Job Summary
- Lead global engineering across all OSM sites, driving accelerated innovation to meet market demands, particularly in semiconductor and optical domains.
- Oversee R&D across Optical, Sensors & Acoustic, and AI/ML, ensuring rapid, high-quality product development and delivery.
- Align engineering strategy with business priorities, applying strong business acumen to balance speed, cost, and impact.
- Define long term technical, customer and industrial trends, and align engineering efforts accordingly.
- Build, mentor, and retain top engineering talent through structured development, training, and career progression.
- Promote a high-performance culture that is innovative, accountable, and collaborative.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Accelerate Innovation & Execution
- Drive faster development cycles from concept to launch, ensuring on-time, on-budget, and on-spec delivery.
- Align roadmaps with market trends and customer needs, enabling rapid response to industry changes.
- Engineering Leadership & Execution
- Manage a large, global engineering organization through managers and supervisors, ensuring strong alignment, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Oversee complex, multi-disciplinary development programs, ensuring delivery on schedule, within budget, and to performance targets.
- Technical Strategy & Roadmaps
- Develop and execute integrated technology roadmaps across semiconductor, optical, and acoustic sensing domains aligned with market trends and customer requirements.
- Ensure alignment between R&D investments and business priorities, driving ROI-focused innovation.
- Domain Expertise (Acoustic & Optical)
- Leverage deep experience in acoustic and optical systems to guide architecture decisions, technology selection, and product differentiation.
- Ensure engineering solutions meet the precision, reliability, and scalability demands of advanced inspection and test applications.
- Talent Development
- Build and develop high-performing teams through coaching, training, and career progression.
- Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Process Excellence
- Establish and continuously improve engineering processes from concept through commercial launch, aligned with the NBS Next Product Innovation Playbook.
- Implement best-in-class tools, methodologies, and governance to improve development efficiency, quality, and scalability.
Education and Experience Requirements
- Extensive experience leading large, multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Advanced degree (MS/PhD preferred) in physics, engineering, or a related field with minimum 8 years of experience managing engineering teams
- Proven track record delivering complex system development programs at scale
- Strong understanding of business and management principles, including strategic planning, resource allocation, organizational design, leadership, and operational execution
- Industry experience in electronics manufacturing equipment
- Experience with optics or acoustic imaging systems
- Familiarity with phase-gate engineering project management methodologies
Preferred Skills and Abilities
- Strong strategic leadership with the ability to think creatively, solve complex problems, and align engineering execution with business goals
Working Conditions and Physical Demands
- Office environment
Travel Required
None
Compensation
Base Salary Range for this position is: $187,000 to $265,000 annually, and bonus target is 20%. Benefits include Medical, Rx, Vision, Dental, and Health Savings Account (HSA), Retirement and Security benefits including 401k and Life Insurance. In addition to Paid Time Off and paid Holidays, each employee receives 16 hours paid time each calendar year to perform volunteer services for Nordson-sponsored events. Ample opportunities for giving exist at Nordson including our Matching Gifts Program.
The base pay range for this job level is a general guideline and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity, business considerations, and local market conditions, as well as candidate qualifications, such as education, experience, and skills.
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Skills Required
- Advanced degree in physics, engineering, or a related field
- Minimum 8 years of experience managing engineering teams
- Experience delivering complex system development programs at scale
- Understanding of business and management principles
- Industry experience in electronics manufacturing equipment
- Experience with optics or acoustic imaging systems
- Familiarity with phase-gate engineering project management methodologies
Nordson Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nordson Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Nordson Corporation.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) features automatic enrollment at 6%, a 50% match on up to 6% of pay, and an additional 3% company contribution for eligible U.S. employees even without employee contributions. Feedback suggests this retirement structure is above what many mid-size manufacturers offer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays and a typical year-end shutdown between Christmas and New Year’s at many U.S. locations expand time off beyond standard PTO. Feedback suggests this shutdown is a distinctive work-life perk, though availability can vary by site or business unit.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Volunteer release time and a 3:1 charitable gift-matching program are offered alongside recognition programs, tuition assistance, and community initiatives. Feedback suggests these elements add value beyond core insurance and PTO.
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What We Do
Nordson is a team of 7,300 global employees thriving in an environment where they are supported and encouraged to be their best. Working side by side, we build meaningful connections with each other and our customers. Together, we deliver products that are solutions, and they’re likely touching your life every day. Have you ever changed a diaper? Opened a box of cereal? Used a smart phone or driven a car? Then we’ve already met. At Nordson, we take pride in being an outstanding corporate citizen and strongly believe in sharing our success with the communities where our employees live and work. Whether you’re working in one of our labs, offices or manufacturing facilities, your efforts will enable our customers to succeed and our company to continuously improve and grow. We engineer, manufacture and market differentiated products and systems used for precision dispensing and processing in a variety of end markets, from packaging to transportation and medical to electronics. Founded in 1954, we operate under the values of integrity, respect for people, customer passion, energy and excellence. Nordson is headquartered in the United States in Westlake, Ohio, and has direct operations in more than 30 countries to support our products and systems with application expertise and a direct global sales and service organization
