Championing Customer Needs Coordination Displaying Technical Expertise Making Accurate Judgments and Decisions

Key Responsibilities

- Lead and oversee all quality aspects of transformer design, from concept evaluation to final design approval.
- Establish and enforce Design for Manufacturability (DFM) principles in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, IEC/IS/IEEE standards, and customer specifications during the design stage.
- Review and validate design calculations, drawings, BOM’s and specifications to ensure accuracy, reliability, and safety.
- Work closely with Production, Supplier Quality, and After-Sales to integrate feedback into future designs and prevent recurring issues.
- Lead resolution of design-related customer complaints with RCA and effective CAPA implementation.
- Promote automation, digital simulation, and advanced modelling techniques for design validation.
- Enquiry support for order booking

Project Execution Support

- Ensure timely release of manufacturing drawings and design documents.
- Coordinate with Manufacturing, Quality, SCM, Marketing, and Project Management teams.
- Support customer inspections, FAT, type tests, and technical discussions.
- Monitor project milestones and ensure adherence to delivery schedules.

Team Leadership

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of design engineers.
- Review team performance and identify training requirements.
- Promote knowledge sharing, design standardization, and best practices.
- Manage resource allocation and workload planning.

Customer & Vendor Interaction





- Participate in technical clarifications during bidding and order execution.
- Provide technical support to customers and consultants.
- Coordinate with vendors for technical evaluation of bought-out items.
- Support root cause analysis and corrective actions for field issues.

Quality & Continuous Improvement

- Ensure compliance with ISO processes and design control procedures.
- Lead risk assessment and design reviews.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives for quality, productivity, and cost reduction.
- Implement lessons learned from testing, manufacturing, and field feedback.

Qualifications and Experience

- Education: / in Electrical Engineering;
- Experience: 10–14 years in electrical with strong expertise in transformer design.
- Minimum 3-5 years in a leadership or team management role.
- Experience in design of transformers ranging from distribution transformers to EHV power transformers.
- Exposure to domestic and international customer requirements.
- Experience in cost optimization, design standardization, and recent product development.

Major Challenges

- Aligning design requirements with production feasibility and cost constraints.
- Preventing design-related failures and managing change control effectively.
- Integrating field/customer feedback into design improvements quickly.
- Building a robust design validation system to reduce prototype iterations.

Decision-Making Authority

- Approve design validation protocols.
- Final authority on design quality documentation, signoffs, and design-related RCA.
- Escalate unresolved design conflicts or risks to the Design Head.

📌 Manager - Design (RRPL_JR_1043) (India)
🏢 CEAT
📍 India