Your role
- Accelerating product development cycles by embedding agile principles, iterative design approaches, and rapid prototyping
- Driving energy and speed in development through clear prioritization, empowered teams, and streamlined decision-making processes
- Ensuring engineering excellence in design, quality, manufacturability, and serviceability
- Fostering a strong engineering culture built on motivation, ownership, and technical expertise
- Developing a scalable and efficient team structure that supports collaboration across functions and locations
- Standardizing processes and tools to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency
- Establishing clear KPIs and performance metrics to measure progress and accountability
- Ensuring disciplined project execution and effective risk management throughout all development phases
- Incorporating serviceability and sustainability considerations into all new product developments
- Strengthening cross-functional collaboration with procurement, production, logistics, and service teams to ensure seamless product lifecycle integration
- Promoting employee development through mentoring, training, and succession planning to build future-ready engineering capabilities
- Supporting Project Purple by aligning engineering strategies with long-term site and technology roadmaps
- Ensuring compliance with quality, safety, and regulatory requirements across all engineering activities
- Continuously expanding our expertise in vacuum technology to ensure our products remain differentiated, reliable, and aligned with evolving customer needs.
To succeed, you will need
- Completed Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related field
- Several years of relevant professional experience in Research & Development within an industrial environment are required
- Proven experience in leadership positions or strategic/conceptual roles
- Strong entrepreneurial mindset and business acumen
- Extensive experience in leading, developing, and coaching employees, as well as managing cross-functional teams
- Strong results-oriented analytical understanding of cost structures, lead times, inventory management, and investment decisions
- Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills across all levels of the organization
- High level of energy, initiative, and motivation
- Very good English skills and excellent German language skills, both written and spoken, are required.
In return, we offer
- Culture of trust and accountability
- Lifelong learning and career growth
- Innovation powered by people
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits
- Health and well-being
Contact information
Talent Acquisition Team: David Gabriel
About LeyboldLeyboldemploys people on four continents. Many of them have a scientific or technical focus. Their knowledge, creativity and experience are essential for our success.
The demands of the high-tech industry and the cultural diversity in our globally active company also contributes to an attractive and stimulating working environment at Leybold. Technical knowledge is important to us, as are personal soft skills and the willingness to work in international project teams.
Leybold is part of the Vacuum Technique Business area of the Atlas Copco Group. The Group's sustainable approach also determines our visions and values. A wide range of training and further education programs are available, to enhance technical know-how and systematically expand skills. Because only great ideas accelerate innovation.