Senior Project Engineer: Contract Manufacturing Lead

Veeco; Horsham (PA); On-site; USD 107,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision

401(k) with Company Match

Holiday, Vacation, and Sick Time

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Commuter Benefits

Life and Disability Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Identity Theft Remediation

Emergency Travel Assistance

Job summary

Veeco is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to own end-to-end delivery of configured capital equipment across contract manufacturers, from order through customer acceptance and shipment. You will establish scalable manufacturing capabilities, drive line expansion, and manage risk, quality, and delivery commitments with internal teams and external partners.

You will lead product-transfer initiatives, develop executable readiness plans, and communicate status with executives and customers, ensuring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field with at least 8 years of related industry experience; a master’s degree with at least 6 years; a doctoral degree with at least 3 years
• Demonstrated ownership of at least one contract‑manufacturing launch, product transfer, capacity expansion, or production‑line buildout from planning through qualification and production ramp
• Experience delivering complex capital equipment, industrial equipment, or similarly configured hardware across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, and customer requirements
• Experience managing integrated schedules, dependencies, contractual deliverables, risks, and acceptance criteria from order or project authorization through delivery
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Lead contract-manufacturing projects from approved business case through production launch, including new partner onboarding, product transfer, line expansion, facility or production‑cell buildout, tooling, test infrastructure, qualification, and ramp to target output
• Own the integrated delivery plan for configured capital equipment, connecting customer commitments to engineering release, bill‑of‑material readiness, supplier capacity, material availability, assembly, test, inspection, and shipment milestones
• Establish executable build readiness with each contract manufacturer by defining scope boundaries, deliverables, floor‑space and utility needs, staffing and training plans, production documentation, quality controls, test methods, acceptance criteria, and contingency plans
• Govern contract‑manufacturer performance through measurable schedule, quality, cost, capacity, and recovery commitments; lead operating reviews and elevate decisions before issues affect customer delivery
• Drive product‑transfer and configuration control across Veeco and partner teams, ensuring drawings, bills of material, routings, work instructions, inspection plans, approved changes, and as‑built records remain complete and aligned
• Lead first‑article, factory‑acceptance, customer source‑inspection, and shipment‑readiness reviews; close technical findings, nonconformances, documentation gaps, and compliance actions before release
• Provide concise executive and customer‑facing updates that distinguish status, risk, root cause, recovery action, decision required, owner, and due date

Skills

Contract-manufacturer governance

Production transfers

Cross-functional collaboration

Project scheduling

Travel ability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

SAP

SolidWorks

Microsoft 365

Job description

Veeco is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to own end-to-end delivery of configured capital equipment across contract manufacturers, from order through customer acceptance and shipment. You will establish scalable manufacturing capabilities, drive line expansion, and manage risk, quality, and delivery commitments with internal teams and external partners.

You will lead product-transfer initiatives, develop executable readiness plans, and communicate status with executives and customers, ensuring