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 current 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