Engineer - DMP

Eaton Corporation; Hadapsar; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation in India seeks an engineer to drive cost optimization and continuous improvement across fabrication, sheet-steel, and stamping commodities. The role partners with Global Procurement, Product Engineering, and suppliers to identify viable savings opportunities while ensuring manufacturability and regulatory compliance.

The candidate should have a strong foundation in sheet-metal processes, tooling, and part-cost drivers, with 3-5 years in a multinational engineering environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Masters in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
• 3-5 years of experience in a multinational engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Execute cost-optimization and continuous improvement in fabrication, sheet steel and stamping categories.
• Lead VAVE, resourcing, negotiation, and part rationalization initiatives.
• Generate technically and commercially viable cost-reduction ideas to boost product competitiveness.
• Drive productivity through supplier consolidation, data quality improvements, and reducing part proliferation.
• Participate in supplier/plant discussions to identify innovative cost-out opportunities.
• Analyze commodity spend data and leverage analytics to build productivity project pipelines.
• Collaborate globally with Procurement, Product Engineering and Suppliers to meet savings goals.
• Partner with Product Engineering to evaluate material substitutions, design optimization and value engineering.
• Lead CI initiatives focused on lead time reduction, scrap optimization, and process efficiency across supply base.

Skills

Value Engineering

Cross-functional teamwork

Communication

Education

Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering

Master in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Job description

What you’ll do

The primary responsibility of this role is to drivie Cost optimization,Continious improvment projects for fabrication, sheet-steel and stamping commodities. The engineer will work closely with Global Procurement, Product Engineering, manufacturing plants, and suppliers to identify, develop, and implement technically and commercially viable savings opportunities. The role requires hands-on understanding of sheet-metal materials, stamping and fabrication processes, tooling, part-cost drivers, manufacturability, and supplier capabilities. Key activities include commodity spend and part-cost analysis, value analysis/value engineering, design and material optimization, process improvement, resourcing, negotiation support, supplier consolidation, and part rationalization. The engineer will build and maintain a robust pipeline of executable projects while ensuring that proposed changes meet product performance, quality, manufacturability, and regulatory requirements.

List the essential functions (i.e. key responsibilities with expected end results) which must be accomplished in order to fulfill the purpose of your position as described above.

• A. Execute the enterprise wide strategic costoptimization, continious improvement projects for Fabrication, Sheet Steel and Stamping categories
• B. Execute VAVE, Resourcing, Negotiation, and Part Rationalization initiatives to achieve cost-out targets.
• C. Generate technically and commercially viable cost reduction ideas to enhance product competitiveness.
• D. Drive productivity through supplier consolidation, data quality improvements, and reduction of part proliferation
• E. Participate in supplier, plant level discussions to identify innovative solutions and cost-out opportunities.
• F. Analyze commodity spend data and leverage data analytics to create productivity project pipelines
• G. Collaborate globally with Procurement, Product Engineering, and Suppliers to deliver savings and category productivity goals.
• H. Partner with Product Engineering teams to evaluate material substitutions, design optimization, standardization, and value engineering opportunities while ensuring compliance with technical and regulatory requirements.
• I. Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on lead time reduction, scrap optimization, process efficiency, and cost productivity across the supply base and manufacturing operations.

Qualifications

Minimum education for this position is a Bachelor / Masters in Mechanical Engineering,Electrical Engineering with demonstrated experience in technical engineering organization. (Preferably worked in Electical industry)

3-5 years of experience with multinational engineering organization

Skills

"Hands on knowledge of Value Engineering principles & its deployment (prominantly on stamping components)"

Work & interact with global cross-functional and cross-cultural team. Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to clearly communicate to internal/external customers and suppliers.