Company Description Schematic Engineering Industries Private Limited manufactures specialized isolators, glove boxes, and containment equipment that conform to cGMP standards for the pharmaceutical, chemical, and food industries. The company offers an extensive product range for application isolators used in API/bulk drugs and formulations, including sterility testing, capsule packing, micronising, filling lines, and centrifuges.

With head offices in Sheffield, UK, and Hyderabad, India, Schematic designs and manufactures isolators tailored to specific end-user requirements. The team also integrates its solutions with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), such as filling line and packaging machines, providing complete containment and process solutions. This environment offers engineering professionals exposure to complex, customized projects and international collaboration.

Role Description The Design Manager is a full time, on-site role based in Hyderabad, responsible for leading the design and development of isolators, glove boxes, and containment systems. The role involves managing a team of designers and engineers, planning design activities, allocating tasks, and ensuring that all projects meet technical, cGMP, and safety standards.

The Design

Manager will oversee concept development, detailed engineering, and design reviews, coordinating closely with production, quality, and project management teams to ensure seamless execution. They will collaborate with sales and customers to understand user requirements, translate them into practical designs, and adapt solutions for integration with OEM equipment such as filling and packaging lines. Day-to-day responsibilities also include maintaining design documentation, improving design processes and standards, mentoring team members, and supporting continuous innovation in product offerings.

Qualifications

- Strong mechanical or process equipment design skills, including experience with containment systems or similar engineered products.
- Proficiency in CAD tools (e.g., SolidWorks, Solid Edge, AutoCAD) and familiarity with design documentation, drawings, and BOM management.
- Knowledge of cGMP standards, pharmaceutical or chemical process requirements, and safety and compliance considerations.
- Demonstrated leadership and team management skills, including task planning, mentoring, and cross-functional coordination.
- Ability to manage customer requirements, translate specifications into design solutions, and collaborate with OEM partners.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making abilities, with attention to detail and quality.
- Effective communication skills for working with international teams and presenting designs to internal and external stakeholders.




- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, or a related discipline; experience in pharmaceutical engineering or equipment design is an advantage.
- Experience in project management, design process improvement, and documentation control is beneficial.

Detailed responsibilitiesTechnical ownership
- Review customer URS, order scope, exclusions, process needs and risk classification; establish the design basis and allocate engineering work.
- Approve GA, P&ID;, calculations, 3D assemblies, fabrication drawings, bought-out specifications and BOMs before release.
- Ensure pressure/vacuum, structural, thermal, airflow, ergonomic, lifting and transport calculations are performed to the level required by project risk.
- Lead technical decisions for isolator architecture, airflow/pressure cascade, HEPA arrangement, VHP distribution, glove/RTP interfaces, decontamination boundaries and maintenance strategy, with specialist inputs where required.

Design governance and standardisation

- Maintain standard modules, drawing templates, material specifications, approved components, design checklists and lessons-learned database.
- Control design revisions and prevent uncontrolled changes after approval; quantify cost and schedule impact before accepting customer changes.
- Drive value engineering without weakening containment, GMP, safety, reliability or lifecycle serviceability.
- Review recurring NCRs, FAT punch points and service failures and implement permanent design corrections.

Team and project delivery

- Prepare engineering schedules linked to project milestones and balance workloads across multiple custom projects.
- Conduct concept, 30/60/90-percent and pre-release design reviews; record decisions, owners and closure dates.
- Coach engineers in Solid Edge, sheet metal, fabrication, tolerance, hygienic design and design documentation.
- Coordinate daily with Projects, Production, QA/QC, Purchase and Automation to remove execution constraints.

Customer and compliance interface

- Represent engineering in customer design reviews and explain technical solutions, limitations and deviations with evidence.
- Ensure compliance with customer URS and applicable cGMP, machinery safety, electrical interface, pressure/vacuum and export-market requirements.
- Support FAT/SAT,



technical investigations and critical field modifications.

Cross-functional working and operating discipline
- Work in an engineered-to-order environment where customer URS, layout, process, containment, automation and documentation requirements vary from project to project.
- Use SAP and approved document-control systems for BOMs, material status, project records and release control, as applicable to the position.
- Follow Schematic's quality system, EHS requirements, confidentiality obligations and change-control process; do not release unapproved drawings, software, documents or commercial commitments.
- Coordinate constructively across Sales, Applications, Design, Automation, Purchase, Production, QA/QC, Projects, Service and Finance rather than working as an isolated function.

Performance measures

Measure

Expected evidence

Engineering on-time delivery

Design milestones achieved without delaying procurement or production

Design quality

Reduction in design-origin NCR, rework, cost leakage and FAT punch points

Standardisation

Increasing reuse of verified modules and reduction in engineering hours per comparable project

Change control

No uncontrolled scope/design release; cost and schedule impacts documented

Team capability

Skill matrix improvement, review discipline and successor development

Required experience and competencies

- Strong experience in engineered stainless-steel equipment, preferably pharmaceutical containment, isolators, cleanroom/process equipment or special-purpose machinery.
- Advanced 3D CAD and drawing-review capability; Solid Edge preferred.
- Working knowledge of stainless-steel fabrication, TIG welding, polishing, seals, filters, instrumentation and pneumatic systems.
- Ability to lead customer-facing technical reviews and make risk-based decisions.

Expected outcomes in the first six months
- Establish a visible engineering plan and review cadence for all active projects.
- Identify the top recurring design failures and issue controlled standard corrections.
- Release at least one major project to production with documented design-basis and review closure.

Candidate discussion

Shortlisted candidates should be prepared to discuss one or two relevant projects personally handled, the exact responsibility taken, calculations/drawings/data used, problems encountered, decisions made and measurable result achieved. Samples may be shown only if they do not violate a current or former employer's confidentiality.

Note: This JD defines the present scope of the role. Project allocation and reporting interfaces may be adjusted according to business requirements, while maintaining appropriate authority and accountability.

📌 Design Manager (Hyderabad)
🏢 Schematic Engineering Industries Private
📍 Hyderabad