Senior Manager Mechanical Engineering

Empower Your Future: At Met Ox International, we're pioneering the next era of energy security and abundance through breakthrough superconducting technology. As Senior Manager Mechanical Engineering, you'll join a dynamic team committed to strengthening the world's energy systems to make them more resilient, efficient, and reliable.

Based at our global headquarters in Houston, TX, the Senior Manager Mechanical Engineering leads teams responsible for the design, development, and deployment of advanced MOCVD tooling. This role drives execution across complex, cross-functional initiatives and ensures delivery of scalable, high-performance equipment that supports Met Ox's next-generation manufacturing platforms. This leader owns functional outcomes, builds team capability, and drives engineering excellence in tool design, integration, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

People Leadership & Development

• Leads, develops, and mentors senior individual contributors.
• Builds leadership capability across the organization and strengthens bench depth.
• Conducts regular talent reviews; identifies capability gaps and builds targeted development or hiring plans.
• Drives organizational alignment and supports structural changes to enable scale.
• Fosters a high-performance culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Operational Execution

• Oversees mechanical engineering teams focused on MOCVD tool design, build, and deployment.
• Owns delivery of complex equipment programs, including timelines, quality, and technical performance.
• Drives efficiency improvements in tool design, build, and integration processes.
• Leads resolution of critical cross-functional technical and operational issues.
• Ensures designs meet requirements for manufacturability, reliability, and scalability.

Technical Leadership (Tool Building & MOCVD)

• Provides strategic oversight for mechanical design of advanced deposition systems (MOCVD platforms).
• Guides architecture decisions for high-temperature, vacuum, and thin-film processing equipment.
• Partners with Process, R&D, and Equipment Engineering teams to translate process requirements into robust tool designs.
• Champions best practices in tool design, including DFx (Design for Manufacturability, Assembly, Reliability).
• Drives innovation in equipment design to reduce technical risk and accelerate deployment.

Collaboration & Communication

• Builds strong cross-functional relationships across Engineering, R&D, Manufacturing, and Operations.
• Navigates and resolves conflict effectively to maintain progress on critical initiatives.
• Communicates program status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior leadership.
• Aligns engineering priorities with broader company objectives.

Strategic & Innovative Thinking

• Shapes tactical execution plans and influences broader engineering and platform strategy.
• Identifies opportunities to improve system performance, reduce cost, and increase throughput.
• Introduces innovative approaches to tool design and development.
• Supports long-term roadmap development for MOCVD platform evolution.

Leadership Presence & Influence

• Establishes credibility as a technical and people leader across the organization.
• Influences peers and senior leaders through sound judgment and expertise.
• Inspires confidence across large, cross-functional groups.
• Serves as a key leader in driving engineering culture and execution discipline.

Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field.

• 10 years of engineering experience, with significant focus on complex equipment or tool development.
• 3 years of experience leading engineering teams.

• An advanced degree may be substituted for required experience on a year-for-year basis, depending on relevance and level.
• Prior experience designing or building MOCVD, PVD, or similar semiconductor/thin-film deposition equipment.
• Demonstrated deep understanding of vacuum systems, thermal systems, and precision mechanical design.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience operating effectively in high-growth or scaling manufacturing environments.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Demonstrates strong leadership and organizational development capability.
• Applies deep technical expertise in mechanical system design for complex equipment.
• Leads through ambiguity and drives execution across multiple teams.
• Communicates and collaborates effectively across functions.
• Connects technical decisions to business outcomes with a strategic mindset.
• Scales teams, processes, and systems effectively.

Physical Demands: This position requires sitting at a desk and viewing a computer screen for extended periods while working or performing other office tasks. Ability to move around the office, including occasional standing, walking, and bending to retrieve documents, attend meetings, or use office equipment. Some light lifting may be required, up to 20 lbs.

Met Ox is proud to offer competitive benefits including:

• Health, dental, and vision available on the first day of…