Engineering Manager - Automotive

COMPETENCIES :

- Technical skills in developing products for Industrial market applications, plastic and metal processing, electro-mechanical design preferred. Knowledge of IEEE standards desirable

- Familiarity with engineering tools (LDFSS or DMAIC), processes and risk assessment methods (eg FMEA, DOE) and other relevant engineering process methodologies

- Excellent motivational skills: a person with the ability to set goals and inspire trust and Project planning and Execution skills

Responsibilities :

RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Supports Regional leadership and contributes to the definition of the clear technology portfolio for the sub-BU aligned with the overall BU portfolio strategy

- Closely works with the Product Management to define a solid and transparent pipeline of the developments to be executed, both internally and externally

- Be a strong technical partner and provide support to Product management teams.

- Attend/support customer meetings and technology days.

- Drive cost-out activities for Device products by applying VA (Value Analysis) process

- Supporting the Operations leadership in the transformation of materials and manufacturing processes

- Build and provide leadership to Device Bangalore engineering team with responsibility for a wide variety of product development and sustaining activities for Device's products

- Support product compliance and approvals for all new products and platforms as required by our customers.

- Achieves results by implementing a rigorous development and project-management process

- Monitor all business-critical engineering metrics with regular reports to management to show progress toward monthly/quarterly/annual goals.

- Delivers constantly on commitments with the specific focus on - Launch on Time-

- Closely works with Product Management, Operations, and Sales to ensure flawless execution of the product development

- Embraces the Continuing Improvement paradigm and achieves YoY engineering productivity by continuously eliminating waste, improving the team's focus and prioritization, upgrading talent / improving capabilities, and expanding team in India

- Improves customer intimacy of the team. Partners effectively with the sales organization to drive the VoC and the ability of the team to develop the right offering to the customer

- Empower the team to grow and achieve results through supported development and coaching.

- Successfully facilitate transfer and support of new product introduction (NPI) into high volume manufacturing.