- As head of new product development, you will be responsible for driving vision, design strategy, and implementation of the current products as well as a new product to support business.
- Responsible for leading the engineering department, including planning, management, execution, and support of current /new product inclusive of the day-to-day product management, scope management, issue, and risk management as well as regular status reporting.
- Involve the technical team from the Manufacturing, Design & Engineering Department, and any other stakeholders to know the customer requirements.
- Providing technical support to the business development, and design teams.
- Lead the preparation of technical documentation and analysis of work with marketing department on product development, market opportunities, and trends Coordinate with manufacturing & Quality to ensure the manufacture of the product while maintaining quality, safety, and environmental standards and achieving cost targets in a timely fashion.
- Report on engineering activities on a regular basis to the senior management team, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of the relevant key performance indicators.
- Responsible to execute product development via the production team.
- Responsible for monitoring of product development phase.
- Responsible for timely delivery of projects.
- Working, validation & verification of design calculation, analyzing, feasibility study for new conceptual designs.
- Coordinating with planning dept., manufacturing dept. along with quality dept. to achieve the targeted new product development.
- Managing overall development-related operations and ensuring timely accomplishment of efficiency and productivity targets.
- Minimizing performance bottlenecks for higher productivity by maximizing men, material, and machine.
- Managing all NPD, manufacturing/operations, and commercial activities to ensure that profits, revenues, quality targets are met timely.
- Shall be responsible for ensuring the product certification & maintaining the compliance certification.
- Checking of Safety procedure at manufacturing set-up.
- Preparation of manpower as per planning.
- Skill mapping of manpower with respect to the operation.
- Maintains safe and clean work environment by educating and directing staff on the use of all equipment, and resources; maintaining compliance with established policies and procedures.
- Ensures equipment operation ready by Maintenance cycle; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
- Line balancing to meet and handle customer requirements and fluctuations in terms of manpower and resources.
- To maintain daily, weekly, and monthly production reports with all relevant data and presenting to top management.
- Define pack and cell requirements, and find the best options for product volume, weight and run time requirements.
- Develop test and validation plans for manufacturing and characterizing battery packs.
- Work with safety, reliability, operations, and other cross-functional partners to integrate the battery into the final system.
Desired Candidate Profile :
- Degree/Master in Electrical or Electronics engineering.
- Total 3-6 years of experience in managing design and development / Battery management in EV or energy Storage, solar batteries.
- Hands-on experience in managing manufacturing and testing process of lithium-ion battery packs.
- The candidate should have experience in managing & leading a team.
- Knowledge of various Li-ion cell chemistry .
- Experience with battery protection modules and safety standards.
- Experience in battery pack interconnection design, thermal management, and safety.
- Knowledge of high-volume manufacturing processes and/or automation is highly desirable.
- Experience with the full life cycle of product development processes.
