Role & responsibilities
- Lead the mechanical engineering team for product development, product care, and mechanical design activities.
- Define mechanical concepts, system architecture, design guidelines, and engineering best practices.
- Review and approve critical mechanical designs, drawings, tolerance analyses, material selections, and technical solutions.
- Drive Design for Manufacturability, Design for Assembly, cost optimization, and value engineering initiatives.
- Lead design reviews, technical decision-making, engineering risk assessments, FMEA, and structured problem-solving activities.
- Manage project priorities, resource allocation, technical planning, and engineering deliverables across multiple projects.
- Collaborate with global R&D; teams, manufacturing, quality, suppliers, and product management to ensure alignment on technical solutions.
- Drive product industrialization from R&D; to production, including supplier reviews, tooling reviews, and manufacturability improvements.
- Establish and maintain team skill matrices, competency development plans,



technical training plans, and succession planning.
- Coach and mentor engineers to improve technical depth, ownership, problem-solving ability, and independent decision-making.
- Ensure effective use of Windchill, ALM, Jira, Creo, and engineering documentation processes.
- Maintain engineering data integrity, traceability, and compliance with internal design standards and quality requirements.
- Promote innovation, continuous improvement, Lean Engineering practices, and adoption of new materials and manufacturing technologies.
- Support department-level initiatives and organizational development activities as required.
- Support in Department Tasks as and when required within the team.

Preferred candidate profile
- B.E./B.Tech/M.E/M.Tech in Mechanical engineering.
- Skilled experience in mechanical product development, preferably in analytical instruments, laboratory equipment, automation systems

📌 Mechanical Team Lead (Pune)
🏢 Metrohm Research India
📍 Pune