Director of Engineering

Array Marketing•Toronto, ON

4d•$175,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

Array Marketing is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead, scale, and shape the global direction of engineering across a distributed organization spanning North America and offshore teams. This role will oversee Development, Detailing, and Engineering functions, ensuring alignment between global strategy and regional execution. The Director will be accountable for establishing best-in-class engineering standards, systems, governance models, and processes that improve speed, cost, quality, and scalability. This is a highly visible leadership role within a fast-moving product development environment, requiring a hands-on engineering leader who thrives in agile manufacturing environments and can balance technical depth with strong people leadership, operational discipline, and executive presence. The position offers an opportunity to lead and grow an engineering function, drive modernization initiatives across engineering systems, automation, AI-enabled technologies, and operational workflows, and play a key role in shaping the future of engineering. The work is critical to helping clients engage with their buyers and create great experiences, and the Director will influence engineering strategy across multiple regions, strengthen leadership capability, and build scalable engineering practices to support Array’s continued growth.

Requirements

Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, or similar background.
Well-grounded experience using SolidWorks, AutoCAD, and Adobe Creative Suite.
Strong technical depth across manufacturing engineering environments, including plastics, metals, and assemblies.
Advanced SolidWorks expertise, including hands-on experience with PDM Vault for data governance and version control, SolidWorks Manage for workflow and change management, and DriveWorks or similar design automation tools.
Comfortable leveraging AI-enabled engineering technologies to improve design efficiency, automation, and decision-making.
Strong understanding of ERP systems and their integration with engineering data, BOMs, and downstream manufacturing processes.
Experience using PMO and project management systems to track engineering deliverables and project data.
Effective and credible leader who can build and nurture strong relationships across all levels of an organization.
Demonstrated success leading distributed global teams and managing outsourced engineering partners while fostering collaboration, accountability, and alignment across functions.
Skilled at creating performance-driven cultures with clear expectations and measurable outcomes.
Enterprise-wide mindset that enables influencing cross-functional leaders and driving business objectives through engineering excellence.
Strong executive presence, communication skills, and the ability to effectively engage technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
Experience managing multiple simultaneous projects of moderate to high complexity within fast-paced engineering and manufacturing environments.
Ability to confidently lead technical design, planning, prioritization, and execution while maintaining strong organizational discipline under compressed timelines.
Valid passport and willingness and ability to travel intermittently both domestically and internationally.
Strong onsite presence at our Toronto-area office is required.

Responsibilities

Lead, develop and mentor all direct reports, conducting performance management cycles with clear expectations, structured feedback, and individualized development plans.
Build a strong leadership bench through succession planning and coaching future managers and technical leaders.
Bring a visible, hands-on leadership style that fosters accountability, engagement, collaboration, and strong cross-functional relationships across the business.
Work collaboratively with the Creative Design Department, Project Managers, Manufacturing Engineering, and the Production Teams to establish expectations and deliverables on assigned projects.
Manage the overall schedule of deliverables for the entire team and direct and oversee all phases of engineering development.
Partner with Commercial Operations, Estimating, and Prototyping teams, ensuring clear accountability across functions and alignment of engineering outputs to business priorities.
Foster a culture of innovative thinking and creative exploration, balanced with a commitment to practicality and delivering solutions that align with the project's objectives.
Develop a long-term strategic and visionary direction for the engineering department.
Implement initiatives aimed at enhancing the cost-effectiveness of engineering operations while upholding quality standards.
Establish global engineering standards, governance models, and best practices.
Drive enterprise-wide engineering excellence initiatives (cost, speed-to-market, quality).
Lead engineering systems and digital transformation efforts.
Embed VA/VE (Value Analysis / Value Engineering) discipline into engineering development practices.
Interact with other departments to ensure client deadlines are met and make recommendations to improve process methods, team performance, and the quality of work.
Lead structured process optimization initiatives across tools, workflows, and engineering systems to improve efficiency and scalability.
Uphold company policies and enforce safety regulations, ensuring 5S standards for the department are met and corrective actions are identified.
Ensure all work is conducted per the Occupational Health & Safety Act & Regulations and the health, safety, and environmental policies, procedures, and policies of Array Canada.