Senior Engineer - Mechanical (Cost Out)

Eaton Corporation; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation in Pune, India seeks an experienced mechanical/electrical engineer to drive cost optimization and value engineering across fabrication, sheet steel, and stamping. You will work with Global Procurement, Product Engineering, manufacturing plants, and suppliers to identify savings opportunities while ensuring product performance and regulatory compliance.

The role requires hands-on understanding of sheet-metal materials, stamping, tooling, and part-cost drivers, with 6–10 years in

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Masters in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• 6–10 years in a multinational engineering setting.
• Experience in cost optimization and value engineering for fabrication and stamping.

Responsibilities

• A. Execute enterprise-wide cost optimization and continuous improvement for Fabrication, Sheet Steel and Stamping.
• 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 and plant 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 while ensuring compliance.
• I. Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on lead time reduction, scrap optimization, process efficiency, and cost productivity.

Skills

Value Engineering

Cross-functional teamwork

Supplier collaboration

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering

Masters in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Job description

What you’ll do:

The primary responsibility of this role is to drive 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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:

Bachelor / Masters in Mechanical Engineering,Electrical Engineering with demonstrated experience in technical engineering organization. (Preferably worked in Electical industry)

6-10 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.