MECH.GEN.E5

Chief Mechanical Engineer

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Chief Mechanical Engineer

engineering › Mechanical Engineering · · E5 — E5 — Executive Vice President · Executive

Enterprise-level executive accountable for the mechanical engineering discipline, strategy, and technical standards across the entire organization.

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Median pay · United States · annual

$365,168 USD

▲ +101.1% vs E1 on this ladder

Typical range ()

$286,871$464,835

Also known asMechanical Engineer I Mechanical Engineer V Mechanical Engineer Ii Mechanical Engineer Iv Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineer Iii Lead Mechanical Engineer Mechanical Engineering I Mechanical Engineering V Mechanical Engineering Ii Mechanical Engineering Iv Staff Mechanical Engineer

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engineering

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pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

Enterprise-level executive accountable for the mechanical engineering discipline, strategy, and technical standards across the entire organization. At the Executive Vice President (E5) level, the role owns a major organization line, enterprise- and market-shaping, and drives organization-line / enterprise. Senior-most leadership of an org line.

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Level differentiators

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Scope: A major organization line
Autonomy: Owns org-line strategy and outcomes
Complexity: Enterprise- and market-shaping
Impact: Organization-line / enterprise
Decision rights: Owns a major P&L and org line
Leadership: Senior-most leadership of an org line

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Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
Director of Mechanical Engineering	MECH.GEN.M5	$201,877†	confident0.05
Mechanical Engineering	MECH.GEN.P5	$148,348†	confident0.05
Lead Mechanical Engineer	MECH.GEN.S5	$64,978†	confident0.05
Chief Mechanical Engineer	MECH.GEN.E4	$417,113†	confident0.06

†National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so the dollar level is not function-adjusted.

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What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@1 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

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