Job Title

Head Product & Engineering

Department

Product & Engineering

Scope of Job Role

Looking for a highly experienced, hands-on Head of Engineering to take technical ownership of the development, industrialization and manufacture of a proprietary modular industrial process system.

This person will own the machine end to end from process architecture and engineering design through component selection, supplier development, fabrication, controls integration, testing, commissioning and ultimately repeatable production.

This is not a project-management-only role.

Need someone capable of looking at an industrial machine as a complete system, identifying weaknesses, making engineering decisions, resolving problems at supplier and workshop level, and taking responsibility for whether the final equipment works reliably in the field.

Own the engineering of the complete machine.

This includes

- Overall machine and system architecture
- Process and hydraulic design
- Mechanical engineering
- Piping and equipment layout
- Pumps, valves, vessels, heat exchangers and fluid-handling equipment
- Filtration / separation equipment and associated process modules
- Instrumentation and sensor selection
- Electrical panels and electrical integration
- PLC, automation and controls requirements
- Safety systems and interlocks
- Structural / skid / enclosure design
- Component specification and vendor selection
- Design for manufacture and assembly
- Factory testing and acceptance
- Installation and commissioning
- Reliability improvement and product standardisation The Head of Engineering does not need to personally design every discipline, but must be technically strong enough to challenge, integrate and sign off the complete engineering solution.

Job Responsibilities

System Engineering:

- Take ownership of the complete engineering architecture of the equipment.
- Convert operating requirements into a buildable engineering system.
- Develop and maintain PFDs, P&IDs;, equipment specifications, design calculations and engineering drawings.
- Define operating philosophy, process logic, control philosophy and system interfaces.
- Review existing designs and identify opportunities to improve reliability, simplicity, footprint, energy use, manufacturability and cost.
- Make technical trade-offs between performance, reliability, cost and complexity.

Machine Design & Industrialization:

- Take the product from engineered prototype to a repeatable manufactured machine.
- Establish modular machine architecture and standard configurations.
- Reduce unnecessary custom engineering between installations.
- Own design-for-manufacture and design-for-assembly.
- Define engineering tolerances, interfaces, specifications and quality standards.
- Maintain the engineering BOM and control design changes.
- Drive standardisation of parts and assemblies wherever technically appropriate.

Mechanical & Process Integration:

Provide technical leadership across

- fluid handling and hydraulic systems;
- pumps and pumping systems;
- valves and actuators;
- vessels and tanks;
- piping and pipework;
- filtration and separation systems;
- heat-transfer equipment;
- instrumentation;
- pressure systems;
- dosing and cleaning systems;
- structural frames and skids;
- electrical and control integration.

The successful candidate should be comfortable moving between individual component-level problems and overall system performance.

Automation & Controls:

- Define the required automation architecture together with controls and software engineers.
- Specify instrumentation, sensors, actuators, PLC I/O and control requirements.
- Develop operating sequences, alarms, interlocks and fail-safe logic.
- Ensure mechanical, process,



electrical and software systems operate as one integrated machine.
- Support development of remote monitoring, diagnostics and predictive-maintenance capabilities.

The role is not primarily a software-development position, but the Head of Engineering must understand industrial automation sufficiently to own the overall machine.

Suppliers & Procurement Engineering:

- Technically qualify suppliers, fabricators and specialist vendors.
- Review vendor drawings, quotations and technical submissions.
- Identify technically equivalent alternative components and suppliers.
- Work with procurement to reduce cost without compromising machine performance or reliability.
- Challenge supplier lead times, specifications and unnecessary engineering complexity.
- Develop strategic suppliers for repeat production.

Fabrication & Production:

- Work directly with fabrication and manufacturing partners.
- Resolve problems during machining, fabrication, piping, assembly and electrical integration.
- Establish manufacturing drawings, assembly instructions and engineering standards.
- Define inspection and quality-control requirements.
- Develop a repeatable production and testing process.
- Support localisation and alternate-sourcing programmes where appropriate.

Testing, Validation & Reliability:

- Define factory acceptance testing and performance-testing requirements.
- Personally lead engineering investigation where machines do not perform as intended.
- Root-cause failures across mechanical, process, instrumentation, electrical and control systems.
- Introduce corrective engineering changes.
- Build reliability and maintainability into future machine generations.
- Establish engineering data and evidence required before a design is released for production.

Installation & Commissioning:

- Define site engineering and installation requirements.
- Support installation and commissioning of initial machines.
- Troubleshoot field problems directly when required.
- Ensure lessons from commissioning are incorporated back into product engineering.
- Reduce installation and commissioning time as the product matures.

Engineering Team:

Over time, build and lead the engineering organisation required around the product, potentially including:

- Process Engineer
- Mechanical Design Engineer
- Electrical / Controls Engineer
- Automation / PLC Engineer
- Production Engineer
- Commissioning Engineer
- CAD / Design Engineer
- Technical Documentation / Configuration Control The Head of Engineering should determine which capabilities must sit internally and which can remain with specialist partners.

Qualification and Experience

Education:

- Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Automation, Robotics, Electrical/Electronics Engineering or a closely related discipline.

Experience:

- Experience with water or oil related projects would be an advantage

Technical Skills : approximately 9-15 years of relevant engineering experience, including substantial hands-on responsibility for complete industrial machines or process systems.

Robust candidates are likely to have worked with some combination of:

- industrial process equipment;
- skid-mounted systems;
- containerised plant;
- fluid-processing equipment;
- filtration or separation equipment;
- thermal systems;
- industrial machinery;
- chemical/process plant packages;
- food / beverage process equipment;




- pharmaceutical process equipment;
- utility equipment;
- OEM engineered products.

Experience purely in project coordination or consulting without responsibility for physical equipment delivery will not be sufficient.

Technical Background:

Strong practical knowledge of several of the following is expected:

- Mechanical engineering
- Process engineering
- Fluid mechanics / hydraulics
- Pumps and valves
- Piping systems
- Pressure systems
- Heat exchangers
- Filtration / separation
- Instrumentation
- Industrial electrical systems
- PLC and automation systems
- P&IDs; and PFDs
- Engineering drawings
- BOM management
- FAT / SAT
- CE / UKCA or equivalent machinery compliance
- Design for manufacture
- Root-cause failure analysis A Mechanical, Chemical, Process, Mechatronics or closely related engineering degree would be preferred.

Soft Skills:

- Solid analytical problem-solving skills, Project Management abilities, and strong team collaboration.

Competencies

- Planning & Organizing ability
- Good English Communication (oral and written)
- Multi-tasking ability & Prioritization skills
- Problem-solving ability
- Analytical ability
- Innovative ability
- Good Interpersonal Skills
- Team working ability
- Pressure management ability & Time
- Detail orientation

Skills and Knowledge

Technical Skills:

- Experience with Dassault Systmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
- Knowledge of CATIA automation, APIs, integrations, or customization.
- Exposure to ENOVIA, DELMIA, SIMULIA, or other Dassault Systmes solutions.
- Experience with IoT, cloud platforms, simulation, analytics, or AI-enabled Digital Twin solutions.
- Understanding of systems engineering / MBSE concepts.
- Experience in automotive, aerospace, industrial equipment, manufacturing, or high-tech engineering domains.
- PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, or equivalent project management certification.
- Strong practical understanding of fabrication, piping, pumps, valves, instrumentation, electrical panels and controls integration.
- Comfort reading BOMs, P&IDs;, engineering drawings and vendor specifications.
- Proven ability to manage suppliers, negotiate around cost and delivery, and hold vendors accountable.
- Commercial awareness — able to balance technical quality, cost, lead time and manufacturability.
- Execution-focused, organized and willing to be physically present at workshops, suppliers and commissioning sites when required.

What we are expecting in the 1st year

Success in the Role:

Within the first 12 months, the Head of Engineering should have:

1. Taken full technical ownership of the existing machine.
2. Established a controlled engineering design baseline.
3. Identified and resolved major design and reliability weaknesses.
4. Produced a complete controlled engineering and manufacturing pack.
5. Reduced unnecessary component and supplier complexity.
6. Improved manufacturability and assembly.
7. Established FAT, commissioning and engineering-change processes.
8. Developed a standard modular product architecture.
9. Reduced dependence on individual external engineers and suppliers.
10. Built the engineering capability required for scaled production.

Role Progression The successful candidate will initially lead this build and, as production scales, will have the opportunity to step into a Production Manager role with responsibility for repeatable manufacturing, supplier performance, quality, cost and delivery.

Reports to

Reports directly to senior company leadership and carries overall responsibility for product engineering.

This is intended to become the senior technical leadership role for the company’s industrial equipment platform.

Compensation

As per Industry Standards

📌 Head - Product & Engineering (Male candidates age bet30-48 only apply) (Mumbai)
🏢 Botnotch Technologies
📍 Mumbai