Job Description:
Job Title: Lead Manager.
Experience: 12+ Years.
Job Type: Full time Permanent.
Job Location: Bengaluru, India.
Responsibilities:
- Leading a team of smart engineers to provide the leadership to product development activities of CDU's
- Lead the team of designers, Sr. Designers and SME's Designer Specialists to ensure designs meet customer requirements, are optimized for manufacturability, incorporate standard processes, etc.
- Perform the component selection, sizing and arrive at optimal cost effective design solutions
- Have an understanding on the competitor products to benchmark, analyze and understand the current product gaps and introduce the solutions to overcome these in current or New products as needed
- Team up with operations leadership, manufacturing engineers, and quality engineers to simplify designs and improve manufacturability.
- Specify purchased part requirements and work with Supply Leaders to source parts for use in designs.
- Work with multi-functional teams to help launch products by taking market specifications from design to prototype to production. This covers both branded platform products and products engineered for specific customer applications.
- Apply specific technological expertise to projects (i.e. Heat Transfer, Hydraulic Network Design, Sheet Metal Design, Weldment Design, etc).
- Work closely with Sales and Marketing/Global Stakeholders to partner with Cross functional team, customers, engage in industry partnerships, and establish other relationships enabling us to advance our product and technology reach.
- Collaborate with Engineering/Project Leaders on tasks scope, time lines and ensure the project deliverables.
- Design test specifications and protocols, coordinate testing in our world class laboratory facility, and help review test reports for the completion and accuracy of information.
- Direct outside test activities such as regulatory or other third party testing.
- Work with outside vendors and help develop designs and related technologies
Required Skills & Experience :
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Mechanical or related engineering field.
- Exp:12+ years of work experience preferably with exposure to Datacenter/cooling Product design with at least 5 years of experience in leading the teams
- Proven track record of working with Electromechanical systems with an exposure to structural and Thermal design
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop engineering teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively manage cross-functional teams and resolve conflicts
- Experience in performance management, including setting goals, providing feedback, and conducting evaluations
- Ability to motivate team members, recognize achievements, and support professional growth
- Skilled in resource planning, delegation, and workload balancing to ensure project success
- Experience in recruiting, onboarding, and retaining top engineering talent
- Knowledge of Sheet metal design and knowledge of manufacturing processes is a must
- Knowledge of P&ID/ Hydraulic networks and schematic Diagrams will be a plus
- DFM & A is a must to have to ensure the manufacturability of the products intended to design
- Experience in design and failure analysis tools such as DFMEA, 8D/RCCM etc.
- Ability to design components and assemblies using 3D CAD systems (i.e. SolidWorks) and knowledge will Enovia will be a plus
- Knowledge of psychometric analysis and refrigeration is a plus.
- Experience in NPI Stage Gate process.
