Manager Engineering (f/m/d)

In this Engineering Manager role, you will lead and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on vacuum technology. You’ll drive agile product development to shorten cycles and improve cross-functional collaboration, while upholding design excellence, manufacturability, and serviceability. You’ll shape a scalable team, standardize processes, and embed KPIs to ensure accountable, high-impact delivery. This position offers the chance to influence long-term technology roadmaps and contribute to a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

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

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering organization across geographies
• Embed agile principles to accelerate product development and time-to-market
• Ensure design quality, manufacturability, and serviceability in all products
• Standardize processes and tools for consistency and efficiency
• Define and track KPIs to monitor progress and accountability
• Drive disciplined project execution and risk management across development phases
• Promote design for service and sustainability in new products
• Foster cross-functional collaboration with procurement, production, logistics, and service
• Invest in talent development through mentoring, training, and succession planning
• Align engineering strategies with long-term footprint and technology roadmaps (Project Purple)
• Ensure compliance with quality, safety, and regulatory standards
• Continuously advance vacuum technology expertise to differentiate products

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in mechanical engineering, physics, or an equivalent field
• Several years of relevant R&D experience in an industrial setting
• Proven leadership or conceptual roles
• Strong entrepreneurial mindset
• Extensive experience leading and developing employees and cross-functional teams
• Analytical understanding of cost structures, lead times, inventory, and investment decisions
• Excellent communication and persuasion skills at all organizational levels
• High energy and motivation
• Very good English and excellent German (spoken and written)

• leadership
• cross-functional collaboration
• clear prioritization
• agile product development
• design for manufacturability and serviceability
• risk management