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.

- Professional experience in mechanical product development, preferably in analytical instruments, laboratory equipment, automation systems, precision engineering, medical devices, or similar product-based industries.

- Minimum 5 years of experience in technical leadership, team leadership, or engineering management.

- Strong experience in mechanical system design, injection moulding, sheet metal design, machined components, castings, forgings, and assembly design.

- Strong understanding of design verification, validation, manufacturability, supplier interaction, tooling, tolerance analysis, and product industrialization.

- Ability to lead complex technical discussions with global stakeholders and make data-driven engineering decisions.

- Strong expertise in mechanical product design, system architecture, DFM/DFA, GD&T;/ISO-GPS, and tolerance stack-up analysis.

- Proven experience in plastic part design, injection moulding, sheet metal, machined parts, castings, forgings, and material selection.

- Strong knowledge of DFMEA/PFMEA, Root Cause Analysis, 8D/A3 problem solving, NPI, product industrialization, and cost optimization.

- Hands-on experience with Creo Parametric, Windchill PLM, Jira, ALM/requirements management tools, and MS Office.

- Ability to lead technical reviews, design decisions, risk assessments, engineering change management, and issue resolution.

- Solid technical leadership with the ability to guide, mentor, and develop mechanical engineers.

- Excellent stakeholder management skills with ability to collaborate with global R&D;, manufacturing, quality, product management, and suppliers.

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