Engineering Manager, HyService

Voith Hydro; East York (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexibility with Work/Life Balance

Competitive Compensation and Benefits

401K with generous company match

Climate-Neutral Footprint Worldwide

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Voith Hydro in the United States seeks an Engineering Manager for HyService to lead regional engineering and deliver competitive, customer-focused service solutions.

You will drive engineering excellence from opportunity development through execution, ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, and alignment with business goals; collaborate with Field Services, Project Management, Sales, and Sourcing, while guiding multi-disciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering (or comparable); hydropower service/modernization exposure is a strong asset.
• 8-12 years of relevant experience in application/service engineering within an OEM or project-driven environment, including several years in a leadership role.
• Strong people leadership: build, coach, and steer multidisciplinary teams with clear accountability and performance culture.
• Proven ability to translate customer needs into technically sound, competitive solutions across service offerings, supporting both OTO and OTC with accurate scope, effort, and risk assessment.
• Solid engineering governance: compliance with safety/regulatory requirements and contractual obligations, high-quality technical documentation, and NCR feedback loops.
• Excellent crossfunctional and customer-facing communication (Tendering, PM, Field Services, Sales), including prioritization and resource planning; business-fluent English, CAD/engineering tools; SAP exposure are a plus; travel as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the HyService Engineering organization.
• Provide functional leadership to engineers within the team.
• Build a high-performing, collaborative engineering organization aligned with regional and global standards.
• Define technical scopes, objectives, and deliverables aligned with customer requirements and business goals.
• Ensure engineering solutions meet safety standards, regulatory requirements, and contractual obligations.
• Support Service Managers and Tendering teams with technically sound and competitive proposals.
• Drive improvements in engineering processes, tools, and methodologies.
• Promote best practices and lessons learned, including feedback from NCRs.
• Ensure high-quality, complete, and standard-compliant technical documentation.
• Coordinate closely with Field Services, Project Management, Sales, Sourcing, and Service teams to ensure seamless execution.
• Build and maintain a strong internal network within the region.
• Support alignment with corporate engineering standards and regional service strategies.
• Regional HyService Engineering teams (multi-disciplinary - Turbine, Generator, Automation, BOP).

Skills

People leadership

Cross-functional communication

Resource planning

Tendering collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering (or comparable)

Tools

CAD tools

SAP

MS Office

Job description

The Voith Group is a global technology company. With its broad portfolio of systems, products, services and digital applications, Voith sets standards in the markets of energy, paper, raw materials and transport & automotive. Founded in 1867, the company today has around 20,700 employees, sales of 4,8 billion and locations in over 60 countries worldwide and is thus one of the larger family-owned companies in Europe.

Voith Hydro is hiring for:

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Reasons you'll love working here:

• Flexibility with Work/Life Balance
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits Package
• 401K with generous company match
• Climate-Neutral Footprint Worldwide
• Tuition reimbursement

Summary -

The Engineering Manager, HyService is responsible for leading the regional engineering organization and ensuring the delivery of technically sound, competitive, and customer-focused solutions across all service offerings. The role drives engineering excellence from opportunity development through execution support, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities -

Engineering Leadership & Organization

• Lead and develop the HyService Engineering organization
• Provide functional leadership to engineers within the team
• Build a high-performing, collaborative engineering organization aligned with regional and global standards

Technical Scope & Solution Development

• Define technical scopes, objectives, and deliverables aligned with customer requirements and business goals.
• Ensure engineering solutions meet safety standards, regulatory requirements, and contractual obligations.
• Support development of customer-focused and technically optimized service solutions.

Project & Offer Support (OTO / OTC)

• Estimate, plan, and execute engineering scopes for both Offer-to-Order (OTO) and Order-to-Cash (OTC) phases.
• Ensure efficient and standardized engineering processes during the offering phase.
• Support Service Managers and Tendering teams with technically sound and competitive proposals.

Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Drive improvements in engineering processes, tools, and methodologies.
• Promote best practices and lessons learned, including feedback from NCRs (Non-Conformance Reports).
• Ensure high-quality, complete, and standard-compliant technical documentation.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Coordinate closely with Field Services, Project Management, Sales, Sourcing, and Service teams to ensure seamless execution.
• Build and maintain a strong internal network within the region.
• Support alignment with corporate engineering standards and regional service strategies.

Leadership Scope

• Regional HyService Engineering teams (multi-disciplinary - Turbine, Generator, Automation, BOP)
• Functional leadership across engineering interfaces

Candidate Requirements -

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering (or comparable); hydropower service/modernization exposure is a strong asset.
• 8-12 years of relevant experience in application/service engineering within an OEM or projectdriven environment, including several years in a leadership role.
• Strong people leadership: build, coach, and steer multidisciplinary teams (incl. functional leadership across engineering interfaces) with clear accountability and performance culture.
• Proven ability to translate customer needs into technically sound, competitive solutions across service offerings, supporting both OTO and OTC with accurate scope, effort, and risk assessment.
• Solid engineering governance skills: compliance with safety/regulatory requirements and contractual obligations, high-quality technical documentation, and structured lessons learned/NCR feedback loops.
• Excellent crossfunctional and customer-facing communication (Tendering, PM, Field Services, Sales), including prioritization and resource planning; businessfluent English, strong MS Office; CAD/engineering tools and SAP exposure are a plus; travel as required.

Voith US Inc. is an EEO/AA/VEVRAA compliant Federal Contractor and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. We welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry including people of color, LGBTQI+ community, women, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), Veterans, people of any age or family status. We embrace the competitive advantage that diversity brings and we strive to create a working environment that is inclusive of thought and talent.