Global Electrical Engineering Manager

The Global Electrical Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the design, development, and delivery of ORTEC brand nuclear instrumentation and measurement systems used for radiation detection and radioisotope identification. This role combines technical leadership with organizational management, overseeing a team of electrical engineers engaged in board-level mixed-signal design, including low-noise analog front ends, ADC systems, digital processing, and power electronics.

The Global Electrical Engineering Manager drives execution across the full product lifecycle while ensuring alignment with business objectives, product requirements, and regulatory compliance. This position requires deep technical expertise in precision instrumentation along with demonstrated experience leading engineering teams, managing projects, and developing talent.

Technical Leadership

• Provide architectural direction and technical oversight for mixed-signal systems including low-noise amplifiers, ADC systems, DSP architectures, and power supply design.
• Guide system-level design and integration of detectors, displays, batteries, and embedded processors.
• Ensure robust design practices for high-accuracy, low-noise measurement systems.
• Oversee prototyping, PCB bring-up, debugging, validation, and performance characterization.

Team & Organizational Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of electrical engineers.

• Assign and prioritize engineering resources across projects.

• Conduct performance reviews and support career development.

• Drive engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Program & Product Execution

• Own execution of electrical engineering deliverables across the product lifecycle.

• Coordinate cross-functionally with systems, software, manufacturing, quality, and product teams.

• Ensure projects meet schedule, cost, and performance targets.

Compliance & Quality

• Ensure designs meet regulatory standards such as IEC/UL 61010-1.
• Oversee compliance testing, documentation, and certification.
• Drive DFM and DFT practices.

Customer & Business Alignment

• Support customer engagements and technical reviews.
• Partner with Marketing to align specifications with market needs.
• Identify and implement new technologies for growth.

Education / Experience

• BS in Electrical Engineering required; MS preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant electronics design experience.
• 3+ years of leadership or management experience preferred

Technical and Managerial Expertise

• Demonstrated leadership experience: coaching, mentoring, and performance management; ability to build and sustain a high-performing engineering team.
• Ability to manage and direct a multi-site team with team members at other Ametek office locations
• Proven experience leading technical electronics team delivering complex hardware and/or instrumentation products
• Hardware design and architecture ownership with experience with FPGA, DSP, and embedded systems
• Strong background in high accuracy and low noise analog, digital, and mixed-signal design
• Expertise in system architecture design and hardware/software integration ranging from laboratory instrumentation to portable measurement systems
• Project execution and cross-functional team coordination (schedule, cost, performance) across the product lifecycle.

ABOUT THE BUSINESS

Advanced Measurement Technology (AMT) is a group of high performance scientific instrumentation businesses within the Materials Analysis Division of AMETEK, Inc. AMT designs and manufactures advanced laboratory and analytical instruments used by academia, government, and industry worldwide for elemental analysis, materials research, and quality assurance.

AMT’s portfolio includes globally recognized brands such as ORTEC, Amptek, Sunpower, innoRIID, Princeton Applied Research, and Solartron Analytical, delivering solutions across nuclear spectroscopy, X ray and gamma ray detection, cryogenic cooling, electrochemical analysis, and electronic signal recovery. These technologies support critical applications including nuclear safeguards and homeland security, energy storage research, materials science, and advanced manufacturing. Headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, AMT combines decades of technical expertise with internally developed technologies and close collaboration with U.S. government laboratories and research institutions. As part of AMETEK, AMT is committed to operational excellence, disciplined growth, and continuous innovation—helping customers achieve accuracy, reliability, and performance in the world’s most demanding measurement environments.

ORTEC is a global leader in the design and manufacture of precision radiation detectors, nuclear instrumentation, analysis software, and integrated measurement systems. Founded in 1960 by scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORTEC has built a long-standing reputation for technical excellence, reliability, and innovation in nuclear measurement solutions.

ORTEC’s product portfolio includes high purity germanium (HPGe) radiation detectors, scintillation detectors, digital spectrometers, analysis software, and turnkey spectroscopy systems used across homeland security, nuclear safeguards, health physics, waste assay, radiopharmaceuticals, and scientific research applications. ORTEC solutions are trusted by government agencies, nuclear facilities, research laboratories, universities, and industrial customers worldwide. Headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, ORTEC is part of Advanced Measurement Technology (AMT) within the Materials Analysis Division of AMETEK, Inc. Through continuous innovation and deep application expertise, ORTEC enables accurate, reliable nuclear measurements in some of the world’s most demanding environments. Website: www.ortec-online.com [ortec-online.com], [linkedin.com]