, Responsibilities, Authority,

Accountability & KPI

General Manager Design & Engineering

EPP Composites Pvt. Ltd.

1. Position Title General Manager Design & Engineering

2. Reporting To CMD / Director Operations / COO The position will functionally coordinate with:
- Sales & Marketing
- Tendering
- Projects / EPC
- Production
- Quality Assurance / Quality Control
- Purchase
- Costing
- SAP / IT
- R&D; / CEC
- Site Execution Teams

• Customer / Consultant / Design Consultant / Approval Agencies

- Purpose of the Position EPP is appointing a General Manager Design & Engineering to transform the present design function from a schematic drawing-based working system to a complete in-house detailed engineering, fabrication drawing, BOM, design calculation, proposal automation, drawing automation and product engineering system.

At present, the major gaps are:

- EPP prepares schematic / general arrangement drawings but does not consistently prepare complete fabrication drawings.

• Detailed shop-floor manufacturing drawings are not issued in a structured manner.
- Drawings and designs are not submitted to customers / consultants within benchmarked timelines.
- Customer / consultant drawing approvals are not obtained within the desired timelines.
- Production clearance is not issued within required timelines.
- Design review meetings are not conducted, concluded or followed up within desired timelines.
- Proposal preparation, technical offer preparation, drawing preparation, BOM preparation and design calculations are still largely manual and person-dependent.
- Engineering data is not fully digitised, standardised or linked with SAP / ERP.
- Repetitive engineering, drawings and proposals are not automated through standard templates, product configurators or digital libraries.
- Production, dispatch and project execution suffer because of delays in engineering release, drawing approval and design decision-making.
- There is dependency on individuals instead of a system-driven and digitally controlled engineering process.
- Drawing gaps lead to production errors, rework, wrong shop-floor interpretation,

costing mismatch, quality issues and delayed delivery.

The GM Design & Engineering shall be responsible for developing a world-class design and engineering department capable of handling complete design ownership for all EPP products.

The objective is that every product manufactured by EPP should be supported by complete engineering documents, including:

- Design basis
- Design calculations
- General arrangement drawings
- Fabrication drawings
- Shop drawings
- Component drawings
- Manufacturing drawings
- Assembly drawings
- Installation drawings
- Bill of Materials
- Material specifications
- Tolerances
- Inspection requirements
- Customer / consultant approval documents
- Drawing revision records
- Production clearance documents
- Design review meeting records
- Production handover documents
- Site support documents
- As-built drawings wherever applicable
- Automated proposal formats
- Product-wise digital design templates
- Automated drawing templates wherever feasible
- Digital BOM and costing inputs
- Digitised approval and document control system
- Product Scope The GM Design & Engineering shall develop complete in-house engineering capability for all major products and verticals of EPP, including but not limited to:
- GRP / GRE / FRP pipes HFW, CFW, Hoop-chop and related piping systems
- GRP / FRP fittings, specials, bends, tees, reducers, flanges and couplers
- Chemical equipment, tanks, vessels, scrubbers, ducts, stacks and pollution control systems
- FRP / composite tanks and process equipment
- SMC electrical enclosures
- SMC meter boxes and junction boxes
- SMC panel tanks
- Pultruded profiles
- FRP cable trays, ladders, handrails and structural members
- Moulded gratings
- Injection-moulded composite products
- FRP / composite rebars
- FRP poles
- FRP roofing sheets
- FRP / composite manhole covers
- Underground storage tanks / UGST
- Windmill parts
- Mobility / mass transportation composite parts
- Composite parts for renewable energy applications
- EPC / site-related engineering and installation details
- New composite applications developed by EPP / CEC / R&D;
- Key Mission of the Role The GM Design & Engineering shall build a design department that works on global best practices and ensures:

1. No product goes to production only on schematic drawing.
2. Every product has proper detailed fabrication drawings wherever required.
3. Every drawing is supported by design calculation, BOM and manufacturing instructions.
4. Drawings and designs are submitted to customers / consultants within benchmarked timelines.
5. Customer / consultant engineering comments are professionally discussed, resolved and closed within target timelines.
6. Customer / consultant approvals are obtained within desired timelines through proper technical follow-up.
7. Production clearance is issued within internal benchmark timelines.
8. Design review meetings are conducted before production release for all critical orders.
9. Engineering, design, drawing and proposal activities are digitised and automated wherever possible.
10. Repetitive drawings, BOMs, calculations and technical proposals are generated through standard templates, configurators and digital libraries.
11. Design errors, rework and drawing-related production delays are reduced drastically.
12. EPP develops full in-house engineering capability for all major product lines.
13. Design department becomes a technical strength of EPP and not only a drawing support function.
14. Software, systems, design libraries, engineering standards, proposal templates and databases are developed internally.
15. EPPs design function supports faster sales conversion, accurate costing, better quality, better manufacturing productivity and improved customer confidence.
16. All engineering activities are carried out as per defined benchmark timelines.

17. Core Responsibilities A. Design Department Transformation The GM shall completely restructure and upgrade the design department from a drafting-

oriented department to a complete engineering and digital design department.

He shall

- Study the existing design process, manpower, software, drawing quality, approval system and documentation gaps.
- Identify why only schematic drawings are being prepared and why fabrication drawings are not generated.
- Identify reasons for delay in drawing submission, drawing approval, design review meetings and production clearance.
- Identify manual, repetitive and person-dependent engineering activities that can be automated.
- Develop a structured engineering workflow from enquiry stage to final dispatch.
- Define design deliverables for each product category.
- Create a system where GA drawing, fabrication drawing, BOM, cutting list, bought-

out list, assembly drawing, QC points and dispatch drawings are generated as standard practice.
- Build product-wise design checklists and drawing release checklists.
- Introduce maker-checker-approver system for all drawings.
- Ensure all critical drawings are reviewed before release to production.
- Make design department accountable for manufacturability and correctness of drawings.

• Create a culture where drawing quality, engineering discipline, timeline adherence and digital control are non-negotiable. B. Detailed Engineering and Fabrication Drawing Development The GM shall ensure that EPP prepares complete detailed engineering packages, including:
- Design basis report
- Client specification review
- Applicable code and standard compliance
- Design calculations
- General arrangement drawings
- Component-wise fabrication drawings
- Laminate schedule / thickness schedule wherever applicable
- Nozzle orientation drawings
- Support / saddle / bracket drawings
- Manufacturing drawings
- Assembly drawings
- Installation drawings
- Site interface drawings
- Bill of Materials
- Bought-out item list
- Fastener / hardware list
- Cutting list / nesting data wherever applicable
- Tolerance requirements
- Inspection and testing points
- QAP input support
- Packing and handling instructions
- Revision history and document control
- Digital drawing package
- Automated BOM wherever feasible
- Digitised design calculation sheet
- Digitised production clearance checklist

No major order should be released to production without proper fabrication drawing and approved engineering package, except in exceptional cases approved by top management.

C. Customer and Consultant Engineering Finalisation The GM Design & Engineering shall be directly responsible for technical discussion,

clarification and finalisation of engineering with customers, consultants, design consultants,

project consultants, approval agencies, EPC contractors, OEMs and government /

institutional technical teams.

He shall

- Personally participate in important technical meetings with customers and consultants.
- Understand customer specifications, tender requirements, consultant comments and approval expectations.
- Clarify technical deviations, design basis, drawings, calculations, material specifications and manufacturing limitations.
- Finalise General Arrangement drawings, fabrication drawings, design calculations,

technical documents and engineering submissions with customer / consultant.
- Ensure timely submission of drawings and designs to customer / consultant as per benchmark timeline.
- Ensure timely reply to consultant comments and customer observations.
- Maintain proper record of all technical discussions, MOMs, approvals, comments and revisions.
- Ensure that no verbal commitment is made without proper technical and commercial understanding.
- Coordinate with Sales, Projects, Costing, Production and Quality before finalising any technically sensitive commitment.
- Convert customer / consultant comments into controlled engineering revisions through proper drawing revision and ECN system.
- Ensure final approved drawings are clearly communicated to Production, Quality,

Purchase, Projects and Site teams.

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Protect EPPs technical, commercial and contractual interest while finalising engineering with external parties.

- Ensure that customer-approved drawings are received within defined timeline benchmarks.
- Ensure that production is not delayed due to avoidable delay in customer / consultant engineering approval.
- Maintain a customer / consultant approval tracker for all approval-based orders.
- Escalate customer / consultant approval delays in time if they may affect production,

dispatch or project commitment.
- Digitally track all customer / consultant comments, replies, revisions, approvals and pending matters.

D. Production Clearance and Design Review Discipline The GM shall ensure that production clearance is issued only after proper engineering readiness and within the approved internal timeline.

He shall

- Ensure production clearance is issued within benchmark timelines after completion of design, approval and BOM readiness.
- Conduct design review meetings for all orders before production clearance.
- Conduct design review meetings immediately after receipt of approved drawings.
- Ensure design review meetings are attended by Design, Production, Quality,

Planning, Purchase, Costing and Project teams wherever required.
- Ensure all design review meetings are documented through MOM.
- Ensure each design review point has a responsible person, target date and closure status.
- Ensure unresolved technical issues are escalated before they affect production.
- Ensure production does not start based on incomplete drawings, unclear revisions,

unapproved design or verbal instructions.
- Ensure production clearance includes final approved drawing, BOM, manufacturing instruction, inspection points and special customer requirements.
- Maintain production clearance tracker with planned date, actual date, delay reason and responsible person.
- Digitise the production clearance checklist and link it with drawing approval, BOM release and SAP / ERP wherever possible.

E. Engineering, Design, Drawing and Proposal Automation The GM shall be responsible for creating a roadmap for automation of engineering, design,

drawings, BOM and technical proposals.

He shall

- Identify repetitive engineering activities that can be automated.
- Develop product-wise standard design templates.
- Develop standard drawing templates for repeat products.
- Develop parametric drawing models wherever feasible.
- Develop automated BOM generation for standard and repeat products.
- Develop product configurators for selected product families.
- Develop automated design calculation sheets with maker-checker-approver control.
- Develop standard technical proposal formats for each product vertical.
- Develop proposal automation for recurring products and tenders.
- Ensure technical proposals are linked with standard product specifications, drawings,

deviations, BOM and costing inputs.
- Reduce proposal preparation time by using standard libraries and approved templates.
- Ensure the latest approved technical data is used in all proposals.
- Eliminate use of outdated drawings, old data sheets and uncontrolled proposal formats.
- Coordinate with Sales and Costing teams to ensure technical proposal automation supports faster and more accurate offer submission.
- Create a digital technical proposal library containing approved product descriptions,

technical specifications, drawings, testing standards, certificates, deviations,

compliance statements and installation references.

- Ensure automation does not compromise engineering accuracy, customer requirement or commercial safety.

F. Digitisation of Engineering and Drawing System The GM shall lead digitisation of the entire design and engineering function.

He shall establish

- Central digital drawing repository
- Controlled drawing numbering system
- Digital revision control
- Digital drawing approval workflow
- Digital customer / consultant approval tracker
- Digital production clearance tracker
- Digital design review MOM and action tracker
- Digital engineering delay ageing report
- Digital BOM database
- Digital design calculation library
- Product-wise drawing library
- Product-wise proposal library
- Standard technical datasheet library
- Common engineering document management system
- Integration with SAP Rise / ERP wherever feasible
- Access control, backup and document security
- Dashboard for design department performance
- Pending drawing / approval / clearance ageing dashboard
- Alert and escalation system for delayed engineering activities The GM shall ensure that the design department moves from individual file-based working to a centralised, traceable, controlled and digitally monitored engineering system.

G. Product-Wise Engineering Ownership The GM shall develop full design capability for all EPP product verticals.
1. GRP / GRE / FRP Pipes and Fittings

He shall

- Develop design calculations for pressure, stiffness, vacuum, burial depth, surge and external loads.
- Prepare pipe layout drawings, fitting drawings, joint details and installation drawings.
- Develop standard drawings for bends, tees, reducers, flanges, couplers, manholes and specials.
- Support EPC / site teams with laying, jointing, hydrotesting and support details.
- Create product-wise design library for standard diameters, pressure classes and stiffness classes.
- Develop automated pipe / fitting drawing templates wherever feasible.

• Support customer / consultant approval for pipe system engineering.

- Chemical Equipment and Process Equipment He shall:

• Prepare detailed design for tanks, vessels, scrubbers, ducts, chimneys, stacks, hoods, FRP lining and process equipment.
- Develop laminate schedules, nozzle details, manway details, lifting lug details, saddle

/ support drawings and site erection drawings.
- Coordinate with process, production and QC teams for manufacturable and inspectable designs.
- Ensure all critical equipment drawings are supported by design calculations and material specifications.
- Discuss technical comments with customer / consultant and finalise engineering within target timelines.
- Develop standard design calculation templates and drawing libraries for repeat equipment.
- SMC Electrical Enclosures and Panel Tanks

He shall

- Create mould-wise and product-wise design standards.
- Prepare full component drawings, assembly drawings, drilling drawings, hardware details and installation drawings.
- Support sales and government tender teams with product technical documents, PQ drawings and approval documents.
- Develop standardisation to reduce variation and improve production efficiency.
- Support DISCOMs, government departments, consultants, OEMs and approval agencies with technical finalisation.
- Develop automated proposal and technical compliance formats for standard enclosure and panel tank products.
- Pultrusion, Gratings and Structural Products

He shall

- Develop profile drawings, loading tables, support span details, assembly drawings and installation details.
- Create design manuals for cable trays, ladders, handrails, gratings, platforms and other pultruded structures.
- Support new application development with structural calculations and product validation.
- Prepare customer-friendly engineering documents and installation drawings.
- Develop standard proposal formats, load tables and automated datasheets.
- UGST, FRP Rebar, Manhole Covers, Roofing Sheets, Poles and New Products

He shall

- Build design standards, drawings, testing requirements and application documents for each product.
- Coordinate with R&D; / CEC for new product development, product validation and application engineering.
- Develop installation manuals and customer-facing technical literature.
- Support government / consultant approvals with engineering data and technical justification.
- Develop standard digital technical files for each product.
- Windmill, Mobility and Advanced Composite Products

He shall

- Establish contemporary engineering practices for high-precision composite parts.
- Develop CAD models, mould drawings, process drawings, tooling drawings and inspection templates.
- Build capability for simulation, weight optimisation, manufacturability review and customer engineering coordination.
- Ensure design documentation meets the expectations of OEM customers and global clients.
- Create controlled digital engineering records for every advanced composite product.
- Global Best Practices in Design and Engineering The GM shall adopt and implement global best practices, including:
- Design for Manufacturing and Assembly DFM / DFA
- Design for Quality and Inspection
- Stage-gate design review system
- Engineering change management
- Drawing revision control
- 3D CAD modelling wherever required
- Finite Element Analysis / structural analysis for critical products
- Standard product libraries
- Design automation and parametric templates
- Product data management system
- Engineering document control
- Cost-conscious design
- Value engineering
- Design risk analysis
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis FMEA
- Root Cause Analysis for design-related failures
- Lessons-learned database
- Standard drawing numbering system
- Standard tolerances and manufacturing notes
- Product-wise design manuals
- Customer approval tracking
- Consultant comment closure tracking
- As-built drawing system
- Benchmark timelines for engineering deliverables
- Weekly engineering delay ageing review




- Time-bound production clearance system
- Proposal automation system
- Drawing automation system
- Digital engineering dashboard
- SAP / ERP-linked engineering workflow wherever feasible The GM shall ensure that EPPs engineering practices match the expectations of large customers, EPC companies, government departments, consultants, OEMs and export customers.
- Software and Digital Engineering Development The GM shall identify, implement and institutionalise suitable software and digital tools for complete in-house engineering.

He shall evaluate and implement suitable tools for:
- 2D drafting
- 3D modelling
- Product design
- Structural analysis
- Pipe design
- Tank and vessel design
- Laminate design
- Mould and tooling design
- BOM generation
- Drawing revision control
- Engineering document management
- Design library creation
- Proposal automation
- Drawing automation
- Product configurator
- Automated calculation templates
- Automated technical datasheet generation
- Integration with SAP Rise / ERP
- Costing support
- Design automation for repetitive products
- Customer approval tracking
- Consultant comment tracking
- Production clearance tracking
- Design review meeting tracking
- Engineering dashboard and KPI monitoring The GM shall work with the SAP / IT team to ensure that drawings, BOMs, material codes,

revisions, specifications, proposal data and production routings are properly integrated with

SAP Rise wherever feasible.

1. Internal Engineering Facility Development The GM shall develop internal capability so that EPP is not dependent on external parties for routine engineering.

He shall

- Build a competent design team for each product vertical.
- Identify skill gaps in existing design manpower.
- Recruit / train design engineers, draftsmen, product engineers and checking engineers.
- Develop internal design standards and manuals.
- Create a central design library.
- Create product-wise drawing banks.
- Create templates for common products.
- Develop training modules for design engineers and production teams.
- Create a technical knowledge management system.
- Build internal capability for design calculations and product validation.
- Support in-house laboratory / testing / CEC with engineering inputs for product development.
- Build internal capability to handle customer / consultant engineering discussions without overdependence on external consultants.
- Build software-based monitoring for drawing submission, approval status, production clearance and design review closure.

• Build internal automation capability for engineering, drawings, BOMs, calculations and technical proposals.

- Coordination with Sales and Tendering The GM shall support Sales and Tendering teams by providing accurate, fast and standardised technical documents.

Responsibilities include

- Review customer specifications at enquiry stage.
- Identify deviations, risks and missing technical information.
- Prepare technical offers and design inputs for costing.
- Support tender drawings, PQ documents and technical clarifications.
- Support government tenders, DISCOM tenders, EPC tenders and OEM requirements.
- Provide quick but accurate design support for sales conversion.
- Ensure that what is committed to the customer is technically feasible and manufacturable.
- Prevent wrong commitments due to incomplete technical review.
- Attend pre-bid / post-bid technical discussions wherever required.
- Provide technical clarifications to consultants and customers within committed timeline.
- Develop automated proposal formats for standard products.

• Develop technical compliance templates for tenders and repeat customers.

• Maintain a proposal database for product-wise technical offers, datasheets, drawings, standards, certificates and deviations.
- Ensure technical proposals are aligned with design capability, production feasibility and costing assumptions.
- Coordination with Production The GM shall ensure that drawings are easy to manufacture, clear and complete.

He shall

- Conduct design-to-production handover meetings for critical orders.
- Ensure production receives complete fabrication drawings and BOM.
- Resolve shop floor drawing queries quickly.
- Visit production areas regularly to understand practical manufacturing issues.
- Modify design practices based on manufacturing feedback.
- Reduce drawing-related rework and delays.
- Ensure all drawings clearly mention critical dimensions, tolerances, material details and inspection points.
- Ensure design supports productivity, repeatability and quality.
- Ensure no production starts on incomplete or unclear drawings, except under written approval from competent authority.
- Ensure production clearance is issued within defined timeline after engineering readiness.
- Ensure delay in production clearance is reviewed weekly with reason and corrective action.
- Digitally record production clearance and design handover for traceability.
- Coordination with Quality The GM shall ensure that design and quality work together.

He shall

- Provide drawing inputs for QAP.
- Define critical-to-quality dimensions.
- Support inspection formats.
- Review design-related NCRs.
- Participate in customer complaint analysis.
- Modify designs where required to prevent repeated failures.
- Ensure that inspection and testing requirements are clearly mentioned in drawings.
- Maintain design-related corrective and preventive action records.
- Support customer / consultant inspection and technical approval wherever required.
- Digitise quality-related drawing requirements and inspection inputs wherever possible.

1. Coordination with Purchase and Costing The GM shall support Purchase and Costing teams with accurate technical data.

He shall

- Prepare accurate BOMs and bought-out item specifications.
- Standardise materials and components to reduce purchase complexity.
- Support vendor development with drawings and technical specifications.
- Assist in value engineering and cost reduction.
- Ensure design changes are reflected in BOM and costing.
- Prevent cost leakage due to wrong design assumptions or incomplete engineering.
- Ensure technically correct inputs for material procurement.
- Support automated BOM and costing linkage wherever feasible.

• Ensure proposal inputs, design inputs and costing inputs are consistent.

- Engineering Change Management The GM shall introduce a formal Engineering Change Note / Engineering Change Request system. No design change should be made verbally or informally.

The system must cover

- Reason for change
- Drawing revision
- BOM impact
- Cost impact
- Production impact
- Customer approval requirement
- Consultant approval requirement
- Stock impact
- Quality impact
- SAP / ERP update
- Proposal impact
- Design library impact
- Approval authority
- Implementation date

• Communication to all concerned departments

- Design Documentation and Control

The GM shall implement a strong document control system.

He shall ensure

- Unique drawing number for every drawing
- Proper revision history
- Controlled drawing release
- Obsolete drawing withdrawal
- Customer-approved drawing record
- Consultant-approved drawing record
- Internal approved drawing record
- As-built drawing preparation
- Soft copy and hard copy control
- Common server / PDM / PLM storage
- Access control
- Backup and data security
- Complete traceability from enquiry to final approved drawing to production release
- Proposal revision control
- Design calculation revision control
- Digital document approval workflow
- Linkage between drawing, BOM, proposal, costing and production clearance
- Authority The GM Design & Engineering shall have the authority to:

1. Stop release of any order to production if detailed engineering is incomplete.
2. Reject incomplete or technically unclear sales inputs before design starts.
3. Ask Sales / Projects / Customer / Consultant for missing technical information.

4. Approve internal design standards and drawing templates.
5. Approve drawing release after proper internal checking.
6. Define design manpower requirement and recommend recruitment.

7. Recommend required software, hardware and engineering tools.
8. Recommend external consultant support where specialised expertise is required.
9. Initiate design correction or revision where required.

10. Call cross-functional design review meetings.
11. Call technical meetings with customers and consultants wherever required.
12. Escalate unresolved technical risks to top management.

13. Freeze standard designs for repeat products.
14. Approve standardisation of components and materials from engineering point of view.
15. Hold design team members accountable for drawing errors, delays and incomplete documentation.

16. Recommend training and skill development programmes for design manpower.
17. Refuse verbal or informal design changes unless routed through proper ECN / approval system.

18. Escalate customer / consultant approval delays affecting production or dispatch.
19. Withhold production clearance if drawings, BOM, approvals or technical inputs are incomplete.
20. Seek immediate management intervention where drawing approval or production clearance delay may affect delivery commitment.

21. Recommend and implement engineering, design, drawing and proposal automation tools after management approval.
22. Freeze and control standard proposal formats, drawing templates, calculation templates and technical datasheets.

23. Stop use of outdated, uncontrolled or unauthorised proposal / drawing / design formats.
24. Accountability The GM shall be accountable for:
25. Converting EPP from schematic drawing-based working to complete detailed engineering-based working.

26. Ensuring that all major products have complete fabrication drawings before production.
27. Reducing design-related production errors, rework and customer complaints.
28. Building in-house design and engineering capability for all product verticals.

29. Ensuring timely design release as per production and customer requirements.
30. Ensuring correctness of drawings, BOMs, calculations and engineering documents.
31. Ensuring proper revision control and design change management.

32. Ensuring that design supports manufacturability, quality, cost control and delivery.
33. Developing design standards, product libraries and engineering manuals.
34. Ensuring customer-approved drawings are properly maintained and followed.

35. Ensuring consultant comments are replied, resolved and closed within target timelines.
36. Supporting sales conversion through strong technical documentation.
37. Ensuring global best practices are practically implemented in EPP.

38. Reducing dependency on individuals and external design support.
39. Creating a design department that is system-driven, disciplined and scalable.
40. Timely engineering finalisation with customers and consultants.

41. Closure of consultant comments within agreed timelines.
42. Ensuring that customer-approved drawings and documents are available before production release wherever approval is required.

43. Avoiding production delays due to pending customer / consultant engineering approval.
44. Ensuring that all engineering commitments made to customers are technically correct, manufacturable and commercially safe for EPP.

45. Maintaining complete records of customer / consultant approvals, comments, revisions and final engineering documents.

46. Ensuring all design and engineering activities are completed as per approved benchmark timelines.
47. Ensuring measurable performance of the design department through KPI dashboard.

48. Ensuring drawing and design submission is completed within benchmarked timelines.
49. Ensuring production clearance is issued within desired timeline after engineering readiness.
50. Ensuring design review meetings are conducted, documented and closed within target timelines.

51. Ensuring delay reasons are recorded, reviewed and escalated before they affect production, dispatch or site execution.
52. Ensuring engineering, design, drawing, BOM and proposal automation is implemented in a phased manner.

53. Ensuring engineering digitisation reduces manual dependency, errors and delays.
54. Ensuring that automated templates are technically correct, approved and revision- controlled.

55. Ensuring digital data is protected, updated and accessible to authorised users only.
56. Ensuring proposal automation supports faster, accurate and technically safe offer submission.

57. Key Result Areas KRA 1: Complete Detailed Engineering System
- Develop product-wise detailed engineering checklist.
- Ensure all major orders are released with complete design package.
- Eliminate production based only on schematic drawings.
- Implement fabrication drawing system for all relevant products.
- Ensure engineering package is completed within target timeline.

KRA 2: Design Standardisation

- Create standard design library for repeat products.
- Standardise drawings, components, BOMs and technical notes.
- Reduce unnecessary design variation.
- Improve repeatability and manufacturing speed.
- Prepare standard engineering templates.

KRA 3: Customer and Consultant Approval Management
- Discuss engineering with customers and consultants.
- Submit drawings and designs within benchmarked timelines.
- Close technical comments within defined timelines.
- Maintain approval tracker.
- Obtain customer / consultant approvals within desired timeline.
- Ensure final approved drawings are available before production release.

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Ensure EPPs technical and commercial interest is protected.

KRA 4: Production Clearance and Design Review Discipline

- Issue production clearance within internal timeline.
- Conduct design review meetings before production clearance for all orders.

• Maintain MOM and action tracker for design review meetings.
- Ensure unresolved design points are closed before production release.
- Ensure no production delay due to avoidable design clearance issues.

KRA 5: Engineering, Design, Drawing and Proposal Automation
- Develop automation roadmap for engineering, design, drawings, BOMs and proposals.
- Automate repetitive drawing and design work wherever feasible.
- Develop standard proposal templates and digital technical offer formats.
- Develop product configurators for repeat products.
- Develop automated design calculation templates.
- Link proposal, drawing, BOM and costing data.
- Reduce proposal and engineering turnaround time.
- Reduce person dependency in repeated design and proposal work.

KRA 6: Software and Digital Capability
- Identify and implement suitable CAD / CAE / PDM / design automation tools.
- Integrate BOM and drawing data with SAP Rise wherever possible.
- Create digital design database.
- Ensure safe storage, access control and revision control.
- Build engineering dashboard for real-time monitoring.
- Build digital proposal and technical documentation database.

KRA 7: Design Quality and Accuracy
- Reduce drawing mistakes.
- Reduce production rework due to design errors.
- Ensure maker-checker-approver system.
- Conduct design reviews for critical orders.
- Maintain design error analysis and corrective action records.

KRA 8: Timely Design Release
- Release drawings as per agreed timelines.
- Support production planning and dispatch targets.
- Minimise delay caused by drawing unavailability.
- Create timeline benchmarks for enquiry support, drawing release, approval submission, comment closure, BOM release, design review meeting and production handover.

KRA 9: Product Engineering Development
- Develop engineering capability for each EPP product vertical.
- Prepare product design manuals.
- Support new product development and application engineering.
- Support testing, validation and certification requirements.

KRA 10: Cross-Functional Support
- Support Sales, Tendering, Production, Quality, Purchase, Costing and Projects.
- Provide technical support for customer approvals and consultant approvals.
- Resolve design-related issues quickly.
- Ensure all departments work from the same approved drawing and revision.
- Key Performance Indicators

No.

KPI

Target / Measurement

Detailed fabrication drawing coverage

Minimum 80% of major product orders within 6 months;

95% within 12 months

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Orders released only with Reduce to below 20% in 6 months and below 5% in 12

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3

schematic drawings months

Drawing release on-time performance

4 Drawing error rate

Minimum 90% drawings released as per agreed schedule

Less than 2% of released drawings having major errors

Reduce by minimum 50% within 12 months

Design-related production rework

5

Design-related customer complaints

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Reduce by minimum 50% within 12 months

Standard design library creation

Standard drawings for top 50 repeat products within 6

months

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Product-wise engineering manuals

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Minimum 5 major product manuals within 12 months

Minimum 95% BOM accuracy in SAP / costing /

production release

9 BOM accuracy

10 Engineering change control 100% design changes through formal ECN system

Maker-checker-approver

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100% implementation for all critical drawings implementation

Customer approval drawing tracker

12

100% tracking for all approval-based orders

CAD / PDM / drawing control system implemented within approved timeline

13 Software implementation

Design manpower

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Skill matrix and training plan for 100% design team within

3 months development

Internal design dependency Minimum 75% routine engineering handled in-house

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improvement within 12 months

Weekly design review for major orders and monthly design performance review

16 Design review meetings

Production drawing query closure

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90% shop floor queries closed within 24 hours

Annual measurable cost saving target to be fixed jointly with management

18 Value engineering savings

New product engineering Engineering package for all approved new products before

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support commercial production

100% drawings under controlled numbering and revision system

20 Drawing document control

Customer / consultant

21

Minimum 90% comments to be replied / closed within agreed target timeline comment closure

Engineering approval timeline adherence

Minimum 90% engineering approvals to be completed as per committed schedule

22

Pending approval impact on Zero production stoppage due to avoidable delay in design

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25

26

27

28

29

30

31

production

/ consultant approval

Technical meeting documentation

100% important customer / consultant meetings to have

MOM / written record

Final approved drawing availability

100% customer-approved drawings to be available before production release, wherever approval is required

Engineering deviation control

100% deviations to be documented and approved before final customer commitment

Consultant coordination effectiveness

Monthly review of pending consultant comments and overdue engineering approvals

Benchmark timeline adherence

Minimum 90% adherence to approved engineering timeline benchmarks

Design-to-production handover





100% critical orders to have documented design handover to production

As-built drawing completion

100% as-built drawings for applicable project / customised orders

Drawing / design submission timeline

Minimum 90% drawings and designs to be submitted to customer / consultant within benchmarked timeline

Minimum 90% client / consultant approvals to be obtained within desired timeline or escalated with documented reason

Client drawing approval timeline

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Production clearance timeline

Design review meeting discipline

Engineering delay ageing Weekly ageing review of delayed drawings, approvals,

review

Engineering automation roadmap

Proposal automation implementation

Drawing automation implementation

Automated BOM generation

Minimum 95% production clearances to be issued within approved internal timeline after final engineering readiness

100% critical orders to have design review meeting before production clearance

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comments and production clearances

Complete roadmap for design, drawing, BOM and proposal automation within 90 days

Standard proposal templates for minimum 5 major product verticals within 6 months

Automated / parametric drawing templates for top repeat products within 6 to 12 months

Automated or template-based BOM generation for selected repeat products within 6 to 12 months

100% standard drawings and technical documents stored in controlled digital library

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Proposal turnaround time Minimum 30% reduction in technical proposal preparation

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reduction time within 12 months

Manual dependency reduction

Minimum 50% reduction in repetitive manual drawing /

proposal work within 12 months

Digital approval tracker usage

100% approval-based orders to be tracked digitally

100% drawings, proposals, calculations and technical datasheets under revision control

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SAP / ERP integration support

Drawing, BOM and engineering data integration roadmap with SAP Rise within 6 months

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- Suggested Benchmark Timelines for Engineering

Activities The final timelines may be approved by management product-wise, but the GM Design &

Engineering shall establish, implement and strictly follow benchmark timelines for all engineering activities.

Activity

Enquiry technical review

Suggested Benchmark Timeline

Within 24 hours

Technical deviation /

clarification preparation

Within 1 working day

Drawing / design submission to customer /

consultant

As per approved order schedule. Normally within 2 working days for normal drawings and within 7 working days for project / complex drawings after receipt of complete inputs

Customer / consultant comment reply

Within 1 working day

Revised drawing submission after customer / consultant Within 1 to 3 working days depending on complexity comments

Final approval follow-up

Final fabrication drawing

Continuous follow-up with weekly escalation in case of delay after customer / consultant Within 2 working days approval

BOM release after drawing

Within 24 to 48 hours finalisation

Before production clearance for all orders and immediately after receipt of approved drawings

Design review meeting

Production clearance after engineering readiness

Within 24 to 48 hours

Design-to-production handover

Before production start, without exception

Shop-floor drawing query Within 24 hours for routine queries and within 48 hours for resolution complex queries

ECN / ECR processing

Within 2 to 5 working days depending on impact

As-built drawing preparation

Within 7 days from completion / dispatch / site confirmation

Standard technical proposal preparation for repeat products

Within 24 to 48 hours after complete inputs

Technical proposal preparation for project /

customised products

Proposal revision after technical / commercial comments

Within 3 to 7 working days depending on complexity

Within 1 to 3 working days

Updating digital design /

proposal library after revision

Within 24 hours of approval

Automation template creation for repeat products

As per approved automation roadmap

Daily for pending engineering, approvals and production clearance

Digital dashboard update The GM Design & Engineering shall prepare final product-wise benchmark timelines for all major EPP products within the first 90 days and obtain management approval.

The GM shall also ensure that every delayed activity is tracked through an ageing report showing:

- Order number / project name
- Drawing / document number
- Responsible engineer
- Planned date
- Actual completion date
- Delay in days
- Reason for delay
- Internal / customer / consultant dependency
- Escalation status
- Corrective action

No drawing submission, customer approval, revised drawing submission, fabrication drawing release, BOM release, design review meeting, proposal submission, proposal revision,

automation template update or production clearance should remain pending without a responsible person, target date and escalation plan.

- First 90 Days Action Plan

First 30 Days

- Study existing design process and product-wise gaps.
- Identify all products where only schematic drawings are currently used.
- Review design team capability and manpower structure.
- Identify software gaps.
- Prepare product-wise design deliverable matrix.
- Define drawing numbering and revision control system.
- Prepare immediate risk list of products running without proper fabrication drawings.
- Identify all current pending customer / consultant approvals.
- Start customer / consultant approval tracker.
- Start drawing submission delay and production clearance delay ageing report.
- Identify opportunities for design, drawing, BOM and proposal automation.
- Identify repetitive technical proposals and drawings that can be standardised.

31 to 60 Days
- Implement maker-checker-approver system.
- Start fabrication drawing preparation for high-volume and high-risk products.
- Create standard templates for GA drawings, fabrication drawings and BOM.
- Start design review meetings with production and quality.
- Prepare software and manpower requirement proposal.
- Start central drawing library development.
- Introduce formal drawing release system.
- Define preliminary benchmark timelines for engineering deliverables.
- Start formal customer / consultant comment closure process.
- Start production clearance tracker.
- Start weekly delayed drawing / approval / clearance review.
- Start preparation of standard technical proposal templates.
- Start creation of digital proposal library and technical datasheet library.

61 to 90 Days
- Release first set of standard product drawing libraries.
- Implement ECN / ECR system.
- Finalise software implementation roadmap.
- Create KPI dashboard for design department.
- Start product-wise design manuals.
- Train design and production teams on new drawing system.
- Present full design transformation roadmap to management.
- Finalise and approve product-wise engineering timeline benchmarks.
- Implement customer / consultant approval review mechanism.
- Implement design review meeting discipline before production clearance.
- Present engineering, design, drawing, BOM and proposal automation roadmap to management.
- Finalise priority products for automation and digitisation.

1. 12-Month Transformation Roadmap Month 1 to 3: Stabilisation
- Gap analysis
- Drawing control system
- Design team restructuring
- Basic fabrication drawing system
- Immediate high-risk product correction
- Customer / consultant approval tracker
- Production clearance tracker
- Design review meeting discipline
- Benchmark timeline definition
- Automation opportunity mapping
- Digital proposal library planning

Month 4 to 6: Standardisation
- Standard design library
- Product-wise templates
- BOM standardisation
- Design review process
- ECN implementation
- Software selection
- Consultant comment closure discipline
- Drawing release timeline discipline
- Production clearance discipline
- Standard proposal templates for major products
- Digital technical datasheet library
- Standard drawing and calculation templates

Month 7 to 9: Digitalisation
- CAD / CAE / PDM implementation
- SAP integration planning
- Design automation for repeat products
- Product data management system
- Digital approval tracker
- Digital production clearance tracker
- Design KPI dashboard
- Proposal automation system
- Digital engineering document control system
- Automated BOM templates for selected products

Month 10 to 12: Excellence
- Product design manuals
- Advanced calculations

• Full fabrication drawing culture

• Reduced rework and design errors
- Global best practice benchmarking
- Fully measurable design KPI dashboard
- Complete time-bound engineering process from enquiry to production release
- Strong customer / consultant engineering finalisation capability
- Strong design review and production clearance discipline
- Established engineering, design, drawing and proposal automation system
- Digitally controlled engineering and proposal workflow
- Required Qualification and Experience The candidate should preferably have:
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering / Production Engineering / Design Engineering or equivalent.
- 15 to 25 years of experience in design, engineering, fabrication drawing, product engineering or manufacturing engineering.
- Strong experience in detailed engineering, fabrication drawings and manufacturing drawings.
- Experience in composite products, FRP / GRP / GRE, tanks, piping, process equipment, SMC products, structural products or similar manufacturing industry will be preferred.
- Good knowledge of CAD software, 3D modelling, BOM systems and engineering documentation.
- Exposure to design calculations, manufacturing processes and quality systems.
- Experience in handling customer / consultant engineering approvals.
- Experience in building or leading a design department.
- Experience in design automation, drawing automation, proposal automation, PDM /

PLM or engineering digitisation will be preferred.

- Ability to coordinate with production, sales, quality, purchase, projects and customers.
- Strong leadership, discipline, system orientation and problem-solving ability.
- Key Competencies Required
- Strong engineering fundamentals
- Detailed design mindset
- Ability to convert concept into manufacturing drawings
- Knowledge of fabrication and shop floor requirements
- CAD / CAE / digital engineering knowledge
- Product standardisation ability
- Design review and checking discipline
- Cost-conscious design approach
- Cross-functional coordination
- Customer / consultant technical discussion capability
- Team building and training capability
- Documentation discipline
- Customer and consultant handling ability
- Problem-solving and root cause analysis
- Ability to implement systems, not only prepare drawings
- Ability to work with defined timelines and measurable targets
- Ability to protect company interest while finalising engineering externally
- Ability to drive production clearance and engineering approval discipline
- Ability to automate repetitive engineering activities
- Ability to digitise design, drawing, BOM and proposal workflows
- Ability to build and maintain standard engineering and proposal libraries
- Expected Behavioural Qualities The GM Design & Engineering should be:
- Technically strong
- Detail-oriented
- System-driven
- Disciplined in documentation
- Practical and manufacturing-oriented
- Firm on drawing quality and process compliance
- Capable of mentoring engineers
- Capable of challenging incomplete inputs
- Capable of confidently discussing engineering with customers and consultants
- Committed to long-term capability building
- Able to work under time pressure without compromising engineering quality

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Able to bring global best practices but adapt them practically to EPPs working environment

- Strong in follow-up and timeline adherence
- Commercially aware while making technical commitments
- Proactive in escalation before delay affects production or dispatch
- Firm in ensuring design review and production clearance discipline
- Digitally oriented
- Automation-focused
- Willing to replace person-dependent working with system-driven working
- Revised Success Definition The GM Design & Engineering shall be considered successful when EPP achieves the following:

1. EPP stops depending only on schematic drawings for production.
2. Complete fabrication drawings become standard practice.
3. All major products have design calculations, BOMs and manufacturing drawings.
4. Production errors due to drawing gaps reduce significantly.
5. Design department becomes a strong technical backbone for Sales, Production, Quality, Purchase, Costing and Projects.

6. EPP develops in-house capability for complete engineering of each product.
7. Design data, drawings, BOMs and revisions are properly controlled.
8. EPP becomes capable of presenting itself to large customers, consultants, government departments, EPC companies, OEMs and export customers as a professionally engineered global composite manufacturing company.
9. Customer and consultant engineering discussions are handled professionally, technically and commercially in EPPs interest.

10. Engineering comments, approvals, revisions and final drawings are closed within the agreed target timelines.
11. All design and engineering activities are completed as per defined benchmark timelines for enquiry support, drawing preparation, customer approval, consultant comment closure, fabrication drawing release, BOM release and production handover.

12. Drawing and design submissions to customers / consultants are completed within benchmarked timelines.
13. Customer / consultant approvals are obtained within desired timelines or escalated with documented reasons.

14. Production clearance is issued within approved internal timelines after final engineering readiness.
15. Design review meetings are conducted, documented and closed within desired timelines.

16. No major production, dispatch or site execution delay occurs due to avoidable delay in engineering, drawing release, consultant approval, design review meeting or production clearance.
17. The design department works with clear timelines, measurable performance,

ownership and accountability.

18. EPP achieves a disciplined engineering culture where every product moves from enquiry to approval to manufacturing through a controlled, time-bound and benchmark-driven process.
19. The GM establishes a complete internal engineering facility, software system and trained team to support every product vertical of EPP.

20. Engineering, design, drawing, BOM and proposal automation are implemented for repeat and standard products.
21. Technical proposal preparation becomes faster, standardised, accurate and digitally controlled.

22. The design department becomes a competitive advantage for EPP in customer confidence, consultant approval, production accuracy, cost control, delivery performance and global positioning.

23. Management Expectation The GM Design & Engineering is expected to create a design culture where engineering discipline, timeline adherence, customer approval, production clearance, design review meetings, proposal automation and engineering digitisation are treated as critical business commitments.

At present, one of the main problem areas in EPP is that:

- Drawings and designs are not submitted within benchmarked timelines.
- Customer / consultant drawing approvals are not obtained within the desired timeline.
- Production clearance is not issued within the required timeline.
- Design review meetings are not conducted or concluded within the desired timeline.
- Technical proposals, drawings, BOMs and calculations are not sufficiently automated.
- Proposal preparation and engineering submissions are dependent on individuals and manual working.
- Production, dispatch and project execution suffer due to delay in engineering release,

drawing approval and design decision-making.

The GM Design & Engineering shall be specifically responsible to correct these gaps and ensure that the design department becomes a time-bound, accountable, digitised,

automated and execution-supporting department.

The management expects the GM Design & Engineering to ensure that:

1. Engineering is complete before production starts.
2. Drawings are submitted to customers / consultants within approved benchmark timelines.
3. Customer / consultant comments are replied to within defined target timelines.
4. Customer / consultant approvals are obtained within the desired timeline through active follow-up, technical discussion and escalation wherever required.
5. No drawing remains pending without ownership, follow-up and target closure date.
6. Production clearance is issued within the committed timeline after receipt of required inputs and approvals.
7. Design review meetings are conducted regularly and concluded with clear decisions, responsibilities and target dates.

8. All design review meeting points are documented through MOM and tracked until closure.
9. Production should not suffer due to avoidable delay in drawing release, design clarification, BOM release, engineering approval or production clearance.

10. Drawings are clear enough for the shop floor to manufacture without assumptions.
11. BOM is accurate enough for purchase, costing and SAP.
12. Every design has ownership.
13. Every revision is controlled.

14. Every product has a standard.
15. Every mistake is analysed and prevented from repeating.
16. Every customer / consultant comment is tracked and closed.
17. Every approval is completed within target timeline.

18. Every activity is measured against benchmark timelines.
19. Design delay, approval delay and production-clearance delay are reviewed weekly with ageing analysis.
20. Delay reasons are recorded clearly as internal delay, customer delay, consultant delay,

information delay, commercial delay or management decision delay.

21. Escalation must be made in time if any customer / consultant approval or internal design decision is likely to affect production, dispatch or project commitment.
22. The design department must work as a proactive department, not as a reactive drafting department.

23. Repetitive engineering, design, drawing, BOM and proposal work must be automated wherever feasible.
24. Standard proposal formats, drawing templates, calculation templates and technical datasheets must be digitised and controlled.

25. Engineering and proposal data must be stored in a central digital system with proper access control and revision control.
26. Proposal automation must reduce turnaround time and improve technical accuracy.

27. Design automation must reduce errors, rework, duplication and dependency on individuals.
28. Digitisation must create transparency in pending drawings, pending approvals, production clearance and engineering delays.

29. Design must become a competitive advantage for EPP in customer confidence, consultant approval, production accuracy, cost control, delivery performance and global positioning.

The GM Design & Engineering must establish a system where every order moves through a controlled engineering cycle:

Customer Input / Order Requirement Technical Review Automated /

Standardised Proposal Support GA Drawing Customer / Consultant Submission

Comment Closure Final Approval Detailed Fabrication Drawing BOM

Release Design Review Meeting Production Clearance Production Handover

As-Built Drawing / Final Engineering Record

Each stage must have a defined owner, target date, actual completion date, delay reason,

digital record and escalation mechanism.

This position is not only a departmental role. It is a strategic transformation role for EPPs future growth, quality, productivity, customer confidence, consultant approval, proposal accuracy, engineering digitisation, production clearance discipline, delivery reliability and global positioning.

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