Chief Engineer Advanced Manufacturing Engineering

What You’ll Do

Eaton India Innovation Center (EIIC) is looking for Chief Engineer, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, to work across enterprise manufacturing engineering. This position is based at our office in Magarpatta City, Pune. The role has to step up to provide leadership on several initiatives in advanced manufacturing engineering as part of operating for growth, and partner with senior leadership to build strategy and execute action plan for digital manufacturing roadmap.

The incumbent will lead Industrialization of Eaton’s products to ensure Launch excellence through elevated levels of integration and collaboration with product and manufacturing strategy managers, product engineering and supply chain management. The incumbent will be responsible to lead design for manufacturing efforts at product architecture stage and ensure smooth transition of product and process design from engineering to operations. As part of technical leadership, the role will work closely with business group and engineering leaders to develop manufacturing technology roadmaps, lead design for manufacturing efforts for high complexity programs, participate in manufacturing trade-off studies and develop & implement manufacturing automation solutions. The role will provide governance to drive synergies across businesses and accountable for critical program sign-off for manufacturing work packages.

Role will provide technical guidance, functional work supervision and technical approvals for work done by technical experts. Incumbent should establish positive working relations with various local and global stakeholders and cross functional team to facilitate open dialogue and trust building across the organization. The focus should be on standardization of processes and practices that will enable organization to engineer secure, future-proof, optimized solutions, while helping to improve efficiency and productivity in a data-driven framework.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute manufacturing technology roadmaps : Work with Enterprise manufacturing engineering leader to develop enterprise level manufacturing technology roadmap to enable digital, continuous & autonomous manufacturing. Work with Eaton Research Labs and business group experts to conduct state of the art studies for manufacturing techniques in areas such as traditional processes, additives, composites, joining, electronic processing, smart manufacturing and automation.
• Implement innovative manufacturing solutions : Early involvement in technology and product innovation phase to develop and implement innovative manufacturing offerings at concept architecture stage of a new product development thereby enable best quality, optimized product cost and highest manufacturing productivity. Part of the core team to adopt and implement a unified central strategy for manufacturing tech stack, including ERPs, MES, SCADA, and data platforms.
• Digitization and Automation: Enable highest operations system performance with an integrated digital thread and statistical precision. Technical consultant on projects with high level of manufacturing automation using programmable devices, systems, and tools such as artificial intelligence, robots, and computer-controlled machines.
• Manufacturing Strategy : Work with product strategy manager to complete trade-off analysis such as core vs non-core manufacturing, make vs buy and manufacturing location footprint. Participate in manufacturing capex calculations and cost model finalization. Responsible for design and process optimization to achieve manufacturing margin.
• Develop manufacturable designs : Investigate existing vs new manufacturing and assembly technologies. Optimize existing vs new parts. Integrate manufacturability & error proofing. Develop & maintain product cost model. Assess manufacturing feasibility through digital twin for component level processes as well as assembly processes. Conduct descriptive and predictive analytics for manufacturing lines.
• Process planning & development: Design and implement manufacturing processes for new products ensuring they meet quality and efficiency standards. Industry benchmarking of special / complex manufacturing processes. Identification of manufacturing wastes, bottlenecks and implement lean manufacturing principles.
• Approve first article inspection and tools : Lead high complexity manufacturing issues resolution while working with customer, supplier & plant to ensure timely execution of new product introduction, cost-out and sustaining engineering programs. Review & approve supplier first article inspection. Coordinate transfer of tools to manufacturing plants.
  
  
  

• Masters in manufacturing, industrial, mechanical or electrical engineering
• 15+ years of experience, preferably in electrical / industrial / automotive products manufacturing industry
• Expertise in industrial engineering, manufacturing systems, processes and tools
• Ability to identify opportunities for process optimization and implement cost effective solutions
• Proven track record as technical architect for high complexity industrialization projects
• International working experience at global factories through onsite deputation / assignments
• Experience developing technology roadmap and execution while working with cross functional team
• Expertise in handling new product & technology development leveraging stage gate approach
• In depth understanding and hands-on experience of working on relevant software tools and methods
• Values differences - Appreciates the values of different perspectives and cultures
• Business Insights - Applies market and competition knowledge to advance organizational goals
• Strategic agility - sees ahead clearly; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies
• Drive for results - can be counted on to exceed goals successfully
• Decision quality - makes good decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment
• Demonstrated experience in managing & developing new processes, systems and tool
• Skilled at conflict management, dealing with ambiguity and change management
• Communicates effectively - develops and delivers multi-mode communication to diverse stakeholders