Manager Engineering (f/m/d)

Your role

• Accelerating product development cycles by embedding agile principles, iterative design approaches, and rapid prototyping
• Driving energy and speed in development through clear prioritization, empowered teams, and streamlined decision-making processes
• Ensuring engineering excellence in design, quality, manufacturability, and serviceability
• Fostering a strong engineering culture built on motivation, ownership, and technical expertise
• Developing a scalable and efficient team structure that supports collaboration across functions and locations
• Standardizing processes and tools to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency
• Establishing clear KPIs and performance metrics to measure progress and accountability
• Ensuring disciplined project execution and effective risk management throughout all development phases
• Incorporating serviceability and sustainability considerations into all new product developments
• Strengthening cross-functional collaboration with procurement, production, logistics, and service teams to ensure seamless product lifecycle integration
• Promoting employee development through mentoring, training, and succession planning to build future-ready engineering capabilities
• Supporting Project Purple by aligning engineering strategies with long-term site and technology roadmaps
• Ensuring compliance with quality, safety, and regulatory requirements across all engineering activities
• Continuously expanding our expertise in vacuum technology to ensure our products remain differentiated, reliable, and aligned with evolving customer needs.

To succeed, you will need

• Completed Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field
• Several years of relevant professional experience in Research & Development within an industrial environment are required
• Proven experience in leadership positions or strategic/conceptual roles
• Strong entrepreneurial mindset and business acumen
• Extensive experience in leading, developing, and coaching employees, as well as managing cross-functional teams
• Strong results-oriented analytical understanding of cost structures, lead times, inventory management, and investment decisions
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills across all levels of the organization
• High level of energy, initiative, and motivation
• Very good English skills and excellent German language skills, both written and spoken, are required.

In return, we offer

• Culture of trust and accountability
• Lifelong learning and career growth
• Innovation powered by people
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits
• Health and well-being

Contact information

Talent Acquisition Team: David Gabriel