Deputy Manager- Program Engineering
Role Overview
A Deputy Manager- Program Engineering bridges the gap between engineering design and full-scale manufacturing.
They oversee production processes to optimize efficiency, manage costs, and ensure product quality.
The role focuses on scaling new products, improving workflows, and leading continuous improvement initiatives across the factory floor.
In this role, you’ll drive ongoing process improvement and provide hands-on support for troubleshooting, partnering with plant leadership to enable excellence on the plant floor.
Your leadership ensures the team is equipped to optimize manufacturing KPI’s and drive business results.
Key Skills for This Role
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Early engagement with Customer Engineering team Coordination with customer engineering team & Tenneco engineering Team Fulfilling customer prototype requirements, Quality & fitment of prototypes on vehicle. Co ordinating & monitoring validation (Testing activities) at customer end. Support on proto quality issues/ testing issues / fitment issues. Conducting design review with customer including manufacturing feasibility assessment. Cross functional team coordination with manufacturing plant. Help support for Engineering change implementation & documentation at manufacturing plant. Manufacturability of the product. Leads all technical activities of a project team. Leads the project team functional. Steers all activities to fulfil the customer requirement book. Ensure that quality and technical content of customer prototypes and validation samples accord to the development status. Is primary technical contact for customers, manufacturing, competence Centre, prototype manager, purchase etc. Steers the technical documentation within the development. Supports project leader by acquisition of new projects Designing manufacturing processes that meet IATF standard.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Diploma/B. E Degree in a related field or equivalent experience. Minimum of 08 to 10+ years as development engineer and / or designer in exhaust business Deep knowledge of manufacturing process design & lean manufacturing methodologies. Extensive knowledge of leading capital projects, quoting, and new product launch. Strategic vision and communication skills related to manufacturing objectives. Proven experience pursuing operational excellence within manufacturing operations.
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