Senior Principal Mechanical Project Engineering Manager

Molex; Genova; On-site; EUR 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Molex, a Koch company and global electronics leader, seeks a senior Mechanical Engineering Leader in Genova to guide the Automation Centre of Excellence. You will mentor three design engineers and define best practices for high-precision machines, ensuring robust, manufacturable designs and rigorous verification and documentation.

Starting from a 60,000 EUR gross annual salary, you will own technical direction, interface with external builders and suppliers, and travel across EMEA as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 15+ years of experience in mechanical design and project engineering for automated equipment and tooling.
• Senior technical role such as Principal Engineer, Lead Mechanical Engineer or Mechanical Engineering Manager of small teams.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical design fundamentals, structured design methods, verification and release processes.
• Availability to travel across EMEA and globally.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and methodological leadership to the Mechanical Engineering team, coaching engineers while preserving ownership and accountability.
• Define, implement and improve mechanical engineering standards, methods and best practices across projects.
• Contribute to design of complex high precision machines and mechanical groups.
• Lead design reviews, challenge assumptions and address risks, interfaces and critical decisions.
• Ensure designs meet requirements for functionality, manufacturability, reliability, maintainability, tolerancing and assembly.
• Define and oversee design verification and validation before design release.
• Act as senior escalation point for complex technical decisions and root-cause analysis.
• Ensure project documentation maturity for outsourcing, including specs, drawings, 3D models, interfaces and acceptance criteria.
• Provide senior technical interface to machine builders, engineering partners and suppliers.
• Coordinate priorities across Mechanical, Automation, Electrical, Controls, Manufacturing, Process, Quality and Project Management.
• Drive standardisation, modularity, reuse and continuous improvement using lessons from design and field experience.

Skills

Leadership

Mechanical design

Project leadership

Technical mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Your Job

Provide senior technical and methodological leadership for mechanical engineering projects, ensuring that custom machines, automated equipment and mechanical assemblies are robust, manufacturable, validated and documented for successful internal build or external outsourcing.

Our Team

The Automation Centre of Excellence brings together mechanical, automation, electrical, controls, manufacturing, process, quality and project-management expertise. You will lead three Mechanical Design Engineers from a technical and project-execution perspective, leveraging their complementary strengths while building consistent engineering practices.

What You Will Do

• Provide technical and methodological leadership to the Mechanical Engineering team, coaching engineers while preserving clear ownership and accountability.
• Define, implement and continuously improve mechanical engineering standards, methods and best practices across projects.
• Contribute to design of complex high precision machines and mechanical groups.
• Lead structured design reviews, challenging assumptions and ensuring that risks, interfaces and critical design decisions are addressed.
• Ensure mechanical designs meet requirements for functionality, manufacturability, reliability, maintainability, tolerancing and assembly.
• Define and oversee design verification and validation so critical requirements are demonstrated before design release.
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex technical decisions, structured problem-solving and root-cause analysis.
• Ensure projects reach the documentation maturity required for outsourcing, including specifications, drawings, 3D models, interfaces and acceptance criteria.
• Provide the senior technical interface to machine builders, engineering partners and suppliers, reviewing their designs against project requirements.
• Coordinate priorities and technical deliverables across Mechanical, Automation, Electrical, Controls, Manufacturing, Process, Quality and Project Management.
• Drive standardisation, modularity, reuse and continuous improvement using lessons from design, manufacturing, validation, commissioning and field experience.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 15+ years of experience in mechanical design and project engineering for automated equipment, special-purpose machinery, tooling and/or electronic products.
• Proven experience in a senior technical role such as Principal Engineer, Lead Mechanical Engineer or Mechanical Engineering Manager of small teams.
• Strong knowledge of mechanical design fundamentals, structured design methods, verification, validation and release processes.
• Availability to travel across EMEA and globally.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Ability to lead effective design reviews and assess complex mechanical solutions, technical risks and design assumptions.
• Strong capability in tolerancing, materials, manufacturing processes, assembly, maintainability, reliability and DFMA.
• Experience working with external machine builders, engineering companies and manufacturing suppliers.
• Proven ability to create complete, unambiguous technical specifications and documentation for outsourced engineering and manufacturing.
• Excellent technical communication, mentoring, cross-functional collaboration and decision-making, balancing robustness, cost, timing and complexity.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.

Salary

Starting from 60.000 annual gross salary (Euro)

Who We Are

Molex

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.