Engineering Manager Mechanical Engineering

A Day in Your Life at MKS

The Engineering Manager – Mechanical Engineering will lead a team delivering mechanical engineering across sustaining, custom product design, value engineering, prototyping, qualification, manufacturing support, NPI, and product development.

This hands-on leader will own technical execution, delivery, quality, and team development for an assigned portfolio while increasing team accountability from individual tasks toward complete deliverables and workstreams.

You Will Make an Impact By

• Lead mechanical execution across sustaining, product design, value engineering, prototyping, qualification, NPI, and manufacturing support.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in mechanical design, precision assemblies, vacuum-compatible design, materials, tolerances, and interfaces.
• Own team priorities, resources, commitments, risks, and delivery.
• Drive concepts, design reviews, CAD, GD&T, tolerance analysis, manufacturability, reliability, and engineering change discipline.
• Lead prototype and machined-part development, supplier technical engagement, build evaluation, and design iteration.
• Use analysis and simulation to improve structural, thermal, flow, vibration, reliability, and first-pass design performance.
• Partner across Validation, Manufacturing, Quality, Sourcing, Value Engineering, and global teams on qualification, industrialization, cost, and lifecycle issues.
• Coach engineers and technical leads while building capability, ownership, automation, and continuous improvement.

Key Result Areas

Delivery and Quality: On-time delivery, design quality, commitment reliability, and issue resolution.

Development Speed: Prototype lead time, design-iteration cycle, first-pass success, and qualification readiness.

Lifecycle Value: Cost improvement, manufacturability, reuse, alternate-source readiness, and sustaining effectiveness.

Talent and Ownership: Skill growth, time to productivity, retention, technical-lead development, and progression toward deliverable and workstream ownership.

Skills You Bring:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Manufacturing, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of mechanical engineering experience, including 3+ years of engineering leadership.
• Strong technical depth in mechanical design, CAD, GD&T, tolerance analysis, materials, manufacturing processes, and precision assemblies.
• Experience delivering mechanical products or subsystems through design, prototype, verification, qualification, industrialization, sustaining, and manufacturing support.
• Hands-on experience with machined or fabricated parts, prototype builds, design reviews, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and supplier collaboration.
• Working knowledge of structural, thermal, flow, vibration, or other analysis methods appropriate to complex engineered products.
• Strong execution, people leadership, global collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in semiconductor equipment, precision instrumentation, industrial automation, or similar complex products.
• Experience with rapid prototyping, precision machining, qualification, reliability, DFM/DFA, and product industrialization.
• Experience using simulation, automation, engineering data, and approved AI tools to improve mechanical engineering productivity and quality.

Globally, our policy is to recruit individuals from wide and diverse backgrounds. However, certain positions require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to various export control regulations.  Applicants for these positions may be limited (by, for example, their countries of citizenship, country of origin, or immigration status) where required by law or governmental contact, and/or employment made contingent upon the issuance of appropriate governmental licensing.

MKS Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“MKS”) is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer: diverse candidates are encouraged to apply. We win as a team and are committed to recruiting and hiring qualified applicants regardless of race, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), religion, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability or handicap, marital status, membership in the uniformed services, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law. Hiring decisions are based on merit, qualifications and business needs. We conduct background checks and drug screens, in accordance with applicable law and company policies.  MKS is generally only hiring candidates who reside in states where we are registered to do business.

MKS is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process due to a disability, please contact us at: [email protected] .

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