Key Responsibilities

1. Team Leadership & Pre-Engineering Process Ownership
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of pre-engineering executives, setting clear priorities, workload allocation, and quality standards for customer data review and engineering package preparation.
- Own and continuously improve the pre-engineering process (data review, DFM/DFA checks, BOM validation, engineering release) to reduce turnaround time and eliminate downstream production issues.
- Establish standardized checklists, templates, and review gates for pre-engineering readiness across all new product introductions.
- Define and track team KPIs data review TAT, right-first-time engineering release rate, open query ageing, and post-release issue rate and drive corrective actions.

2. Customer & Engineering Data Governance
- Own the review and sign-off of customer packages (BOM, Gerber, schematics, assembly drawings, ECNs) for completeness, consistency, and manufacturability prior to NPI release.
- Act as the technical escalation point for complex data discrepancies, design ambiguities,



or manufacturability risks, coordinating directly with customer engineering teams where required.
- Ensure robust configuration and revision control of BOMs, drawings, and ECNs across the NPI lifecycle in the ERP/PLM system.

3. DFM/DFA & Manufacturability Leadership
- Drive rigorous Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) reviews on recent PCB layouts and assembly drawings, ensuring yield, cost, and process risks are identified and resolved before build.
- Partner with Process Engineering and Industrial Engineering to validate component placement, panelization, fixture/tooling, and line-balancing implications of new designs.
- Provide structured technical feedback to customers and internal design teams on component selection, footprint standards, and design-for-cost opportunities.

4. Cross-Functional & Program Management
- Represent Pre-Engineering in NPI program reviews, providing

📌 Manger Pre-Engineering (Mysuru)
🏢 Kaynes Technology
📍 Mysuru