Merck KGaA Posted October 21, 2026

Equipment Engineering Manager

Austin, Texas, United States Full time
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About this opportunity

Work Your Magic with us!  Start your next chapter and join EMD Serono.

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

Your Role: 

EMD Electronics is seeking an Equipment Engineering Manager.  This role can be based in Breinigsville, PA,  Chandler, AZ or Austin, TX.  As an Engineering Lead for our semiconductor delivery equipment, you are an integral part of the success of our Delivery Systems and Services business. The business demands that you prioritize safety, quality, reliability, and efficiency. You will drive the execution of new semiconductor equipment offerings that are distributed globally by interacting with quality, operations, engineering, sales, site services, and sourcing teams internally. You will be instrumental in translating customer needs into a valued offering that EMD Electronics can provide. You will create engineering solutions to the problems facing the advancement of the electronics industry.

Responsibilities: 

Leadership & People Development

Lead, coach, and develop members of the equipment engineering team

Establish competency models, technical standards, development plans, succession coverage, and disciplined engineering practices.

Own performance management, hiring, workforce planning, resource allocation, and organizational capability building.

Promote a culture of safety, customer focus, innovation, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

Product Lifecycle Ownership

Drive technology refresh, value engineering, obsolescence management, component standardization, and margin-improvement initiatives.

Govern Engineering Change Requests (ECRs), Management of Change (MOC), configuration control, design reviews, and release documentation.

Balance customer requirements with manufacturability, serviceability, supply continuity, quality, and platform scalability.

New Product Development & Industrialization

Lead development of new equipment platforms, options, derivatives, and customer-specific configurations using disciplined stage-gate governance.

Partner with Operations and Manufacturing Engineering to ensure production readiness, test readiness, documentation completeness, and controlled product release.

Support Sales, Product Management, Applications Engineering, and Site Services with technical proposals, design reviews, and solution positioning.

Lead complex troubleshooting e.g. customer escalation, structured root-cause analysis, CAPA, yield improvement, and recurring-defect elimination.

Partner with Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Service, and Operations to improve equipment quality, delivery, cost, and field performance.

Ensure equipment complies with applicable SEMI, CE, UL, NFPA, IEC, and regional regulatory requirements.

This position will include travel of up to 10%.

Who You Are 

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or other Engineering field

7+ years of experience in an Engineering role

Preferred Qualifications: 

10+ years of experience in an engineering role

5 years of experience with semiconductor aqueous chemical and slurry delivery

Semiconductor/microelectronics or related experience

Proven success in applying problem solving and analytical skills

Ability to understand technical details of products to troubleshoot and drive improvements.

Leadership skills to influence focus on product development

Critical attention to detail and investigation skills

Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines

Familiarity with SolidWorks, ASPEN, HAZOP, FMEA, MOC and Flow Modeling applications

Experience with advanced process control techniques and applications

Experience with Semi standards

Knowledgeable in application of metrology including:  densitometers, chemical concentration monitors, conductivity meters, liquid particle counters, liquid detectors, pressure and flow transmitters, mass/liquid flow control, spectroscopy

Experience collaborating with diverse, global teams to meet business and customer needs

An enthusiastic learner, who wants to solve complex problems in a thriving organization

Demonstrated business acumen with the ability to develop compelling technical readiness and effectively influence stakeholders across organizational levels and diverse cultural environments

Base Pay Range for this position -   $133,000 - $145,500

The offer range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base pay compensation for this position. The actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level of experience, education, skills, and other job-related factors. Position may be eligible for sales or performance-based bonuses. Benefits offered by the Company include health insurance, paid time off (PTO), retirement contributions, and other perquisites. For more information click here .

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!

Job details

Seniority
Manager
Function
Manufacturing & CMC
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Austin, Texas, United States
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Manufacturing & CMC role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 652 comparable Manager Manufacturing & CMC roles across 86 biopharma companies.

652Comparable roles tracked
589Currently active
86Companies hiring similar roles
41Countries represented

Salary context

199 of 652 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject $133,000/yr – $145,500/yr
Lowest disclosed · Warehouse Associate I (M-F 11am-7:30pm) · AbbVie $16/hr – $29/hr (≈ $33,280–$60,320/yr)
Highest disclosed · Regional Manager - Megasys · Merck KGaA $220,000/yr – $250,000/yr
Peer group range $46,800 – $235,000 (median $157,000)

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Ireland22
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Therapeutic area mix

9 of 652 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Vaccines & Infectious Disease5
Rare Disease3
Immunology1

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