes.
• Collaborate with sales, engineering, and service teams to ensure successful machine integration and support in the field.
• Provide regular status updates and technical recommendations to engineering leadership.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or related engineering field.
• High speed (200-300 cycles/minute) machine design experience in a design lead role within an OEM machinery, packaging, automation, or related manufacturing environment. Would expect 5+ years in a similar role but actual experience, responsibility, and ownership will take precedence.
• Strong proficiency with 3D CAD software (Inventor or SolidWorks)
• Experience performing and interpreting FEA analysis.
• Experience with design rigor, validation, testing, and documentation.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and project management skills.

• Excellent relationship and team building skills.
• Demonstrated success mentoring and developing team members.