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Grow your passion into a rewarding profession by joining a dynamic and expanding organization. You’llplay a vital role that supports your success and helps drive safe, efficient, and reliable operations across industries worldwide. Anova offers opportunities that empower you to:\nInnovate with cutting-edgeIIoTtechnology\n\nBe part of a global, mission-driven team\nGrow your skills through hands-on experience and development\nMake a measurable impact across industries worldwide\nJoin us on the Hardware Engineering team as a Mechanical + Manufacturing Engineering Manager, and help shape the future of safer, more efficient, and more reliable operations across the globe. Start your journey with Anova today!\nRole Summary\nWe are hiring a Mechanical + Manufacturing Engineering Manager to lead a team owning mechanical product design, mechanical engineering, manufacturing processes, fixtures, assembly flows, and build readiness. This role requires strong mechanical domain expertiseand experience collaborating with manufacturing partners ranging from in-house to contract manufacturers and subcomponent suppliers. This is an ideal fit for a seasoned engineer ready to formalize their leadership career, or an engineering manager with strong foundations as an individual contributor.\nJob Duties and Responsibilities:\nLead a team of ME and MFG Process engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous growth. Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations; set clear goals and provide meaningful feedback.\nChampion structured engineering workflows and drive process improvements to those workflows.\nOversee team contributions to 8D investigations, design changes for active product lines, new product development, production process definition, tooling and fixture creation, and process controls. Providetechnical guidance and supportdecision-making to ensure high-quality engineering outputs.\nManage team capacity, workload distribution, and resource planning; partner with project managers on schedule, risks, issue tracking, and communication. Serve as project manager for some activeprojects or sub-initiatives.\nCoordinate closely within ME/MFG group and with other engineering teams to ensure co-design is tightly coordinated, interfaces are defined, issues are resolved in a timely manner, and full solution design is delivered for EVT/DVT/PVT builds.\nWhat you’llneed to succeed:\nMinimum Requirements -\nBachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a relateddiscipline, or equivalent experience.\n5+ years in mechanical design engineering, manufacturing engineering, process engineering, or related fields.\nStrong communicationand technical documentation skills.\nLeadership experience - formally or informally - across projects or teams, with demonstratedability to influence outcomes, develop others, drive engineering decisions, and deliver initiatives cross-functionally.\nComfortable working cross-functionally in fast-paced hardware development cycles (EVT/DVT/PVT).\nExperience with DFM/DFA for electro-mechanical systems and close collaboration with contract manufacturers.\nExposure tofixture design, mechanical process validation, and manufacturing documentation.\nProficiencywith 3D CAD tools and mechanical analysis fundamentals.\nPreferred Qualifications -\nExperience managing a team through a full product lifecycle, from NPD through keeping the lights on for the installed base.\nDirect experience with contract manufacturer launches and process validation.\nFamiliarity with PLM/ECO workflows\nExperience owning scheduleand riskfor cross-functional initiatives.\nExposure toLean, Six Sigma, or ASQ. Certifications a bonus.\nABOUT ANOVA\nWe are very proudly “one” Anova - built by integrating the best in IIoT technology and expertise. Anova monitors more than 1,250,000 assets across nearly 80 countries for over 2000 clients, from family businesses to the largest LPG, Industrial Gases, and chemicals companies in the world. Our scale is global. Our service is local. We partner directly with customers, taking a holistic approach and delivering tailored solutions that drive innovation and improvement and make our world safer, more efficient, and reliable.\nWe believe that rewarding work should reward you. As part of Anova, your work, integrity, and commitment are rewarded through competitive compensation and reward strategies, through sincere appreciation, and through opportunities for growth and advancement. We put people first by providing benefits that support your life and well-being, from health and finance to recognition and reward, and so much more - we've got you covered.\nIf this sounds like a fit for you, apply to join Anova in connecting the industrial world - for better.\nFor more information about how Anova is transforming the Industrial IOT industry, visit us at Anova.com.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5035,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["IoT Platforms & Solutions","Industrial IoT (IIoT)"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-09T23:00:04Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-10T01:06:04Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/anova-engineering-manager-mechanical-manufacturing","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/anova-engineering-manager-mechanical-manufacturing.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T01:06:04Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2418,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":669765},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=669765"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fanova-engineering-manager-mechanical-manufacturing"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fanova-engineering-manager-mechanical-manufacturing"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fanova-engineering-manager-mechanical-manufacturing"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/anova-engineering-manager-mechanical-manufacturing\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fanova-engineering-manager-mechanical-manufacturing"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3989755}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"anova.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3989755},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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