Senior Manager Mechanical Engineering

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Mechanical Engineering functional authority and champion engineering excellence across the team.
• Establish, standardize, and continuously improve mechanical engineering tools, processes, methodologies, and best practices.
• Drive technical rigor through participation in architecture reviews, design reviews, risk assessments, and problem-solving activities.
• Ensure consistency in engineering approaches, design quality, documentation, and compliance with applicable quality management system requirements.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Assess the feasibility and soundness of proposed engineering tasks, build a resource plan for completion of these tasks, and track progress.

Talent Development & People Leadership

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of mechanical engineers across multiple experience levels.
• Create competency development roadmaps aligned with current and future business needs.
• Foster a learning culture that encourages technical growth, collaboration, innovation, and leadership development.
• Recruit and retain high-performing engineering talent.

Operational Excellence & Team Effectiveness

• Improve team productivity, engineering efficiency, and overall quality of work products.
• Establish metrics that measure functional health, capability growth, engineering quality, and execution effectiveness.
• Drive disciplined engineering governance and adherence to structured development processes.
• Promote the use of data-driven decision making, lessons learned, and continuous improvement practices.
• Ensure effective prioritization and allocation of engineering resources in partnership with delivery leadership.

Global Collaboration & Strategic Alignment

• Partner with Mechanical Engineering functional leaders across North America and Europe to establish a unified Mechanical Engineering strategy.
• Drive alignment of mechanical engineering tools, development processes, design methodologies, standards, and best practices across the global organization.
• Share resources, lessons learned, technical expertise, and organizational best practices to improve overall Hardware Engineering performance.
• Contribute to the long-term strategic direction of the Pharmacy Automation Hardware Engineering organization.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Collaborate closely with Hardware Delivery Leads to ensure the team possesses the capabilities, capacity, and expertise necessary to meet program objectives.
• Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Service, Systems Engineering, and Program Management teams to ensure successful product development and lifecycle management.
• Influence technical direction and decision-making across programs through strong leadership and engineering judgment.