🔬 We're Hiring: Metrology Manager
Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior
Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
About Us
We are a globally focused organization committed to maintaining world-class measurement capability, dimensional accuracy, measurement traceability, and metrology excellence across engineering, manufacturing, quality, laboratory, and operational environments.
Our distributed teams collaborate across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Calibration, Production, Maintenance, Research & Development, Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, and external laboratories to ensure measurement systems are accurate, capable, traceable, reliable, and fit for purpose.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Metrology Manager to lead metrology strategy, measurement science, dimensional metrology, calibration governance, measurement-system capability, uncertainty management, traceability, laboratory operations, inspection technology, and continuous improvement.
The successful candidate will establish a robust metrology function capable of supporting product development, manufacturing, inspection, testing, quality assurance, engineering validation, process control, and regulatory requirements.
Key ResponsibilitiesMetrology Strategy
- Develop and implement a comprehensive metrology strategy aligned with business, engineering, manufacturing, quality, and technology objectives.
- Establish metrology policies, standards, procedures, governance, and technical requirements.
- Develop short-, medium-, and long-term metrology capability roadmaps.
- Identify measurement risks and prioritize investments based on business and technical requirements.
Measurement Science
- Establish sound measurement-science principles across the organization.
- Ensure measurement methods are accurate, repeatable, reproducible, traceable, and suitable for intended applications.
- Evaluate measurement capability against product and process requirements.
Metrology Governance
- Establish governance for:
- Measurement Standards
- Reference Standards
- Measurement Methods
- Calibration
- Inspection Systems
- Measurement Uncertainty
- Traceability
- Equipment Qualification
- Measurement-System Analysis
Key Performance Indicators
Performance may be measured through:
- Measurement-system capability
- Measurement uncertainty
- Gauge R&R performance
- Measurement repeatability
- Measurement reproducibility
- Measurement bias
- Measurement stability
- Calibration compliance
- Calibration on-time rate
- Out-of-tolerance rate
- Measurement equipment availability
- Metrology equipment utilization
- Measurement turnaround time
- Inspection throughput
- CMM utilization
- CMM program accuracy
- Measurement correlation performance
- Inter-laboratory comparison performance
- Proficiency-testing performance
- Reference-standard compliance
- Traceability compliance
- Metrology data accuracy
- Measurement-record completeness
- Measurement-system failure rate
- Measurement-related nonconformities
- Measurement-related customer complaints
- Measurement dispute resolution time
- Corrective-action closure rate
- Corrective-action effectiveness
- Metrology laboratory performance
- External laboratory performance
- Metrology cost per measurement
- Metrology cost per asset
- Equipment lifecycle cost
- Equipment obsolescence reduction
- Automated inspection adoption
- Digital metrology adoption
- In-process measurement coverage
- Closed-loop measurement adoption
- Measurement-data analytics utilization
- Measurement technology modernization
- Metrology training completion
- Personnel competency
- Audit findings
- Audit corrective-action closure
- Measurement-risk reduction
- Metrology productivity
- Measurement lead-time reduction
- Cost savings
- Continuous-improvement benefits
Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate should have experience in Metrology, Measurement Science, Dimensional Metrology, Calibration, Quality Engineering, Inspection Engineering, Laboratory Management, or related fields.
The candidate should demonstrate:
- Proven experience leading metrology or measurement functions in manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, engineering, electronics, precision machining, laboratory, pharmaceutical, energy, or other measurement-intensive environments.
- Strong understanding of measurement science, metrology principles, measurement traceability, measurement uncertainty, calibration, and measurement-system capability.
- Extensive experience with dimensional metrology, CMM, optical measurement, 3D scanning, surface measurement, form measurement, and precision inspection technologies.
- Strong knowledge of GD&T, engineering drawings, dimensional tolerancing, datum structures, and inspection methodology.
- Extensive experience with Measurement System Analysis, Gauge R&R, repeatability, reproducibility, bias, linearity, and stability.
- Strong understanding of uncertainty budgets, decision rules, measurement risk, and conformity assessment.
- Experience managing internal metrology or calibration laboratories and external accredited laboratories.
- Strong knowledge of ISO/IEC 17025, ISO 10012, ISO 9001, and applicable industry-specific measurement requirements.
- Experience with CMM programming, measurement software, automated inspection, optical metrology, laser scanning, or related technologies.
- Experience developing and validating measurement methods for new products, processes, and manufacturing technologies.
- Strong experience investigating measurement discrepancies, out-of-tolerance conditions, measurement failures, and product-impact issues.
- Experience managing metrology equipment procurement, qualification, verification, calibration, maintenance, lifecycle management, and obsolescence.
- Strong analytical capabilities with experience interpreting measurement data and identifying measurement-system variation and trends.
- Experience with digital metrology, automated data capture, Industrial IoT, AI-based inspection, predictive analytics, or connected measurement systems is advantageous.
- Strong understanding of measurement-data integrity, technical documentation, configuration control, and audit requirements.
- Experience managing metrologists, measurement engineers, calibration specialists, inspection technicians, and technical teams.
- Strong supplier and laboratory-management experience.
- Strong project-management, analytical, technical, organizational, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Knowledge of UAE and GCC manufacturing, engineering, quality, laboratory, and regulatory environments is advantageous.
- Relevant degree in Metrology, Measurement Science, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Precision Engineering, Quality Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Professional certifications in metrology, calibration, quality, GD&T, Lean Six Sigma, laboratory management, or related disciplines are advantageous.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills; additional languages are advantageous.
- Excellent technical leadership, stakeholder-management, planning, analytical, and communication skills.
- Ability to translate engineering and product requirements into technically sound measurement solutions.
- Ability to balance measurement accuracy, uncertainty, throughput, traceability, cost, equipment availability, and operational requirements.
- Ability to manage complex metrology programs, laboratories, technical investigations, suppliers, budgets, and competing priorities.
- Ability to work independently in a fully remote and internationally distributed environment.
- Strong metrology-focused, measurement-science-driven, precision-oriented, technically rigorous, traceability-conscious, analytical, quality-focused, data-driven, innovation-minded, risk-aware, collaborative, and results-driven mindset.