Director - Engineering Programs

• Drive program execution across multiple departments and time zones, ensuring milestones are met, risks are mitigated, and deliverables are consistently achieved.
• Lead cross-functional global engineering programs from concept through delivery, ensuring alignment across engineering, product, operations, quality, and business teams
• Serve as the central point of accountability, escalating risks and issues proactively, and aligning teams across time zones and organizational boundaries to resolve challenges.
• Partner directly with engineering, manufacturing, R&D, and C-suite leaders to drive strategic initiatives, align technical roadmaps, and ensure execution supports long-term business goals.
• Translate executive priorities into actionable plans, ensuring engineering teams are focused on the highest-impact work, with clear visibility into progress and blockers.
• Prepare leadership communications, dashboards, and operational reviews, providing insights that drive data-informed decisions across the technology organization.
• Champion engineering team effectiveness and operating rhythm, driving improvements in planning processes, team communication, and program transparency.
• Represent engineering in cross-company forums, ensuring tight integration with business, finance, and operations functions and maintaining alignment with company-wide priorities.
• Develop and maintain product cost roadmaps, partnering with engineering, supply chain, finance, and procurement to forecast and manage cost targets throughout the product lifecycle.
• Drive cost accountability by identifying and tracking cost drivers across engineering design, supplier selection, and manufacturing processes, and implementing corrective actions as needed.
• Facilitate regular cost reviews and project updates with stakeholders and executive leadership, delivering clear insights into budget variances, risks, and opportunities for optimization.
  

Desired Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
• 15+ years of work experience in handling Engineering programs at a renewable/electro-mechanical manufacturing company, focused on high technology products. From the overall experiences, atleast 2 years owning cost roadmaps.
• Strong English communication skills both written and oral
• Demonstrated attention to detail, critical thinking skills, especially the ability to understand, and resolve conflicts and provide meaningful feedback to project stakeholders on project risks
• Motivated to act, self-driven with the ability to hold oneself and others accountable to deliverables.