Principal Accountabilities:

Project Management & On Time Delivery:

• Approve vehicle architecture sheet after studying application & customer details.
• Prepare project schedules, bids, or proposals.
• Coordinating, streamlining and guiding design team to complete all design related projects in a timely manner.
• Check all 3D Models, drawings, BOM, for accuracy.
• Responsible for approving inspection plan & critical dimensions adherence plan.

Customer Focus:

• Monitor the performance of the products and achieve minimum field failures due to design defects and work towards better performing products.
• CAPA preparation.

Design of New Products and Innovation:

• Research, Ideation, Benchmarking, Design calculations and Development of new products.
• Technical Lead for all the new projects.
• FEA Execution & Study results and Verification of VA-VE Proposals.
• Initiatives towards driving innovation.

Technical Collaboration:

• Certification & Regulatory activities calculations and documents preparation.
• ISO, TS & Audit documents preparation.
• Inventory Auditing.

People Development:

• Guidance to team members in their day-to-day job performance.
• Technical Training & Development

Knowledge & Skills needed to deliver on the accountabilities:

• Solid Works, CAD, FEA, CAE & SAP software knowledge.
• GD&T and Welding knowledge
• Product knowledge
• Process knowledge
• Customer centricity
• Interpersonal relations
• Innovative and open to new ideas

Formal Education Requirements, as applicable: Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Years of relevant Experience needed: Minimum of 8 years’ experience in Design & Development (a highly competitive customer centric industry in manufacturing sector), preferably in Automotive.