Manages and allocates R&D; resources to execute innovation projects for the businesses. Provides necessary direction to advance technology relevant to the business.

What you’ll do

- Provides leadership for the team to meet its short and long term goals.

- Provide leadership to innovate new differentiating products and services. Lead innovation events to shape ideas from the team and contribute to MGTP and MGPPs.

- Lead strategic initiatives to improve the overall execution performance, reliability, cost and manufacturability.

- Develop and control the schedule and direct the work to effectively manage time. Monitor progress & achievements on projects. Provide regular reports on development & support activities

- Manage and develop people: identify, attract and develop key engineering talent for the organization.

- Recruits and retain a team of engineers and support staff to provide both local product development and engineering services to the global engineering needs. Train, develop & motivate subordinates to achieve their professional goals & review their accomplishments.

- Support current and future business needs through the development, engagement, motivation and retention of employees.

- Support/Drive overall strategy for engineering team processes and capabilities to deliver high performance, on-time delivery in line with the business objectives & stakeholder needs.

- Conducts project reviews to requirement analysis and product design. Identification of risks, creating mitigation plans & analyzes errors and improvements.

- Demonstrates and leads Signify values and philosophies to sustain a culture of inclusiveness.

- Utilizes DFSS concepts / tools such as PDSC, P-Diagram, DFMEA, Risk Management & DVPR for new product development &/or existing product improvements.



Enrich & foster climate of innovation to drive growth & accelerate capability development and generate IP through disclosures and patents / trade secrets.

- Look for opportunities to expand/grow business, build customer relations, influence, negotiate to set realistic expectations with customers.

What you’ll need

- Bachelors / Masters degree in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical) 15+ Years of experience in leading multi skilled engineering team driving new product development.

- Sound knowledge on ambient and architectural lighting products, connected lighting and sensor integrations, experience in driving New Product development involving Sheet metal & Plastic design, 2D / 3D CAD package (Solid Works, Creo, AutoCAD) and manufacturing.

- Should have strong knowledge about drawings, dimensioning standards, tolerance standards & stack-up, engineering calculations, complete system / component sizing, modeling and simulation, solid analytical skills - understanding mechanical stresses, fatigue life, part fits.

- Drive growth in respective team in terms of breadth and depth of capabilities in electrical and mechanical design as well as adjacent technology areas in product engineering.

- Proven track record of demonstrating competencies to manage a large and diverse team.

- Sound knowledge & demonstrated experience of complete product development life cycle on multiple projects including requirements, design, development, verification & validation, qualification & certification.

- Experience working with connected lighting products involving electronics hardware, sensors & sensing technologies, wired & wireless communication protocols, IOT & Cloud connectivity.

- Well verse with engineering cost out processes & tools.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

📌 Manager - Indoor Specification (Pune)
🏢 Signify
📍 Pune