Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineering Job

We are looking for a hands-on talented Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager to join the Nordson EFD team. In this role you will be responsible for leading a team of mechanical engineers, technicians, and drafting/doc. control specialist. The team’s core competency is designing and developing electro-mechanical systems and plastic consumable parts for precision fluid dispensing used in advanced manufacturing processes and medical fluid handling. You and your team will work on complex hardware-software interaction problems that require strong analytical and data driven approaches to make our products smarter, connected and intelligent.

How YOU will make an impact:

* Lead and develop a team that will own mechanical design of electro-mechanical actuators, sensors, machined/molded/sheet-metal components and overall packaging on our products taking it from concept to production launch.
* Hire, mentor and provide guidance to the team that cultivates a collaborative and inclusive environment to achieve technical excellence and maintain a customer centric focus.
* Continuously improve our design and documentation process, conduct design reviews and review validation plans and results.
* Work with external vendors and partners to optimize design and augment internal capabilities.
* Contribute to our product/technology roadmap development, annual ops planning and strategic planning.
* Manage regular interactions with peers and management within engineering, operations, technical sales and product line management.
* Provide direction and decision-making support as needed to sustain current products during quality escalations or supply chain disruptions.
* Own infrastructure of our design validation lab coordinating with other functional competencies.

Qualifications To Be Successful:

* 10 years’ experience in electro-mechanical product development, with a minimum of 3 years managing a team of more than five engineers.
* Strong analytical skills and engineering fundamentals in solid mechanics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, mechanism design (using 3D CAD Solidworks), and manufacturing processes.
* Proven track record of leading a team that contributes to a multidisciplinary fast paced product development environment.
* Have creatively and collaboratively solved problems with experience in failure analysis, root cause investigation, Design of Experiments and FMEA.
* Strong communications skills, high levels of agility and a strong sense of ownership.
* Bachelors in Mechanical engineering, Graduate degree preferred.

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