Deputy General Manager - Vehicle Integration

- Leading Vehicle Integration team and deliver optimal package for a completely new, grounds-up vehicle program

- Work with Architecture and System COE teams to establish the overall vehicle including hard points, general layout, and modularity across potential variants.

- Integrating various system designs in a vehicle while ensuring optimal cost, quality and performance.

- Working Collaboratively with various system leads/PEL's and PEH's, CAE/NVH/Crash simulation team, safety team, homologation team, Manufacturing, Service and others to ensure all systems get integrated optimally in vehicle package.

- Developing strong relationships with cross-functional teams to align vehicle integration requirements and manage expectations.

- Define and implement best practices, tools, and processes for efficient integration, documentation, and continuous improvement throughout the product lifecycle

- To guide vehicle integration team for benchmarking from interface design, system design and integration perspective and get best practices adopted in vehicle systems

- To study the product change requests from product planning and prepare design options, change matrix to help management take decisions.

- To prepare system design change content for complete vehicle, technical report detailing various options along with decision matrices, periodic updates for project team and management.

- To ensure that throughout project execution, overall vehicle architecture, ergonomics, cost, weight, quality is not compromised.

- To work with costing and component development team to verify over all product cost and investments with respect to proposed design changes.

- To review, verify, monitor and help vehicle integration team to resolve vehicle package interface open points and Bill of materials (BOM).

- To identify critical vehicle integration risks and highlight to senior management.