Engineering Manager AME

sulzer; Cuautitlán Izcalli; Presencial; MXN 1.500.000 - 1.900.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Sulzer is seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to lead experienced professionals across multiple engineering domains in the Americas.

The role focuses on implementing short-term strategies, governing technical leadership, and driving innovation to support MTCS products and services. The role emphasizes recruiting and developing engineering talent, establishing KPIs, and promoting standardization and best practices across locations.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the Americas Engineering organization under a One Americas operating model.
• Develop and execute the regional engineering strategy aligned with business objectives and growth plans.
• Establish engineering standards, design practices, governance, and procedures across the region.
• Drive resource sharing, collaboration, and workload balancing across engineering teams.
• Establish KPIs, performance management, and organizational development plans.
• Recruit, develop, coach, and retain engineering talent.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Promote standardization and best practices across disciplines and locations.
• Lead engineering support for MTCS products, including trays, structured packing, and related technologies.
• Oversee design, validation, calculations, and documentation activities; ensure deliverables meet requirements.
• Establish design review and engineering approval processes; drive modularization and optimization initiatives.
• Support manufacturability improvements, quality, cost reduction, and material optimization.
• Ensure compliance with customer specs, codes, and internal requirements.
• Support development of new products and engineering innovation initiatives.
• Partner with Sales, BD, Product Management, and APT to support opportunities and customer pursuits.
• Provide technical leadership during proposals, customer meetings, and technical clarifications.
• Participate in project kick-offs and customer technical reviews.
• Align technical solutions with MTCS capabilities; improve proposal quality and responsiveness.
• Support strategic opportunities in refining, petrochemical, LNG, CCUS, hydrogen, and energy transition markets.
• Serve as senior engineering escalation point for complex issues and customer challenges.
• Collaborate with Head of Project Management Americas to ensure successful project execution.
• Ensure schedules align with commitments; review resource requirements and project priorities.
• Drive risk assessments and mitigation planning; ensure timely deliverables.
• Drive change management and issue resolution; establish consistent methodologies across MTCS Americas.
• Support field operations and service engineering with technical expertise.

Descripción del empleo

Sulzer is a leading engineering company with a proud heritage of innovation. Join our global team to grow your expertise and develop innovative solutions that enable a prosperous and more sustainable society.

About the role

Job Summary

The Sr. Engineering Manager is responsible for managing experienced professionals across multiple engineering domains. This role ensures the implementation of short-term strategies and policies, and influences broader organizational practices through technical leadership and innovation.

This job profile is intended for People Managers of 4+ experienced to senior expert-level employees.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership

• Lead the Americas Engineering organization under a One Americas operating model.
• Develop and execute the regional engineering strategy aligned with business objectives and growth plans.
• Establish engineering standards, design practices, technical governance processes, and engineering procedures across the region.
• Drive resource sharing, collaboration, and workload balancing across engineering teams.
• Establish engineering KPIs, performance management systems, and organizational development plans.
• Recruit, develop, coach, and retain engineering talent.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Promote standardization and engineering best practices across all engineering disciplines and locations.

Design & Product Engineering

• Lead engineering support for MTCS products, including trays, structured packing, random packing, internals, separation equipment, and associated mass transfer technologies.
• Oversee product design, customization, validation, engineering calculations, and technical documentation activities.
• Ensure engineering deliverables, including approval drawings, fabrication drawings, bills of material, and design calculations, meet customer and Sulzer requirements.
• Establish design review and engineering approval processes across the region.
• Drive standardization, modularization, and design optimization initiatives.
• Support manufacturability improvements, quality enhancement, material optimization, and cost reduction efforts.
• Ensure compliance with customer specifications, engineering standards, applicable codes, and internal requirements.
• Support development of new products, product improvements, and engineering innovation initiatives.

Application Engineering & Commercial Support

• Partner with Sales, Business Development, Product Management, and APT teams to support strategic opportunities and key customer pursuits.
• Provide technical leadership during proposal development, customer presentations, and technical clarification meetings.
• Participate in project kick-off meetings and customer technical reviews.
• Ensure technical solutions align with customer requirements and MTCS capabilities.
• Improve proposal quality, consistency, responsiveness, and technical competitiveness.
• Support strategic opportunities in refining, petrochemical, chemical, LNG, CCUS, hydrogen, sustainable fuels, and energy transition markets.
• Serve as the senior engineering escalation point for complex technical issues and customer challenges.

Project Engineering

• Partner with the Head of Project Management Americas to ensure successful execution of customer projects.
• Support project kick-off meetings, engineering planning activities, and technical reviews.
• Ensure engineering schedules align with customer commitments and project execution plans.
• Review engineering resource requirements and project priorities.
• Support technical risk assessments and mitigation planning.
• Ensure engineering deliverables are completed accurately, efficiently, and on schedule.
• Drive engineering change management and technical issue resolution processes.
• Establish consistent project engineering methodologies across MTCS Americas.

Manufacturing & Operational Support

• Support Manufacturing and Product Operations teams with technical expertise during fabrication, assembly, inspection, and testing activities.
• Resolve engineering-related manufacturing issues, non-conformances, and technical deviations.
• Drive design improvements that enhance productivity, quality, manufacturability, safety, and profitability.
• Support root cause investigations and implementation of corrective actions.
• Ensure lessons learned from manufacturing operations are incorporated into future designs and standards.
• Collaborate with Product Operations leaders to improve operational performance, throughput, and resource utilization.

Service Engineering Support

• Provide engineering expertise supporting Service Operations activities.
• Support revamps, retrofits, troubleshooting, reliability improvements, inspections, and turnaround execution.
• Assist with customer escalations requiring engineering support and technical evaluation.
• Support field issue investigations and technical problem resolution.
• Ensure lessons learned from field execution activities are incorporated