Director Manufacturing & Sustaining Engineering, Instruments

MyCareernet; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced individual for a senior engineering lead role. The candidate will be responsible for managing multi-functional teams, ensuring high-quality standards, and driving innovation in product development. Applicants should possess a Master’s degree in Engineering, along with 11+ years of experience in hardware manufacturing and at least 6 years in a leadership position. Strong communication skills and experience with multi-continent coordination are essential.

Qualifications

• 11+ years in hardware manufacturing environment.
• 6+ years in a leadership role.
• Experience with medical devices and instrumentation engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-functional team of sustaining engineers.
• Enhance supplier quality and implement process improvements.
• Drive innovation and manage NPI workflows.
• Ensure safety and quality remain a primary focus.

Skills

Cross functional relationships management

Product reliability improvement

Manufacturing processes collaboration

Budget management

Multi-continent stakeholder communication

Education

Master's degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

Skills: PLM, BOM, New Product Introduction, Medical Devices, Electrical & Instrumentation Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Build, coach, and lead a multi-function team of sustaining engineers and technicians and provide technical and professional development leadership.
• Identify opportunities to enhance both supplier quality, internal systems and implement process enhancements, to driving continuous improvements for new and on-market products.
• Develop and Drive the team to achieve short and long term goals and plans that encompass Sustaining/Manufacturing engineering and supplier technical management across manufacturing locations in Malaysia and USA.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Manage NPI and Operational workflow balance with engineering and sustaining priorities and work closely with leadership and program managers to meet design, build, and test milestones for various NPI programs.
• Ensure teams apply robust, consistent, and reliable engineering fundamentals and processes to ensure product integrity and process capability and reliability.
• Ensure safety and quality remains a primary focus across all of the functional teams

Skills Required:

• Manage cross functional relationships and alignment as part of a Developed Strategy and Plan for a horizon view of an evolving organization
• Sustain and improve on market products for reliability, out of box quality, failure investigation, supply continuity, and obsolescence.
• Collaborate with cross functional groups to identify, develop, and improve manufacturing processes and overall supply chain and operations outputs.
• Ensure timely release of engineering documentation and related technical processes in support of; assembly, test, integration, and refurbishment.
• Manage department budgets, staffing levels and capital equipment needs for Sustaining and NPI products
• Must demonstrate critical (over) communication with a multi-continent stakeholder landscape, objective and measurable in assessing conflict, and plans and project assessments aligned to the business objectives, technical compliance and quality and reliability .goals
• A Master degree in an engineering or related field with 11+ year in a hardware manufacturing environment and 6+ years in a leadership role.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Experience managing multi-functional engineering teams in a pilot & production & service environment.
• In-depth understanding of hardware and medical diagnostics equipment manufacturing engineering and test engineering principles
• Previous experience and success in developing/starting and transferring to contract manufacturers a new manufacturing processes with a product lifecycle management with associated phase gate reviews.

Education:

Master's degree in Engineering or a related technical field