A Day in Your Life at MKS As the Director of Engineering at MKS, you will lead a multidisciplinary engineering organization responsible for the development, commercialization, and sustainment of advanced sensing and characterization solutions used in next-generation semiconductor manufacturing. Reporting directly to the General Manager, you will provide strategic leadership across engineering, technology development, product innovation, and organizational capability building. You will oversee the successful execution of the engineering portfolio while shaping the long-term technology roadmap, advancing engineering best practices, and ensuring alignment between engineering priorities and business objectives. As a key member of the leadership team, you will play an instrumental role in driving growth, fostering innovation, and developing the engineering organization required to support the company's long-term success. By Providing strong leadership to the engineering organization, establishing clear priorities, goals, performance expectations, and accountability measures. Building, developing, and leading a high-performing engineering organization through effective talent acquisition, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and employee development. Serving as a member of the leadership team and acting as a change agent to improve organizational effectiveness, operational excellence, and scalability. Defining and executing the long-term engineering strategy, technology roadmap, and capability development plans aligned with company objectives and market opportunities. Leading the engineering organization through the complete product lifecycle, including concept development, design, prototyping, validation, regulatory compliance, manufacturing transfer, product launch, and sustaining engineering.



Ensuring new products and technology initiatives are delivered on time, within budget, and to specification while meeting quality, reliability, manufacturability, and cost objectives. Developing and managing engineering resource plans, budgets, capital investments, and organizational capabilities to support strategic growth initiatives. Establishing and monitoring key engineering performance indicators, including product development execution, quality, innovation, organizational effectiveness, and operational performance. Providing technical oversight for system architecture, platform strategy, design reviews, and engineering governance to ensure robust and scalable product development. Overseeing technical risk management activities, including design reviews, FMEA, verification and validation planning, and product reliability assessments. Establishing engineering best practices that drive design excellence, data-driven decision making, continuous improvement, and successful product commercialization. Partnering closely with Product Management, Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Sales, and Marketing to define product requirements and execution strategies. Engaging with strategic customers, partners, and industry stakeholders to understand emerging market requirements and translate customer needs into product and technology strategies. Ensuring products are designed for manufacturability,



quality, reliability, scalability, serviceability, and long-term competitiveness. Championing a culture of innovation, collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning across the engineering organization. Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Engineering Physics, or a related discipline. ~ is considered an asset. ~12+ years of progressive engineering experience in product development, technology development, advanced manufacturing, or related technical environments. ~7+ years of leadership experience managing engineering teams, programs, or organizations, including responsibility for talent development and organizational planning. ~ Experience leading engineering organizations in a fast-paced technology environment. ~ Strong people leadership, coaching, mentoring, and organizational development capabilities. ~ Solid business acumen with the ability to balance technical excellence, operational performance, and commercial objectives. ~ Experience managing engineering budgets, capital investments, and resource planning activities. ~ Strong understanding of program management principles, stage-gate development processes, and risk-based decision making. ~ Deep understanding of engineering design, analysis, prototyping, verification, validation, reliability, and product development methodologies. ~ Strong working knowledge of Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), FMEA, root cause analysis, and engineering change management processes. ~ Experience leading complex multidisciplinary system development involving mechanical, electrical, optical, firmware, software, and systems engineering disciplines. ~ Expertise in at least

📌 Remote Engineering Manager (Winnipeg)
🏢 MKS Instruments
📍 Winnipeg