Qualifications and Experience

Education:

- Bachelors degree in Mechanical / Piping / Automation Engineering with knowledge of Mechatronics & Electricals systems & components.

Experience:

- Experience with Water treatment units / Oil & Gas / Beverages Industries would be an advantage

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

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

- industrial process equipment;
- skid-mounted systems;
- containerized 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
- Design for manufacture
- Root-cause failure analysis

Soft Skills:

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

Job Title LEAD - Design & Manufacturing of Water Treatment Skid

Department

Product & Engineering

Scope of Job Role

Looking for a highly experienced, hands-on LEAD - Design & Manufacturing of Water treatment Skid to take technical ownership of the development, industrialization and manufacture of a proprietary modular industrial process system.

The design and development of a water treatment skid means creating a self-contained, pre-packaged, and modular water purification system built entirely onto a single structural steel frame (a "skid").Instead of building a water treatment plant piece-by-piece on-site out of concrete and loose pipes, the entire systemincluding pumps, filters, membranes, piping, instruments, and electrical controlsis engineered, assembled, and tested inside a factory, then shipped to the site as a single finished product.

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.

Own the engineering of the complete machine 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 standardization

This professional 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:

Machine Equipment System Engineering Management:

- Take ownership of the complete engineering architecture of the equipment.
- Convert operating requirements into a buildable engineering system.
- Oversee the creation of comprehensive manufacturing drawing packages including General Arrangement (GA) drawings, piping isometric drawings with weld maps, spool drawings, and structural base drawings.
- Monitor the development & maintenance of 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.
- Make technical trade-offs between performance, reliability, cost and complexity.

Machine Design & Industrialization Process Management:

- Take the product from engineered prototype to a repeatable manufactured machine.
- Establish modular machine architecture and standard configurations.
- Lead the design, 3D modeling, and mechanical development of the standardized and custom skid-mounted water treatment products (including RO skids, ultrafiltration blocks, and chemical dosing systems) and turn process flow diagrams into highly compact, manufacturable, and structurally sound physical products built on structural steel frames, while ensuring ergonomic maintenance access.
- 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.

Supervising 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.
- Establish a strong bond / relationship with all internal & external stakeholders, while building goodwill for the business.

Fabrication & Production:

- Work directly with fabrication and manufacturing partners.
- Ensure factory processes alignment ensuring all piping routes, spool lengths, and support locations are optimized for easy factory fabrication, shop welding, and rapid assembly.
- Resolve problems during machining, fabrication, piping, assembly and electrical integration.
- Ensure standardization of Products with supervising the creation of parametric 3D models and standardized modular templates to build a highly configurable product catalog, reducing custom engineering time per order.
- 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 & Engineering Documentation:

- 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.
- Define procedures and create loop diagrams for factory-based hydrostatic and pneumatic pressure testing.
- Ensure that all the Project details are being systematically maintained and documented by a dedicated documentation member in the project team.
- Ensure to share Work Project Reports to the CEO / Senior Management at regular Intervals and as required, along with a constant communication with the Team.

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.

Qualifications and Experience:

Education:

- Bachelors degree in Mechanical / Piping / Automation Engineering with knowledge of Mechatronics & Electricals systems & components.

Experience:

- approximately 9-15 years of relevant engineering experience, Experience with Water treatment units / Oil & Gas / Beverages Industries would be an advantage

Technical Skills : experience including substantial hands-on responsibility managing a Project Team for complete industrial machines or process systems.

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

- industrial process equipment;
- skid-mounted systems;
- containerized 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
- Design for manufacture
- Root-cause failure analysis

Soft Skills:

- Strong analytical problem-solving skills, Project Management abilities, and solid 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:

- Knowledge of CATIA automation, APIs, integrations, or customization.
- Experience with IoT, cloud platforms, simulation, analytics, or AI-enabled Digital Twin solutions preferred.
- Understanding of systems engineering / Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) concepts.
- 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 ( in India and abroad) when required.

Future pathway: A Visionary Leader who would contribute to building a trustworthy company brand in the Waste Water Treatment & Automation Industry & 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

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

Reports to :

Reports directly to CEO and carries the overall responsibility for the design, development, manufacturing of the Waste Water Treatment machine.

Compensation

As per Industry Standards

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