.fit_to_content{width:%;height:auto}Your role
As the Engineering Manager at PC Cologne, your mission is to lead the engineering organization in delivering innovative, high-quality, and sustainable product solutions that support the company’s long-term profitable growth and operational excellence. You are responsible for driving energy and speed in development, fostering a culture of agility, and ensuring that engineering capabilities are aligned with business needs and customer expectations.
A key strategic priority is to maintain and strengthen PC Cologne’s leadership position in vacuum technology, ensuring our solutions remain at the forefront of scientific and industrial innovation.
Your leadership will be instrumental in building a motivated, high-performing engineering team, structured for collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. You will champion agile product development methodologies to accelerate time-to-market, enhance cross-functional integration, and increase responsiveness to change.
To succeed, you will need
1. Accelerating product development cycles by embedding agile principles, iterative design, and rapid prototyping
2. Driving energy and speed in development through clear prioritization, empowered teams, and streamlined decision-making
3. Ensuring engineering excellence in design, quality, manufacturability, and serviceability
4. Fostering a strong engineering culture built on motivation, ownership, and technical mastery
5. Developing a scalable and efficient team structure that supports collaboration across disciplines and geographies
6. Standardizing processes and tools to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency
7. Establishing clear KPIs and performance metrics to track progress and accountability
8. Driving disciplined project execution and risk management across all development phases
9. Supporting design for service and sustainability in all new product developments
10. Enhancing cross-functional collaboration with procurement, production, logistics, and service to ensure seamless product lifecycle integration
11. Investing in talent development through mentoring, training, and succession planning to build future-ready engineering capabilities
12. Contributing to Project Purple by aligning engineering strategies with long-term footprint and technology roadmaps
13. Ensuring compliance with quality, safety, and regulatory standards in all engineering activities
14. Continuously advancing our expertise in vacuum technology, ensuring our products remain differentiated, reliable, and aligned with evolving customer needs
In return, we offer
15. Culture of trust and accountability
16. Lifelong learning and career growth
17. Innovation powered by people
18. Comprehensive compensation and benefits
19. Health and well-being
Contact information
Talent Acquisition Team: David Gabriel