R&D Manager PC Cologne
Your role
As the Engineering Manager at PC Cologne, your mission is to lead the engineering organization in delivering innovative, high-quality, and sustainable product solutions that support the company’s long-term profitable growth and operational excellence. You are responsible for driving energy and speed in development, fostering a culture of agility, and ensuring that engineering capabilities are aligned with business needs and customer expectations.
A key strategic priority is to maintain and strengthen PC Cologne’s leadership position in vacuum technology, ensuring our solutions remain at the forefront of scientific and industrial innovation.
Your leadership will be instrumental in building a motivated, high-performing engineering team, structured for collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. You will champion agile product development methodologies to accelerate time-to-market, enhance cross-functional integration, and increase responsiveness to change.
To succeed, you will need
- Accelerating product development cycles by embedding agile principles, iterative design, and rapid prototyping
- Driving energy and speed in development through clear prioritization, empowered teams, and streamlined decision-making
- Ensuring engineering excellence in design, quality, manufacturability, and serviceability
- Fostering a strong engineering culture built on motivation, ownership, and technical mastery
- Developing a scalable and efficient team structure that supports collaboration across disciplines and geographies
- Standardizing processes and tools to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency
- Establishing clear KPIs and performance metrics to track progress and accountability
- Driving disciplined project execution and risk management across all development phases
- Supporting design for service and sustainability in all new product developments
- Enhancing cross-functional collaboration with procurement, production, logistics, and service to ensure seamless product lifecycle integration
- Investing in talent development through mentoring, training, and succession planning to build future-ready engineering capabilities
- Contributing to Project Purple by aligning engineering strategies with long-term footprint and technology roadmaps
- Ensuring compliance with quality, safety, and regulatory standards in all engineering activities
- Continuously advancing our expertise in vacuum technology, ensuring our products remain differentiated, reliable, and aligned with evolving customer needs
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 Leybold
Leybold employs 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.