Job Title: Senior Design Manager
Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Experience: Minimum 15 years overall; 7+ years in leadership
Working Days- Monday-Saturday
Employment Type: Full time

Role summary
We are seeking a seasoned Senior Design Manager with deep expertise in SolidWorks and Production line experience in Sheet Metal. You will lead design projects from concept through validation, mentor engineers, enforce design-for-manufacturability and cost‑efficiency, and drive continuous improvement in processes and tools. The role requires strong technical judgment, excellent stakeholder management, and hands-on involvement in complex sheet‑metal product development.

Key accountabilities-
- Team leadership and people management
- Recruit, develop, retain, and scale a high-performing design team (mechanical engineers, CAD leads, drafters).
- Establish clear role descriptions, career ladders, KPIs, and individual development plans.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, succession planning, and calibration with HR and senior leadership.
- Promote a culture of ownership,



continuous learning, safety, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Technical ownership and hands-on design
- Provide hands-on SolidWorks leadership for complex sheet‑metal parts and assemblies; create and review 3D models, flat patterns, BOMs, and manufacturing drawings.
- Set and enforce CAD modeling standards, naming conventions, feature suppression strategies, and template libraries.
- Approve final CAD deliverables for prototype release and production release; maintain as‑built documentation.
- Product development lifecycle & project leadership
- Drive design phases: conceptualization, feasibility, prototyping, verification, pilot production, and full-scale production.
- Define design milestones, gate criteria, quality checkpoints, and deliverables (DFMEA, test plans, validation matrices).
- Lead cross-functional Design Reviews (DRs) and Gate Reviews; present technical trade-offs and risk mitiga

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