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.