Lead Production & Manufacturing Engineer
Water Robotics · Hyderabad, India · Onsite · Full time
We build adaptive robots you live with (waterobots.com). Robots that are out of prototype and going into production. We need someone to build and lead the manufacturing team for these robots.
What you'll own
Manufacturability. You will work closely with the design team on DFM and DFA, fixtures, jigs and poka-yoke, and help draft manufacturing drawings as needed.
The build plan. Process flow, batch sizing, procurement coordination with the operations team, scheduling, material readiness, throughput, cycle time. You commit to dates for finished units and you hit them.
The facility. You design it. Layout, material flow, workstations, assembly and test benches, tooling, storage and traceability for a BOM that runs into the hundreds of SKUs. You decide what the floor looks like and why.
The team. Around eight people to start: assembly technicians, junior QC engineers, stores and inventory. You write the roles, run the hiring, train them, and set the standard.



Everyone on that floor reports to you.
Quality. Incoming inspection, in-process checks, first-article, end-of-line functional test on a machine with dozens of moving axes. Rejection tracking that tells us something. Supplier corrective action when a vendor drifts.
Faults. When a unit fails on the line or comes back from the field, you run the root cause to ground and close the loop with design through an ECR. You are the person who knows why it broke.
What we're looking for
You have taken an electromechanical product from engineering release through industrialisation to serial production, and stayed with it after launch. Motors, actuators, harnesses, sensors and structures assembled and tested together.
You have run a shop floor and managed the people on it. Hiring, training, shift planning, holding a line.
You have set up a line or a facility from scratch, or substantially rebuilt one.
Strong working knowledge of the pro

📌 Lead Production (Hyderabad)
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