Senior Technical Specialist

KONE; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

KONE is seeking a Senior Design Engineer in Chennai to lead global engineering initiatives, develop highly demanding concepts, and serve as a pivotal stakeholder in diverse development projects. The role emphasizes technical depth, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering innovative, cost-aware solutions.

The successful candidate will design customized components, create precise drawings, assess contracts, and ensure safety and sustainability while coordinating with global teams to meet

Responsibilities

• Lead global engineering projects and develop high-demand concepts.
• Design customized solutions meeting customer requirements.
• Create drawings and engineering outputs for solutions.
• Evaluate contracts and select appropriate equipment.
• Ensure safety, cost awareness, and sustainability in designs.
• Communicate progress and coordinate with stakeholders.

Job description

Job Description:

Responsibilities and key activities

• Develop highly demanding concepts and solutions globally
• Take a leading global role as an engineering stakeholder in various development projects
• May lead global development cross-functional engineering projects from several viewpoints.
• May make management decisions as substitute for management and typically can take be substitute for a manager.
• Has knowledge and understanding of KONE global equipment offering, technical design, structure and details and of the technical strengths and limitations of products.
• Analyses contracts and specifications for equipment and selects the right products for the required solution.
• Designs highly demanding customized solutions.
• Cost understanding of solutions and components.
• Takes safety aspects into account and designs environmentally sustainable solutions when possible.
• As a member of a global engineering team, shares his/her knowledge and skills with colleagues and participates actively in meetings and workshops.
• May play the role of Chief Design engineer for supporting Major Projects
• Analyses technical requirements and identifies possible solutions
• Selects the optimal product/solution that meet the customer needs
• Clarifies with relevant stakeholders in case of unclear requirements and decides the solution
• Designs the solutions and/or components to meet customer specific requirements
• Creates drawings, engineering structures or other relevant outputs for the solution
• Understands basic cost levels of different components and solutions and utilizes cost knowledge in his/her work
• Takes all design relevant aspects into account when making engineering designs, like:
• Self-checks outputs of his/her own work. Participates in checking of colleagues’ work outputs.
• Reports his/her work progress on a timely basis
• Communicates deviations from the given customer specification and passes outputs of his/her work to relevant parties on time

Performance measures

• Punctuality – service actual finish date vs planned finish date
• Response time – service duration in calendar days from opened to completed
• Productivity – service used hours vs planned hours
• Quality – First Pass Yield and Warranty Claims
• Development project specific targets

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

Read more on https://kone.com/global/en/careers.html

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