Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing. Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta. As Director, Engineering, you'll lead a large engineering team or multiple disciplines. You'll lead product compliance, validation, shared engineering services, and R&D projects. Responsibilities Lead the strategic direction, planning, and performance of the team, ensuring successful outcomes. Contribute to the strategic planning process, setting objectives, making critical decisions, and fostering success. Leading, engaging, and developing your team in the design and execution of complex engineering projects. Align engineering processes and deliverables with overall organizational goals, demonstrating significant influence and broad impact. Implement engineering best practices, optimizing efficiency, and driving continuous improvements in product innovation and quality. Deliver engineering team results, while anticipating and resolving complex problems, and building relationships with stakeholders. Develop and manage project plans, timelines, and budgets, project controls Foster team engagement and retention Deliver quality and efficiency improvement targets Requirements Education - Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical field. Experience - Proven experience in managing large technical teams, multiple technical disciplines, with global functions. Possess excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. Ability to influence peers and collaborate effectively with executive leaders. Demonstrate high business acumen with ability to analyze complex problems and data, and make high-quality, data-driven decisions. Synthesizes data into crisp and sound strategic insights and conclusions. Takes a global and long-term perspective when making business decisions. Ability to navigate ambiguity and complexity in order to adapt quickly. Intellectual Possesses a desire to learn new things and seeks out knowledge. Evidence of building organizational capability by investing in the development of people. Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy. Please call +1 781-266-5700 if you need a disability accommodation for any part of the employment process.