A Day in Your Life at MKS:
As a Project Manager, you will take ownership of capital engineering projects across multiple sites include delivering innovation, safety, and performance improvements across a busy operational function. In this role, you will report to the Senior Manager, Program.
You Will Make an Impact By:
- Supporting the Senior Program Manager for end-to-end project delivery, from concept and design through to commissioning.
- Providing mechanical and electrical engineering expertise to support operational performance and improvements.
- Managing project budgets, timelines and resources, ensuring investments deliver expected outcomes.
- Partnering closely with operational teams to deliver practical, value-driven engineering solutions.
- Deliver projects safely, promoting a zero harm / zero incident culture.
- Provide expert mechanical and electrical engineering support across capital projects.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders, contractors and site teams.
- Apply value engineering and best practice to optimize project outcomes.
- Identify opportunities for cost savings and performance improvements.
- Ensure compliance with all engineering, HSE, and CDM regulations.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across regional operations.
- Interpret and challenge technical designs, drawings and specifications (CAD).
Skills You Bring:
- Strong operational engineering/project experience within an industrial environment or heavy industry, manufacturing, aggregates, asphalt, concrete or similar.
- Qualifications in Mechanical and/or Electrical Engineering (Degree or equivalent experience).
- Minimum 10 years of project management experience including budgeting and delivery.
- Ability to help develop scope, estimate and deliver complex projects.
- Experience working across multi-disciplinary teams in a multi-site environment.
- A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with strong problem-solving ability.
- High levels of resilience, adaptability and self-awareness.
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MKS Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“MKS”) is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer: diverse candidates are encouraged to apply. We win as a team and are committed to recruiting and hiring qualified applicants regardless of race, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), religion, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability or handicap, marital status, membership in the uniformed services, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law. Hiring decisions are based on merit, qualifications and business needs. We conduct background checks and drug screens, in accordance with applicable law and company policies. MKS is generally only hiring candidates who reside in states where we are registered to do business.
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Skills Required
- Operational engineering/project experience in industrial or heavy industry (manufacturing, aggregates, asphalt, concrete or similar)
- Qualification in Mechanical and/or Electrical Engineering (degree or equivalent experience)
- Proven project management experience including budgeting and delivery
- Ability to develop scope, estimate, and deliver complex projects
- Experience working across multi-disciplinary teams in a multi-site environment
- Ability to interpret and challenge technical designs, drawings and specifications (CAD)
- Knowledge of HSE and CDM regulations and ensuring compliance
- Proactive, solutions-focused mindset with strong problem-solving, resilience and adaptability
MKS Instruments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about MKS Instruments and has not been reviewed or approved by MKS Instruments.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits coverage is often characterized as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, and vision along with company-paid life and disability coverage. Wellness support is also present via programs such as diabetes management.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with employer match, a Roth option, and an employee stock purchase plan that supports longer-term saving and ownership. Profit-sharing is also described as available after meeting eligibility/vesting timelines.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Variable pay elements such as bonuses and performance-tied incentives are positioned as a consistent component of total rewards. Total compensation is frequently framed as including base pay plus bonus and, for some roles, equity-related components.
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What We Do
MKS Instruments enables technologies that transform our world. We deliver foundational technology solutions to leading edge semiconductor manufacturing, electronics and packaging, and specialty industrial applications. We apply our broad science and engineering capabilities to create instruments, subsystems, systems, process control solutions and specialty chemicals technology that improve process performance, optimize productivity and enable unique innovations for many of the world’s leading technology and industrial companies. Our solutions are critical to addressing the challenges of miniaturization and complexity in advanced device manufacturing by enabling increased power, speed, feature enhancement, and optimized connectivity. Our solutions are also critical to addressing ever-increasing performance requirements across a wide array of specialty industrial applications. Additional information can be found at www.mks.com








