Engineering Head, Electrical Sector

Eaton's Electrical Sector is hiring a Engineering Head in Pondicherry, India.

What You'll Do

The Engineering Head is responsible for leading the engineering team and overseeing the development of new products, localization, and customization of existing products while ensuring that R&D efforts align with the company's strategic goals. This role will preempt the requirements for government approvals, such as GCO, to obtain BIS certifications within the stipulated timeline. Additionally, it includes driving VAVE initiatives, product transfer projects, and business process improvements in line with the Electrical Sector India business strategy while adhering to process guidelines. The role also requires leading the Integrated Product Team(s) to enhance customer satisfaction, drive continuous improvement, and manage project costs effectively. Collaboration with other departments, including marketing, sales, and production, is essential to ensure products meet market requirements and are delivered on time and within budget.

Job Responsibilities

• Must have strong leadership skills and a deep understanding of the R&D process.
• Ability to think strategically, creatively, and manage the team effectively.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to understand internal stakeholders requirements and convert them into effective solutions within the shortest possible timeframe.
• Proactive, skilled in problem-solving, and adept at team handling.
• Strong functional knowledge of Power Distribution products, and having basic understanding of Power Quality products
• Good understanding of government regulations, ensuring adherence to product certification requirements by relevant certification agencies such as COC, while staying updated with changes.
• Guides and monitors the creative effort required to design, develop, validate, and implement new products, product line extensions, VAVE, customizations, and product transfers in a timely manner, following Eaton's Stage Gate Process while meeting industry safety standards, customer performance expectations, and quality requirements.
• Ensures the accuracy and quality of information, performance, and safety data provided to departments.
• Collaborates with global R&D teams and adheres to design authority guidelines as required by the product type.
• Identifies training needs and skill set requirements for the NPD team and ensures the team is up to date on design skills, materials, and processes.
• Responsible for maintaining and running the latest test lab adhering to Eaton Safety Standards.
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly to Eaton processes, including but not limited to ProPM & Tenrox software systems, and guide teams accordingly.
• Works effectively with multidisciplinary teams, including internal and external customers, suppliers, and service providers (Test Labs and Certification Bodies).
• Represents Eaton in technical forums such as the BIS Standards Committee, IEEMA, etc.
• With the Electrical Sector India product roadmap clearly aligned toward extensive localization of LV and MV products, the incumbent should have in-depth knowledge of designing and executing products like MCCBs, ACBs, VCBs, and panel assemblies.

Qualifications

• 1820 years of experience in product development in a business and plant environment.
• Experience with electrical products, including low and medium voltage switchgear, UPS, and fuses.
• He should have led large design teams in the LV portfolio with complete acquaintance to IEC standards.
• Expertise in global product standards and certification requirements (UL/CSA/CCC/CE/BIS).
• Proven track record of successfully launching new product development (NPD), VAVE, customizations, and product/technology transfer programs.
• Hands-on experience in development, type testing, product development procedures, and concepts such as benchmarking and reverse engineering.
• Strong program and project management skills, with the ability to demonstrate methodologies, processes, and tools effectively.
• Knowledge of SAP and product lifecycle management tools (SAP PLM, Enovia).
• Proficiency in project management tools (ProPM, MS Projects).
• Expertise in CAD tools such as SolidWorks, AutoCAD, and geometric dimensioning & tolerancing (GD&T), including tolerance stack-up analysis.
• Understanding of product stewardship.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Skills

• Highly ethical with a strong result orientation.
• Strong leadership skills with the capability to lead change in an integrated team.
• Good interpersonal skills, team management, planning, and a high execution focus.
• Demonstrates a high degree of professional presence and customer interface skills.
• Highly adept at influencing and achieving results through others.
• Ability to forge strong relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Must be capable of leading effectively in diverse cultural situations with global stakeholders and team members in a matrix environment.
• Must be capable of initiating and providing recommendations for the Division Leadership Team's review and approval to achieve desired customer outcomes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication and presentation skillsboth verbal and writtenwith the ability to prepare necessary status reports and technical presentations for Eaton management and customers.
• Strong analytical skills and business acumen.
• A high level of attention to detail is essential.