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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 into future designs, standards, and products.
- Strengthen collaboration between Engineering and Service Operations teams throughout the region.
Technical Excellence & Innovation
- Maintain engineering standards related to mechanical design, structural design, materials of construction, and applicable industry codes.
- Promote engineering automation, digitalization, and productivity improvement initiatives.
- Support implementation of engineering software, design tools, and engineering management systems.
- Drive engineering best practices, standard work, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Establish knowledge-sharing programs across engineering disciplines.
- Build organizational technical capability in design engineering, application engineering, product engineering, and project engineering.
- Promote innovation that enhances customer value and strengthens MTCS competitiveness.
Talent Development
- Establish engineering competency models and career development paths.
- Develop future engineering leaders and technical specialists.
- Promote technical knowledge sharing and cross-training throughout the organization.
- Support succession planning and workforce development initiatives.
- Build organizational capabilities necessary to support future growth and regional expansion.
- Create a high-performance engineering culture focused on accountability, collaboration, customer focus, and innovation.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related discipline.
- Master's Degree preferred.
- Minimum 12 years of engineering experience in industrial manufacturing, refining, petrochemical, chemical, energy, or related industries.
- Minimum 5 years leading multidisciplinary engineering organizations.
- Strong experience in product engineering, design engineering, project engineering, and manufacturing support environments.
- Experience supporting engineered-to-order equipment and industrial manufacturing operations.
- Strong understanding of mechanical design, materials of construction, engineering calculations, fabrication processes, and technical documentation.
- Proven commercial and customer-facing experience.
- Experience working within regional or multinational organizations.
- Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
- English and Spanish proficiency required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with trays, structured packing, random packing, internals, separation equipment, and mass transfer technologies.
- Familiarity with ASME, ASTM, AWS, API, and applicable customer specifications and industry standards.
- Experience leading engineering organizations across multiple countries or locations.
- Experience supporting both Products and Services businesses.
- Experience implementing engineering automation and digital engineering initiatives.
- Familiarity with SAP, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, engineering design software, and engineering management systems.
- Experience supporting refining, petrochemical, chemical, LNG, CCUS, hydrogen, sustainable fuels, or energy industries.
What we offer you
Salary according to experience
Life insurance
Savings fund
Major medical expenses insurance
Interaction with international team
Career growth opportunities
Sulzer is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in the strength of a diverse workforce and are committed to offering an inclusive work environment.
We are proud to be recognized as a Top Employer 2026 in Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Switzerland, South Africa, the UK and the USA.
