General Manager Engineering

GM Engineering

The GM Engineering will plan, organize, direct, control, and evaluate the activities of the design engineering group.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams.
• Mentor and develop engineering resources.
• Review engineering capacity and capacity utilization provide feedback to management on resource requirements.
• Review potential team members and recruit technical talent to suit operations.
• Develop effective project management tools.
• Develop effective tools for project tracking hours,
• Develop engineering proposals based on RFQs, RFQs, SOW/SOP, and prepare engineering quotations working with Application group.
• Develop standards for engineering.
• Develop re-use models and improve engineering efficiency through Automation, reduction of repetitive tasks, utilization of CAD automation, re-use of engineering, reduction in design and detailing errors.
• Ensure customer satisfaction through on-time delivery of RFQ responses and design approvals.

Roles:

• Manage a design team comprising of Design Managers, Design Engineers & Junior engineers.
• Effective management of resource capacity, and project timelines.
• Liaison with customers on a daily basis on various projects for technical evaluations, design review meetings and provide direction to various teams.
• Capable of handling multiple projects/customers.
• Develop camaraderie and sense of working together for a common goal.
• Enhance cross team work culture.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (SCM, Plant Operations, Quality) to align engineering deliverables with business needs.

Academic & trades qualifications:

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, M.Tech degree preferred.
• Must have 20+ Years of experience in Jigs/Fixture design, SPM design, Automated and Semi Automated Assembly lines (Powertrain lines) and some exposure in general engineering solutions.
• This position requires technical expertise to solve a wide range of challenges.
• Knowledge of Quality Systems and Management.

Deliverables:

• Provide weekly updates on resource planning and resource capacity/utilization to Management.
• Performance to Budget.
• Engineering P&L.
• Customer Satisfaction Score (CSS) for engineering delivery.
• On-time RFQ conversion and design release metrics.

Work experience & skills:

• 20 - 25 years in Mechanical Engineering specific domain.
• 10 -15 years in a supervisory role leading a team of 50 - 75 engineering staff (with expected scalability beyond 100+ engineers in next 23 years including outsourced/vendor partners).
• Excellent MS Office and Outlook skills.
• Hands-on exposure to CAD automation, digital manufacturing tools, and vendor coordination.
• Personal qualities & behavioural traits
• Excellent Written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong Leadership skills; Strong Mentoring skills.
• Excellent Presentation skills.
• Ability to build customer confidence and manage technical negotiations.