Mechanical Engineering Director (f/m/d)

Required

• Extensive leadership experience building, structuring, and scaling engineering organizations, teams, and departmental budgets.
• Strong background across the full mechanical engineering lifecycle, spanning initial concept, supplier manufacturing, assembly, testing, and integration handover.
• Proven track record of establishing formal design review cadences, delegated authority models, and engineering release standards.
• Experience managing engineering resource allocation and resolving capacity trade-offs across concurrent, complex technical programs.
• Demonstrated capability in mentoring technical leads and creating distinct career progression pathways for both management and specialist individual contributors.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to communicate project risks, trade-offs, and commitments transparently to executive stakeholders.