Job Summary

The QVE (Quality Value Engineering) Technical Lead role at Schneider Electric is a specialized leadership position focused on driving cost optimization, quality improvements, and value engineering initiatives across product lines.

Responsibilities

- Value Engineering Leadership: Lead QVE initiatives to reduce product costs while maintaining or improving quality and performance.

- Work closely with RD, procurement, manufacturing, and marketing teams to identify and implement cost-saving opportunities.

- Collaborate with global hubs and regional teams (e.g., China, France) to ensure alignment and knowledge transfer.

- Oversee multiple QVE projects simultaneously; align with all stakeholders (Quality, Indus, GSC) to ensure they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet performance targets.

- Supplier Engagement: Collaborate with suppliers to explore alternative materials, components, or manufacturing processes that can reduce costs.

- Collaborate with other global hubs (e.g., China, France, NAM) for all aspects of engineering documentation and support, gate approvals, know-how and knowledge transfer.

- Planning Execution: Develop project plans using Work Breakdown Structures; manage project schedules and monitor KPI achievements for all line localization projects.

- Conduct risk analysis and implement corrective actions.

- Work closely with Product Owners on product technical specifications and offer Technical Leaders for engineering documentation and testing plans, certification requirements.

- Develop and test product qualification, certification, and reliability requirements.

- Provide technical guidance to cross-functional teams, especially GSC assigned to these projects.

- Manage execution of manufactured samples build, validation, and testing in close coordination with GSC Technical Quality Team.

- Prepare all artifacts, documents, results, and presentations for stage reviews to meet the stage gates criteria.

- Provide input into project gate reviews (e.g., Do Gate).





- Establish governance mechanisms to track QVE project progress and report savings and performance metrics to senior leadership.

- Ensure timely reporting and updates to all stakeholders on project status and risks.

- Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis to resolve design-related failures during QVE implementation and stabilization.

- Drive innovation and continuous improvement in product design, testing, and validation processes.

Qualifications

- Education: Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, or electromechanical engineering.

- Experience: Minimum 4-7 years engineering, manufacturing, or product development.

- Certifications in PMP, dFSR, quality tools desired.

- Preferred: Experience in LV domain, with strong understanding of breakers, MCB, RCB, MCCB (overload relay, contactor, MPCB).

- Skills: Experience in product life cycle product design development, production, costing, quality, value engineering; fair knowledge on continuous engineering process with good project management skills.

- Good knowledge on design tools PDM/PLM/Creo.

- Past experience in SE tools (PDM/Symphony/MCSV/3D/2D drawing release) SE process is an added advantage.

- Expertise in CAD tools such as PDM, Creo and geometric dimensioning tolerancing (GDT), including tolerance stack-up analysis.

- Knowledge of GDT and tolerance stack-up.

- Fair knowledge on manufacturing processes (e.g., molding, stamping, machining, moulding, etc.) and assembly processes with decent knowledge on materials selection.

- Valuable communication and presentation skills-both verbal and written-with the ability to prepare necessary status reports and technical presentations to stakeholders.

- Proven track record of successfully launching new product development, QVE, customizations, localization of products part and product transfer project.

- Familiarity with industrial costing and supply chain optimization.

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📌 Engineer II / Senior Technician II, Electromechanics (Hyderabad)
🏢 Schneider Electric
📍 Hyderabad