Engineering Manager

Build Equipment. Build Systems. Build Engineers.

Schold Manufacturing is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and develop our mechanical engineering team and help build the engineering organization that will support our next stage of growth.

This is not simply a project-management role. We are looking for an experienced mechanical engineer and people leader who has a strong foundation in the design of large industrial machinery and capital equipment, enjoys improving how engineering work gets done, and genuinely wants to mentor talented early-career engineers into exceptional engineers.

Since 1949, Schold has designed and manufactured industrial dispersing, milling, and mixing equipment. Our business is built around custom-engineered equipment for our customers' processes, supported throughout the life of the equipment.

Our Engineering Manager will have the opportunity to shape how Schold engineers, standardizes, documents, and delivers increasingly sophisticated equipment while developing the next generation of Schold engineers.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a talented team of mechanical engineers.
• Spend meaningful one-on-one time teaching sound engineering judgment, machine design fundamentals, problem solving, and project ownership.
• Review designs and challenge engineers to understand why a design works, not simply whether it can be modeled.
• Establish clear expectations, accountability, development plans, and career growth paths.
• Recruit, onboard, and develop future engineering talent.
• Create an environment where engineers ask questions, learn from mistakes, collaborate, and continuously improve.

• Provide technical leadership for engineered-to-order industrial mixing, milling, and dispersing equipment.
• Guide projects from application and concept development through detailed design, manufacturing, assembly, testing, installation, and startup.
• Lead and participate in design reviews covering safety, structural integrity, manufacturability, serviceability, cost, reliability, and customer requirements.
• Provide hands‑on engineering support when difficult design or manufacturing problems arise.
• Work closely with Sales, Manufacturing, Assembly, Quality, Purchasing, and Service to deliver successful equipment to our customers.

We want someone who sees improving the engineering department as part of the job—not something that happens after the work is finished.

• Develop and implement engineering standards, procedures, checklists, and best practices.
• Improve drawing, BOM, design‑review, release, and change‑control processes.
• Identify opportunities to standardize proven designs while maintaining Schold's ability to deliver highly customized equipment.
• Improve engineering quality and reduce errors, rework, and recurring production issues.
• Introduce practical tools, technology, automation, and processes that make engineers more productive.
• Establish meaningful engineering metrics and use them to continuously improve department performance.
• Balance today's customer and production needs with the long‑term development of a scalable engineering organization.

The right candidate will bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Approximately 7+ years of progressively responsible mechanical engineering experience, preferably involving industrial machinery, process equipment, engineered-to-order equipment, or other large capital equipment.
• A strong foundation in practical machine design, including structures, rotating equipment, power transmission, bearings,…