Head of Department - Engineering - Electrical & Mechanical Design

Reports to Managing Director

CTC Up to 45 LPA

Location: Nashik (Maharashtra)

The Company:

Our client is a Mumbai-based automation and robotics company founded in 2005. They are market leaders and serve quick commerce, e-commerce, 3PL, fashion & apparel, F&B, pharma, electronics, renewable energy, and manufacturing.

Urgency: Immediate

Purpose:

Lead the combined Electrical and Mechanical Design function, delivering robust, manufacturable, and cost-optimised designs across conveyors, sortation systems, packing lines, material-handling equipment, and robotics.

Key Responsibilities:

- Team leadership: Lead and mentor the Electrical and Mechanical design teams; own design quality, standards, documentation, and timelines.

- Product design: Drive design of intralogistics equipment conveyors, sortation, profiling, packing automation, and AMR/AGV integration.

- Mechanical & Electrical / Controls: Oversee mechanical design (structures, drives, mechanisms) and electrical/controls design (panels, drives, sensors, PLC/automation architecture).

- Standardisation: Modularise and standardise designs for faster delivery and lower cost; lead design-for-manufacture and value engineering.

- Cross-functional: Partner with Product, Supply Chain, Production, and Project teams from concept through to commissioning.

Ideal Candidate:

- 12-18 years in design engineering for material handling, automation, special-purpose machines, or capital equipment.

- Strong span across both mechanical and electrical/controls design (or deep in one with proven leadership across both).

- Hands-on with CAD/PLM, automation/controls, and product design for manufacturing.

- B.E./B.Tech (Mechanical / Electrical / Mechatronics); M.Tech a plus.

- Must be able to join in 15-45 days

- Current CTC must be between 25-45 LPA