Team Leader / Sr. Engineer - System Design

valeo; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Valeo in Chennai seeks a seasoned R&D Team Leader/Architect to guide engineers and technicians, run reviews, shape training plans, and allocate staff to projects. You will drive the deployment of engineering processes and ensure robust design across programs, with a focus on standardization and performance.

You will contribute to recruitment and budget oversight, lead a multinational, multicultural team and advance career growth while delivering high-impact mobility engineering solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience leading an R&D team of engineers and technicians.

Responsibilities

• Manage team reviews, meetings, missions, objectives.
• Define qualifications and training plans with management support.
• Allocate team to project activities.
• Propose trainings and career evolutions with management support.
• Contribute to recruitment for the department.
• Propose and follow the budget for the team.
• Ensure deployment of 5 axes methodology and team standards.
• Support RAISE team by ensuring knowledge and implementation of standards.

Skills

Team leadership

Training & development

Project staffing

Recruitment support

Budget oversight

Job description

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Management & Competency:

• Manage his team of engineers and technicians (yearly reviews, meetings, missions, objectives)
• Define the necessary qualifications and training plan for his team with the support of his management
• Allocate his team staff in the projects activities
• Propose trainings and career evolutions with the support of his management
• Contribute to the recruitment of the members of his department

Budget:

• Propose and follow the budget for his team
• Responsible of the Team Efficiency Plan and achievements

Process, Methodology, Tools, Equipment:

• Deploy the Engineering process, methodology and tools defined by / together with the Engineering discipline Manager / Director
• Participate to the definition of processes, methods and the tools necessary to properly handle projects
• Ensure the full deployment of 5 axes methodology
• Participate to the improvement of the standards, methods & tools of his Engineering discipline

Standardization & Robust Design

• Support RAISE team by ensuring knowledge, training and implementation of the standards
• Review and challenge Destandardization requests before release
• Ensure that each single design is achieving the highest level of Robust design.

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Permanent contract Job Posting Date: 2026-01-24

Join Us !

• - one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
• - a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
• - more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
• - a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com