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GM - Engineering (15+ yrs)
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Written by MBA Jobs
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Monday, 14 June 2010 |
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Job Code: 16123
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Designation: GM - Engineering
The Opportunity
Work Location is Bangalore in India, with some travel within India and abroad on technology related issues and collaborations.
Job Responsibilities
* Manage and maintain the current designs and models with incremental improvements in line with customer demands
* Ideate, design and build new products in keeping with the company’s business goals
* Involve in initiating and implementing technology absorption and its transfer from other international locations of the group
* Interaction with Production team to build prototypes for manufacturing; adherence to quality, audits, etc, during product roll-out
* Involve in product related discussions with Customers from both organised and unorganised segments
* Manage a team of design specialists and build it further as per evolving requirements
* Manage the operations of this centre independently. Run the unit as a Cost centre and ensure efficiency, maintain budgets, optimize employee cost and development, etc
* Support the top management in leading the company towards its Vision
Professional experience
Has at least 15 years of experience in areas relating to Engineering, Design or R&D. Exposure to engineering design a must. Specific areas of experience:
* R&D and Design experience in the Capital equipment industry and in Application Engineering. Exposure to Sheet Metal fabrication areas will be an advantage
* Strengths in Drawing; should have primary experience of MS Office and AutoCAD; exposure to other solutions such as ProE / PDM-System will be helpful
* Good industrial understanding and comfort with a manufacturing company’s structure and functioning
* Prior experience in managing an R&D setup, with proven ability to think strategically to align R&D efforts to organization growth
* Have good R&D Management skills - risk understanding & management, ability to manage a portfolio of projects based on cost benefit ratio, appropriate resource allocation
* Knowledge of processes to control operation flow
* High on team spirit, good people management skills and ability to push for results
* Must be result-focused, with a hands on “doer” attitude
* Exposure to R&D in a global context including technology transfer related interactions with foreign collaborators and technicians will be an advantage
* International experience or ability to deal in multicultural environment
* Ability and comfort to travel within India and abroad
Education
- Bachelor / Master of Engineering – preferably Mechanical, from a college of repute
Please reply with your latest resume to Joseph on jdevasia@antal.com
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