Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

Designation: Mechanical Design Lead
Department: R&D / Machine Development
Function: Mechanical Engineering & Machine Development
Product: Bottle Rinser / Beverage Filling Machinery
Experience: 8–15 years in machine design and development, preferably beverage, packaging, filling, rinsing, or rotary machinery

Job Purpose
Lead the complete development of bottle rinsing and beverage machinery from concept to commissioning, ensuring that the machine meets defined requirements for performance, reliability, quality, hygiene, safety, maintainability, and manufacturability.
The role will be responsible for building the technical capability required to develop the machine internally, reducing dependency on single suppliers, strengthening supplier capability, and establishing standardized engineering, inspection, assembly, testing, and commissioning processes.

Key Responsibilities
• Lead machine development from concept design to assembly.
• Develop mechanical design, machine layout, assemblies, drawings, BOM and specifications.
• Define machine performance targets, critical parameters and design standards.
• Coordinate with Process, Electrical, Automation, Production, Quality and Procurement teams.
• Develop and qualify reliable suppliers; reduce dependency on single-source vendors.
• Establish incoming inspection, critical component inspection and material traceability.
• Develop required tools, fixtures and assembly methods.
• Lead prototype testing, FAT, and performance validation.
• Conduct troubleshooting for design, manufacturing and machine-performance issues.
• Control engineering changes, drawings, BOM and revision management.
• Drive standardization and continuous improvement of machine design.

Required Skills

Mechanical Design
• Advanced knowledge of machine design
• Lead complete mechanical design of the rotary bottling Machine.
• High-speed mechanical systems
• Material selection
• Fatigue and strength calculations
• Vibration control
• Thermal expansion
• FEA fundamentals

Beverage / Packaging Machinery
• Bottle handling systems
• Bottle rinsing technology
• Rotary machinery
• Filling/rinsing/capper machine architecture
• Bottle neck and container handling
• Hygienic machine design
• CIP principles
• High-speed machine operation

Engineering Tools
• 3D CAD
• 2D CAD
• Engineering calculations
• BOM/PLM/ERP systems
• FEA tools
• Drawing and revision-control systems

Key Deliverables
• Machine developed as per defined performance, quality and timeline targets.
• Successful prototype, FAT and commissioning.
• Reduced supplier dependency and manufacturing rework.
• The most important requirement is not only CAD/design experience.
• The candidate must be capable of owning the complete machine development cycle and converting an engineering concept
into a working production machine.
• Standardized design, documentation and inspection processes.