Engineering Manager

Functional Area: Engineering

Ort: Germany

Stadt: Köln

On-site/remote: Sur place

Marke: Leybold

Company Name: Leybold GmbH

Date of Posting: August 13, 2026

Last date to apply: December 31, 2026

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Engineering Manager Your role

A key strategic priority is to maintain and strengthen the site’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

Accelerating product development cycles by embedding agile principles, iterative design, and rapid prototyping

Driving energy and speed in development through clear prioritization, empowered teams, and streamlined decision-making

Ensuring engineering excellence in design, quality, manufacturability, and serviceability

Fostering a strong engineering culture built on motivation, ownership, and technical mastery

Developing a scalable and efficient team structure that supports collaboration across disciplines and geographies

Standardizing processes and tools to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency

Establishing clear KPIs and performance metrics to track progress and accountability

Driving disciplined project execution and risk management across all development phases

Supporting design for service and sustainability in all new product developments

Enhancing cross-functional collaboration with procurement, production, logistics, and service to ensure seamless product lifecycle integration

Investing in talent development through mentoring, training, and succession planning to build future-ready engineering capabilities

Contributing to Project Purple by aligning engineering strategies with long-term footprint and technology roadmaps

Ensuring compliance with quality, safety, and regulatory standards in all engineering activities

Continuously advancing our expertise in vacuum technology, ensuring our products remain differentiated, reliable, and aligned with evolving customer needs

In return, we offer

Culture of trust and accountability

Lifelong learning and career growth

Innovation powered by people

Comprehensive compensation and benefits

Health and well-being

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