Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineering

Collaboration drives Nordson's success as a market leader in Industrial Precision Solutions and Advanced Technology. Our employees thrive in an environment where we help each other reach our personal best and enable our company to continuously improve and grow, and our customers to succeed. You will find Nordson employees sharing our success by giving back in the communities around the world where we live and work.

From the mobile device in your pocket to the sensors in your car, and even life-saving medical devices, Nordson's technology is used to make products that touch your life every day. Do you want to join a growing team in a market-leading technology company? We're looking for motivated individuals who care about helping our customers succeed. If you value integrity, respect for people, customer passion, energy, and excellence, you'll fit right in to the Nordson culture.

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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