Senior Manager – Mechanical Engineering

Overview

Lead and scale the MKS India Center – Engineering mechanical engineering organization across product architecture, mechanical design, vacuum and flow systems, precision assemblies, CAD, analysis, prototyping, qualification, industrialization, and lifecycle engineering, working with global teams across the complete product lifecycle.

What you'll do

• Lead mechanical architecture, design, CAD, analysis, qualification, and lifecycle engineering.
• Guide programs from concept and prototype through validation, NPI, industrialization, and sustaining.
• Set standards for CAD, GD&T, drawings, tolerances, design reviews, manufacturability, and reliability.
• Build rapid-prototyping and machined-part capabilities to accelerate design learning.
• Advance structural, thermal, flow, vibration, reliability, and design-optimization methods.
• Drive value engineering, standardization, reuse, alternate sourcing, and lifecycle cost improvement.
• Build technical depth and future leaders through hiring, mentoring, and succession planning.
• Align global teams on roadmaps, resources, standards, and accountability.
• Use automation, analytics, knowledge reuse, and approved AI tools to improve speed and quality.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical, Mechatronics or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of mechanical engineering experience, including leadership of multidisciplinary engineering teams and managers.
• Strong technical depth in product architecture, mechanical design, precision assemblies, CAD, GD&T, tolerance analysis, materials, and manufacturing processes.
• Experience leading the product lifecycle from architecture and prototype development through validation, qualification, NPI, industrialization, and sustaining.
• Experience with rapid prototyping, precision machining or fabrication, supplier collaboration, design analysis, reliability, and failure investigation.
• Demonstrated systems thinking, organization building, global collaboration, and product-minded decision-making.
• Experience improving engineering effectiveness through standards, reuse, simulation, automation, analytics, or AI-enabled tools.

Nice to have

• Leadership experience in semiconductor equipment, precision instrumentation, industrial automation or other complex high-reliability products.
• Track record in mechanical architecture, platform development, rapid prototyping, qualification, reliability, industrialization, and lifecycle competitiveness.
• Experience scaling an India-based global engineering team.

Details

• Location: Bangalore Whitefield, India.
• Certain positions require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to export control regulations; applicants may be limited by citizenship, country of origin, or immigration status where required by law, and employment may be contingent on governmental licensing.
• Background checks and drug screens are conducted in accordance with applicable law and company policies.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities; contact accommodationsatMKS@mksinst.com.