Design Engineering Manager

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Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
Everything we do in EMD Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high-tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries. We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers.
This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
Your Role:
The Mechanical Design Engineering Manager leads the CAD design and mechanical engineering team supporting EMD Electronics equipment and delivery-system products. This role is accountable for design quality, engineering execution, people leadership, and the development of scalable, modular product designs that meet customer, manufacturing, safety, and regulatory requirements.
Based in Austin, TX, the manager partners with Product Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Applications, Project Management, Supply Chain, Quality, and Operations across global sites. The role establishes strong CAD and drawing practices, ensures disciplined design release and change control, and builds team capability to support new product development, configure-to-order (CTO), engineer-to-order (ETO), and product sustaining priorities.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead, coach, and develop a team of mechanical design engineers and CAD designers, including hiring, objective setting, performance management, succession planning, and technical capability development.
Own mechanical design execution and CAD deliverables from concept through design release, manufacturing support, validation, and lifecycle changes.
Establish and sustain CAD standards, drawing practices, model structure, libraries, templates, design checklists, and peer-review processes.
Drive the development of reusable, modular 3D designs and product platforms that improve CTO and ETO speed, quality, and manufacturability.
Ensure drawings, bills of material, specifications, and technical documentation are accurate, complete, configuration-controlled, and released on schedule.
Provide technical oversight for mechanical layouts, frames, enclosures, piping assemblies, sheet metal, machined components, thermal considerations, and equipment interfaces.
Ensure application of ASME Y14.5 geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), tolerance-stack analysis, design-for-manufacture and assembly (DFMA), and sound mechanical design principles.
Partner with Quality and cross-functional engineering teams on design risk management, including DFMEA, verification planning, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
Champion disciplined engineering change request and engineering change order (ECR/ECO) governance, including impact assessment, approvals, documentation, and implementation readiness.
Develop capacity plans, workload forecasts, priorities, delivery metrics, and recovery actions to achieve schedule, quality, and budget commitments.
Support technical quotations and early project definition by providing design concepts, effort estimates, risk inputs, and engineering assumptions.
Collaborate with manufacturing teams in Allentown and Chandler to resolve design-related production issues and improve first-time-right execution.
Drive continuous improvement and appropriate digital tools, automation, and CAD/PLM practices to improve engineering productivity and design reuse.
Who You Are

Skills
Project Management, Risk Management, Documentation

Experience
5+ yrs