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 Allentown, PA, 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

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, or other engineering discipline.

• 8+ years of progressive experience in mechanical engineering, equipment design, or manufacturing engineering.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience managing 3D CAD design, detailed drawings, bills of material, and design release for complex equipment or engineered products.

• Proficiency with SOLIDWORKS for parts, assemblies, configurations, drawings, design tables, and reusable design libraries.

• Experience with product lifecycle management (PLM), product data management (PDM), ERP, and formal document-control systems.

• Knowledge of piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), process flow diagrams (PFDs), pressure-containing components, thermal systems, and equipment packaging.

• Familiarity with applicable equipment safety, pressure, electrical-interface, and machinery standards in a regulated manufacturing environment.

• Ability to communicate clearly and work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional, and global environment.

Pay Range for this position - $118,500 - $177,700/year

The offer range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base pay compensation for this position. The actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level of experience, education, skills, and other job-related factors. Position may be eligible for sales or performance-based bonuses. Benefits offered by the Company include health insurance, paid time off (PTO), retirement contributions, and other perquisites. For more information click here.

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!