About the Role
Lead the implementation of emerging technologies from early-stage prototypes through to scalable, deployable design standards. Ensure new products function in real environments and identify and solve integration challenges.
Responsibilities
- Own the implementation path for new products from prototype through standardization
- Work directly with engineering, product, facilities, security, and operations teams to validate real-world requirements early
- Translate prototypes and concepts into deployable solutions that can be installed, maintained, and scaled
- Identify integration risks across physical environments and drive mitigation plans
- Coordinate with external vendors, manufacturers, and consultants to ensure solutions are viable and executable
- Build and manage the R&D implementation roadmap, ensuring infrastructure and readiness align with product development
- Communicate status, risks, and key decisions across stakeholders
- Respond quickly to incoming R&D issues and drive resolution across teams
- Independently review drawing sets, submittments, and specifications to identify gaps, risks, and implementation issues
- Provide guidance to project teams on approaches to achieve client and business objectives
- Ensure that key information and learnings generated from each project is captured
- Identify ways to improve internal systems and processes as they relate to R&D and team objectives
- Lead product vetting against design standards, permitting, and code requirements
- Define and document repeatable standards based on validated solutions
- Drive final documentation approval with team leads, ensuring standards, specifications, and design outputs are validated prior to release
- Facilitate working sessions to align cross-functional teams where requirements are unclear or conflicting
- Document learnings and help shape emerging design standards and processes
- Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable
Requirements
- Mechanical engineering background strongly preferred
- Experience with R&D environments, labs, or prototyping workflows
- Background in industrial design or product design validation
- Experience with vendor and external partner management
- Familiarity with permitting, codes, and compliance considerations
- Experience working in ambiguous or early-stage programs
- Ability to evaluate how products interact with real-world constraints
- Proven ability to take concepts or early-stage designs and make them executable in real-world environments
- Strong organizational and management skills
- Strong requirements gathering and problem-solving skills
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Experience reviewing and providing QA/QC of design drawings, technical documents, and/or product specifications
Skills
- AutoCAD
- Revit
- Miro
- Asana
- Bluebeam Revu
- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace
Location
- On-site presence may change depending on client needs
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5–8+ years of experience in roles such as: Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Engineering, Architecture (with strong technical/build focus & engineering collaboration), Product implementation / hardware deployment, Industrial or systems design tied to physical environments
- Experience working with physical products, systems, or infrastructure
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, architecture, or equivalent experience with physical system design/implementation
Salary/Compensations
- $140K-$170K per year
Benefits
- Great place to work
- Opportunity and voice to affect change
- Healthy, productive and flexible working environment
- Respects work-life balance
About the Company
- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
- Working with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.
- Capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
- Majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc.
- Work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Equal Opportunity
- Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
