EBRO ARMATUREN Gebr. Bröer GmbH — ein weltweit tätiger, international anerkannter Hersteller von Absperrarmaturen, Antriebs- und Automatisierungstechnik mit Stammsitz in Hagen, NRW, der mit über 1.000 Mitarbeitenden weltweit als starker und zuverlässiger Partner für innovative Technik und kundenindividuelle Lösungen bekannt ist — sucht im Zuge einer langfristigen Nachfolgeplanung eine Leitung F&E Armaturentechnik (m/w/d) in unbefristeter Festanstellung. Diese Senior F&E Führungsposition trägt die Verantwortung für die Leitung technischer Entwicklungsprojekte für Industriearmaturen, die fachliche und disziplinarische Führung eines interdisziplinären Entwicklerteams, Budgetverantwortung, Normensicherstellung (DIN, EN, ISO, API, ATEX, TA-Luft), Prüfstandverantwortung und die Mitwirkung an der langfristigen Produkt- und Technologie-Roadmap. Bewerbungen per E-Mail an personal@ebro-armaturen.com oder über das Bewerbungsportal.
Was EBRO ARMATUREN bietet — Benefits & Arbeitsumfeld
Anstellung: Sichere Anstellung in einem traditionsreichen und kontinuierlich wachsenden Familienunternehmen — langfristige Beschäftigungssicherheit in einem wirtschaftlich stabilen, inhabergeführten Unternehmen
Urlaub: 30 Tage Urlaub — überdurchschnittliches Jahresurlaubsangebot
Altersvorsorge: Zuzahlung zu vermögenswirksamen Leistungen und betrieblicher Altersvorsorge — Arbeitgeber-kofinanzierte Zukunftssicherung
Entwicklung: Weiterbildungs- und Qualifizierungsmöglichkeiten · Individuelle Einarbeitung — gezieltes Investment in fachliche und führungsbezogene Weiterentwicklung
Mobilität: Gute Verkehrsanbindung · Kostenlose Parkplätze · Bike-Leasing mit JobRad — umfassende Mobilitätsunterstützung
Fitness & Familie: Firmenfitness mit Wellpass · Familienservice von voiio — Wellbeing und Work-Life-Balance aktiv gefördert
Perspektive: Wachstum und Teilhabe an der langfristigen Unternehmensentwicklung — direkte Mitgestaltung der Produkt- und Technologie-Roadmap eines international tätigen Familienunternehmens
About EBRO ARMATUREN — Weltweiter Hersteller Absperrarmaturen | Hagen NRW
Company: EBRO ARMATUREN Gebr. Bröer GmbH — Worldwide manufacturer of industrial shut-off valves, actuation and automation technology | Headquartered in Hagen, NRW | 1,000+ employees globally | International Familienunternehmen
Products: Absperrarmaturen (shut-off valves — butterfly valves, ball valves, gate valves) · Antriebs- und Automatisierungstechnik — serving chemical, pharmaceutical, water treatment, energy, and industrial process industries globally
Culture: Starker und zuverlässiger Partner für innovative Technik und kundenindividuelle Lösungen — customer-centric, solution-oriented engineering culture with long-term perspective and family business values
F&E Context: The R&D department is responsible for the technical development of new and improved valve product ranges — managing standards compliance (DIN, EN, ISO, API, ATEX, TA-Luft, DGRL), test programs, new material and digital function development, and the product-technology roadmap
Application: personal@ebro-armaturen.com | EBRO ARMATUREN Bewerbungsportal | Personalabteilung · Karlstr. 8 · 58135 Hagen
Why This EBRO ARMATUREN F&E Leadership Role in Hagen Is a Career-Defining Opportunity in 2026
Nachfolgeplanung — Strategic Leadership Entry: This position is being filled as part of long-term succession planning — providing the incoming F&E Leitung with institutional knowledge transfer, management transition support, and the clear strategic mandate that greenfield appointments rarely receive, combined with the genuine ownership and autonomy that succession appointments at well-established Mittelstand companies consistently offer
Full F&E Ownership: Complete technical development leadership for Industriearmaturen — covering team leadership, budget responsibility, project portfolio management, standards compliance, test program responsibility, supplier and research institution relationships, and product-technology roadmap contribution — is one of the most comprehensive and career-defining senior engineering leadership scopes available in Germany’s valve and flow control technology sector
Global Valve Market: Absperrarmaturen and actuation technology for chemical, pharmaceutical, water, energy, and industrial process industries represents one of the most commercially stable, technically demanding, and globally active market segments in mechanical engineering — with sustained investment across ATEX, TA-Luft, API, and DGRL-governed applications
Familienunternehmen Advantage: EBRO ARMATUREN’s family-owned, globally active structure provides the career stability, direct leadership access, and entrepreneurial decision-making speed that the most ambitious engineering leaders consistently prefer over the political complexity and distant ownership of large corporate environments
Position Overview
This Leitung F&E Armaturentechnik (m/w/d) position at EBRO ARMATUREN in Hagen, NRW is a full-time, permanent senior engineering leadership role responsible for the complete research and development function for industrial valves (Industriearmaturen) — encompassing technical development project leadership, interdisciplinary team leadership (Konstruktion and Dokumentation), budget and resource planning, regulatory standards compliance (DIN, EN, ISO, API, ATEX, TA-Luft), test program responsibility, sales and key account management support, supplier and research institution relationships, and product-technology roadmap contribution. The role requires a Maschinenbau, Verfahrenstechnik, or Mechatronik degree, several years of industrial valve development experience, expertise in Strömungsmechanik, Festigkeitslehre, Werkstoffkunde, Dichtungstechnik, CAD/CAE (SolidWorks, Inventor, FEM, CFD), Antriebs- und Automatisierungstechnik, experience with Normen and DGRL, strong project management capability, proven team leadership experience, high innovation capability, structured analytical thinking, and strong stakeholder communication skills.
Why This EBRO ARMATUREN Leitung F&E Role Is the Armaturentechnik Engineering Leadership Career of 2026 in NRW: Senior engineers with Maschinenbau, Verfahrenstechnik, or Mechatronik qualifications and multiple years of Industriearmaturen development experience — who combine deep knowledge of Strömungsmechanik, Festigkeitslehre, and Werkstoffkunde with hands-on CAD/CAE capability (SolidWorks, Inventor, FEM, CFD), comprehensive standards knowledge (DIN, EN, ISO, API, ATEX, TA-Luft, DGRL), proven project management and team leadership track records, and the entrepreneurial thinking that translates technical solutions into market requirements — have an exceptional long-term leadership career opportunity at EBRO ARMATUREN’s Hagen headquarters. A global Familienunternehmen with 1,000+ employees, 30 days leave, Wellpass fitness, Familienservice, and the strategic mandate to lead R&D for one of Germany’s most respected industrial valve manufacturers.
Key Responsibilities
F&E Projektleitung — Technische Entwicklung Industriearmaturen
- Lead and control technical development projects for industrial valves (Industriearmaturen) — providing the engineering vision, project management structure, technical decision authority, and milestone accountability that steers development projects from initial concept through detailed engineering, prototyping, testing, and design release to production, managing the development portfolio across multiple concurrent projects with the prioritization judgment and resource balancing capability that ensures the most commercially and technically important developments receive the engineering investment they need while maintaining progress across the broader project portfolio
- Identify new technologies, materials, and digital functions for industrial valve applications — actively monitoring the technical literature, attending trade exhibitions and technical conferences, engaging with research institutions and universities, and evaluating new materials (metals, coatings, elastomers), new manufacturing processes, new digital functionalities (condition monitoring, smart actuators, digital twins, IIoT connectivity), and new engineering approaches for their potential to improve EBRO ARMATUREN’s valve product performance, reliability, cost position, and competitive differentiation in the global industrial valve market
- Take responsibility for test stands, test programs, lifetime and load tests — designing and executing the systematic experimental validation program that confirms theoretical valve designs perform as intended under the specific pressure, temperature, flow, cycling frequency, and chemical environment conditions that industrial valve applications impose, managing the test stand infrastructure and test program scheduling that provides the engineering data needed for design decisions, customer technical documentation, and standards compliance evidence
- Contribute to the long-term product and technology roadmap of the company — applying comprehensive Armaturentechnik domain knowledge, market trend analysis, competitive intelligence, and engineering feasibility assessment to inform EBRO ARMATUREN’s strategic decisions about where to invest R&D resources for maximum long-term competitive advantage and market position improvement in the industrial valve and actuation technology sector
Normen, Zulassungen & Zertifizierung — DIN / EN / ISO / API / ATEX / TA-Luft / DGRL
- Ensure compliance with all relevant standards and accompany certification processes — maintaining current, comprehensive knowledge of the DIN, EN, ISO, API, ATEX, TA-Luft, and DGRL (Druckgeräterichtlinie / Pressure Equipment Directive) requirements that govern the design, testing, documentation, and certification of industrial valves for process industry and chemical engineering applications, ensuring that all EBRO ARMATUREN valve development projects are designed to comply with the applicable standards from the earliest design stage rather than discovering compliance gaps at the certification stage, and managing the relationships with notified bodies, certification authorities, and standards committees that support efficient and successful product certification
- Support sales and key account management with complex customer requirements and special solutions — providing the authoritative technical F&E input that enables the sales team to respond credibly to technically demanding customer requirements, assess the feasibility and development cost of special-order valve configurations and customer-specific modifications, and support key account negotiations with the engineering confidence that demonstrates EBRO ARMATUREN’s technical capability to meet demanding industrial valve specifications
- Collaborate with material suppliers, research institutes, and universities — building and maintaining the external technical partnership network that keeps EBRO ARMATUREN’s R&D function connected to the latest materials science developments, advanced manufacturing techniques, and fundamental engineering research that can be translated into practical product improvements, negotiating development partnership agreements, managing joint research projects, and ensuring that external knowledge flows effectively into the internal development process
Teamführung, Budget & interdisziplinäre Koordination
- Provide professional and disciplinary leadership of an interdisciplinary development team comprising Konstruktion and Dokumentation — building, motivating, and developing a high-performing R&D team that combines mechanical design expertise with the documentation discipline that engineering product development requires, applying the leadership approach that sets clear technical standards, provides the coaching and feedback that develops individual team members’ capability, creates the team culture where technical excellence and creative problem-solving are both expected and rewarded, and resolves technical disagreements and priority conflicts with the authority and fairness that maintains team trust and productive working relationships
- Plan, budget, and monitor development projects including resource management — developing the annual F&E budget, allocating engineering resources across the development project portfolio, tracking actual expenditure against budget, identifying resource constraints and bottlenecks that threaten project milestone achievement, and managing the balance between internal engineering resource utilization and external development support (engineering service providers, test laboratories, certification consultants) that optimizes the cost-efficiency and speed of EBRO ARMATUREN’s product development programme
Requirements Summary
- Completed engineering degree in Maschinenbau, Verfahrenstechnik, Mechatronik, or comparable discipline — the engineering foundation for technical development leadership in industrial valve and actuation technology
- Several years of professional experience in the development of Industriearmaturen or adjacent areas (Pumpen, Dichtungen, Antriebstechnik, Fluidtechnik) — with a verifiable product development contribution track record
- Solid knowledge across Strömungsmechanik, Festigkeitslehre, Werkstoffkunde, Dichtungstechnik, CAD/CAE (SolidWorks, Inventor, FEM, CFD), and Antriebs- und Automatisierungstechnik
- Experience with DIN, EN, ISO, API, ATEX, TA-Luft, and DGRL standards, and with certification processes for pressure equipment and potentially explosive atmosphere-rated products
- Pronounced leadership competency and experience building high-performing development teams — demonstrated through team leadership, personnel development, and the establishment of productive, technically excellent engineering team cultures
- Entrepreneurial thinking, high innovation capability, structured analytical working approach, and strong stakeholder communication skills — the personal leadership qualities that define an effective F&E Leitung in a growing global Mittelstand Familienunternehmen
About EBRO ARMATUREN
EBRO ARMATUREN Gebr. Bröer GmbH‘s position as a globally recognized manufacturer of industrial shut-off valves and actuation technology — with over 1,000 employees worldwide, export markets across the global chemical, pharmaceutical, water, energy, and process industries, and a product range that must comply with some of the most demanding international standards in the industrial equipment market (ATEX, TA-Luft, API, ISO, DGRL) — creates an R&D leadership environment of extraordinary technical breadth, commercial consequence, and professional responsibility. The Leitung F&E Armaturentechnik who joins EBRO ARMATUREN in Hagen is not inheriting a maintenance role in a static product portfolio — they are taking over the engineering direction of a growing, innovating, globally exporting company that is actively investing in new technologies, new materials, and new digital functions to strengthen its international competitive position for the decade ahead. For senior engineers with the Armaturentechnik domain depth, the leadership capability, and the entrepreneurial conviction to lead this development function — the EBRO ARMATUREN Leitung F&E appointment in 2026 is one of the most professionally significant and personally rewarding senior engineering leadership positions available in NRW’s active industrial engineering sector.
Your Career Growth Path: Leitung F&E Armaturentechnik → Technischer Direktor / CTO → Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung — a technically distinguished, commercially consequential, and personally fulfilling engineering leadership career trajectory built at the global product development center of one of Germany’s most respected and internationally active industrial valve manufacturing Familienunternehmen.
Who Should Apply?
- Senior Valve / Armaturentechnik Engineers — F&E Leadership Ready: With multiple years of Industriearmaturen product development experience, SolidWorks and FEM/CFD capability, strong ATEX/TA-Luft/API/DGRL standards knowledge, and demonstrated team leadership who want a permanent F&E Leitung appointment at a globally active Hagen-based Familienunternehmen
- R&D Managers — Industrial Process Equipment: Currently leading product development teams in the valve, pump, sealing, or fluid technology sectors in Germany or internationally who want to apply their engineering leadership and domain expertise in EBRO ARMATUREN’s global Armaturentechnik development environment
- Senior Project Engineers — Ready for Leadership Step: Currently working as a leading senior or principal engineer in Armaturentechnik or adjacent industrial equipment development who have the technical depth and emerging leadership capability to step into full F&E Leitung responsibility with succession planning support from the existing leadership team
- Engineering Managers — Maschinenbau / Verfahrenstechnik Background: With Maschinenbau or Verfahrenstechnik degrees, several years in industrial product development including team leadership, and either current or previous industrial valve or flow control equipment domain experience who want a comprehensive F&E leadership mandate at an internationally recognized German valve manufacturer
- International Senior Engineers — NRW/Hagen Relocation: With the required degree and Industriearmaturen or adjacent product development leadership experience from Germany or abroad, strong German language skills, and interest in the professional and personal quality of life opportunity that Hagen, NRW and EBRO ARMATUREN’s stable, globally active family business environment provides
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