Product Design Engineering Manager  - India

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We’re recruiting for the Product Design Engineering Manager  - India, where you will be responsible for the management of a multi-disciplined Engineering function that deliver, design and sustain newly design and internally manufactured complex power-generation products.

Why Aggreko? Here are some of the perks and rewards.

• Full-time leadership role based in Pune, India

• Competitive compensation and industry-leading benefits

• Continuous learning and career development opportunities

• A safety-first culture where your team’s wellbeing is paramount

• The chance to build and shape a state-of-the-art manufacturing site from the ground up

Role Overview: You will spearhead Design Engineering, establishing robust governance to deliver products that consistently meet specifications, budget, timeline, and exceptional quality. Furthermore, you'll oversee Sustain Engineering, driving critical product platform upgrades and retrofits to ensure uninterrupted supply and service.

What you’ll do:

• Engineering Management - Recruit, develop, mentor and manage a high performing multi-disciplined Engineering team consisting of Electrical, Controls and Mechanical skillsets.

• Drive Innovation: Oversee the end-to-end delivery of new product developments, ensuring they meet global customer demands and transition seamlessly into high-volume production with speed, cost-efficiency, and superior quality.

• Strategic Prioritization: Collaborate with key stakeholders to define clear prioritization criteria, optimize resource allocation, and consistently achieve commitments.

• Technical & Commercial Acumen: Facilitate critical technical decisions, balancing the pursuit of engineering excellence with commercial realities and dependencies.

• Financial Stewardship: Develop and manage annual engineering budgets, implementing robust capacity planning to support production and product line demands.

• Talent Cultivation: Champion team development by establishing technical competency frameworks, fostering resource growth, and creating pathways for progression and succession planning. Position Aggreko as a premier destination for technical talent, offering rich development opportunities for apprentices and aspiring engineers.

• Ensure Compliance: Take full accountability for technical documentation, product certification, and establishing subject matter experts (SMEs) within your team.

• Optimize Change Management: Own and continuously refine engineering change management processes, ensuring rigorous governance and efficient execution that delivers demonstrable business value.

• Performance Excellence: Define and manage key performance indicators (KPIs) that drive accountability and operational efficiency across the engineering function.

• Strategic Sourcing: Develop and manage external partnerships, including outsourcing and sub-contracting, to strategically manage demand peaks and access specialized expertise (e.g., CAE, CAD), mitigating business risks.

You’ll have the following skills and experience: 

• Educational Foundation: A Degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, complemented by extensive, proven management experience within the power generation packaging industry. Formal training in product development and design is essential; Chartered Engineer status is a plus.

• Seasoned Expertise: You are a fully qualified, professional engineer with deep technical acumen, capable of resolving complex issues and ensuring designs leverage the best commercial use of available technologies.

• Pragmatic Leadership: A hands-on leader with specific power generation industry design experience, you balance design investment with commercial benefits, driving practical and effective solutions.

• Extensive Experience: A minimum of 10 years in design/development within a demanding manufacturing environment, including significant experience managing professional engineers.

• Exceptional People Skills: A proven ability to develop, coach, mentor, motivate, and inspire a team of highly skilled engineers.

• Quality Champion: Demonstrated compliance with ISO9001 Quality Assurance systems.

• Resilience & Balance: Thrive under pressure, delivering high-quality results within tight deadlines, while expertly balancing reliability, maintainability, performance, and commercial constraints.

• Structured Development: Proficient in controlled simultaneous engineering and stage-gated Product Development processes.

• Proactive Problem Solver: An innate ability to quickly identify and address critical technical or workload issues at their earliest stages.

Find out more and apply now. 

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