Role & responsibilities
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.
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 explicit, 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.
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