Sulzer is a leading engineering company with a proud heritage of innovation. Join our general team to grow your expertise and develop innovative solutions that enable a prosperous and more sustainable society.

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

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📌 Engineering Manager AME (Cuautitlán Izcalli)
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