Job Title : Engineering Manager Mechanical - Steering

Location: Bengaluru

Role
This role leads Mechanical Core & Architecture Engineering for Steering and Driveline, covering mechanical Bill of Design and variants, systems interfaces, benchmarking, materials and metallurgy, validation, supplier engineering, and reusable core methods. The manager translates product and functional strategy into measurable outcomes, provides independent technical direction, develops people and global capability, and owns execution, budgets, suppliers, risks and closure. The role reports to the Director of Product Engineering and works with Product Lines, global Tech Centers, plants, customers, suppliers and cross-domain engineering teams.

Primary Responsibilities
• Lead mechanical commonization, reuse, variant strategy, value modelling and cost/manufacturability optimization within Bill of Design systems.
• Lead mechanical product development and architecture inputs across Steering and Driveline, ensuring requirements, interfaces, designs and verification evidence align with customer, regulatory,



quality and roadmap needs.
• Lead mechanical teardown and benchmarking and convert findings into standards, product decisions, competitive gaps, cost opportunities and technical-roadmap actions.
• Own materials engineering, product/process metallurgy, failure analysis and manufacturing/supplier support; provide mechanical technical governance while coordinating cross-domain interfaces.
• Translate functional strategy into goals, roadmaps, capacity and resource plans, schedules, budgets, risks and measurable delivery outcomes.

Core Responsibilities
• Own delivery end to end by establishing executable plans, verifying status directly, managing dependencies, recovering misses and closing actions without repeated supervisor follow-up.
• Challenge team and supplier assumptions using calculations, simulation, test evidence, manufacturing feasibility, lessons learned or appropriate SME review; re

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