Executive - Application Engineering

Role :

As an engineering driven company ,Orbit strives to design and develop bespoke solutions that exceed customers performance expectations under challenging application conditions. Our best-in-class design and validation capabilities together with the advanced manufacturing plants enable practical realisation of innovative ideas .

The company plans to expand its business and engineering cooperation with global and Indian automotive customers with focus on high performance bearing solutions for transmission, driveshaft, differential and axle wheel end applications.

Application Engineers represent the technical face of the company to its customers and will play vital role in translating customer expectations into sound and successful technical proposal on the behalf of ORBIT

Key responsibilities include:

• Be responsible to manage excellent technical relations with the company’s customers – especially with R&D and Quality Management functions.
• Collect, document, and interpret application requirements of the customers for new projects and align the same with the internal functions at Orbit to build comprehensive and qualitative design input.
• Work on modelling of rolling bearings and drive systems, carry out detailed calculations including – but not limited to load and stress distribution, and running dynamic simulations using advanced software like Romax.
• Interpret, verify results from the software, assess performance outcomes of various design alternatives and present optimum solution with the goal of creating real value for the customers.
• Together with R&D team, develop new and innovative designs for new customer projects or make a proposal to redesign an existing solution for enhanced performance. Present design solutions to customers concisely with clarity on the application concept, design criteria , product features and performance estimation.
• Be part of the Company’s product development team that drives APQP process – and ensure success of the product development in terms of quality , speed, and performance .
• Maintain close contacts with customers to identify and pursue opportunities. Coordinate with internal functions and sales teams to convert opportunities in business acquisition.
• Obtain quick and accurate understanding of the performance issues reported by customers. Act with alacrity following Gemba rules , adopt a strong problem-solving approach to analyse the root cause . Work with the customer and the company’s internal teams to ensure effective closure of these problems
• Lead the team to carry out deep returned part analysis and coordinate the outcome with internal teams and with the customers.
• Represent Orbit at new customers , and during seminars and exhibitions through impactful visits and presentations.

Education:

Must:

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Skills :

Strong Engineering Competence

Thorough understanding of automotive power train

Proficiency in modelling and simulation software – Romax or similar

Technical Problem-solving skills with hands on approach,

Good communication and documentation skills.

Experience

4 to 8 years of R&D / application engineering experience in Bearings and or power train components.

Candidates with lesser experience will be groomed for the role.

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