Role & responsibilities

1. Department Leadership &
- People Management:

- Head the Design &
- Drafting department; plan, allocate, and prioritize design workload across design engineers and draughtsmen against project milestones.

- Set and govern design standards, design-review gates, calculation methods, and drawing/release quality checkpoints.
- Own design throughput and on-time release of layouts, manufacturing drawings, and BOMs to Purchase and Projects.
- Mentor and develop the team; build competency matrices, conduct design reviews, and drive continuous skill upgrades.
- Build and maintain a design library, standard-component catalogue, and reusable templates to cut design lead time and improve consistency.

1. Pre-Sales &
- Solution Engineering:

- Act as the senior technical authority supporting Sales and Business Development during customer engagements, RFQ feasibility, and solution definition.

- Translate customer requirements into clear, validated technical specifications and concept layouts for automation and robotics solutions.
- Develop conceptual designs for robotic cells,



automated assembly lines, material-handling systems, SPMs, leak/functional testers, and welding stations.
- Perform and review cycle-time studies, throughput and OEE calculations, and feasibility/risk assessments before commitment.
- Approve Bills of Materials (BOMs) and provide accurate engineering input for costing and proposals.

1. Execution Handover, R&D; &
- Documentation:

- Ensure a clean handover from pre-sales to execution with complete design documentation, calculations, and specifications.

- Drive design-for-manufacture, design-for-assembly, and design-for-cost discipline across all projects.
- Evaluate current technologies, components, and automation platforms; lead internal knowledge-sharing and best practices.
- Support root-cause analysis and design corrective actions on field/quality issues, feeding lessons back into standards.

Preferred candidate profile

- Immediate candidate required.

📌 Design Manager (Vadodara)
🏢 Z Ventures
📍 Vadodara