Team Leadership &

- Capability Development

- Build, lead, and develop a Body Process Simulation team supporting BIW manufacturing engineering activities.

- Define team structure, technical responsibilities, engineering standards, work processes, deliverables, and performance expectations.

- Lead, mentor, and coordinate a multidisciplinary team of engineers, simulation specialists, controls engineers, contractors, and supplier resources.

- Recruit, develop, and retain technical talent in process simulation, robotics, offline programming, virtual commissioning, automation, and digital manufacturing technologies.

- Establish competency frameworks, mentoring programs, training plans, and career development pathways.

- Manage resource planning, project workloads, budgets, supplier support, and delivery performance across multiple manufacturing programs and locations.

- Foster a culture focused on safety, collaboration, innovation, quality, continuous improvement, and standardization.

Process Simulation &

- Digital Manufacturing

- Lead the application of Siemens Process Simulate, Tecnomatix, or similar digital manufacturing tools to validate body shop manufacturing processes prior to equipment installation.

- Establish standard methodologies for:

- Robot reach and accessibility studies

- Collision detection and avoidance

- Cycle time validation

- Tooling and weld gun accessibility validation

- Ergonomic assessments

- Robot path optimization

- Station layout verification

- Ensure simulation activities support manufacturing feasibility reviews, equipment design validation, tooling development, and process planning.

- Develop and maintain simulation models, robot libraries, tooling standards, process libraries, work instructions, and best practices.





- Improve simulation quality, model accuracy, data management practices, and process validation efficiency.

- Identify and communicate manufacturing risks, design concerns, capacity constraints, automation challenges, and process issues early during program development.

Virtual Commissioning

- Develop organizational capability in virtual commissioning technologies and methodologies.

- Lead validation of robot sequences, programmable logic controller (PLC) logic, safety interlocks, equipment interfaces, and automated manufacturing processes in a virtual workplace.

- Define virtual commissioning standards, test procedures, acceptance criteria, and deployment methodologies.

- Collaborate with Controls Engineering, equipment suppliers, and plant teams to ensure an effective transition from virtual to physical commissioning.

- Support issue resolution related to robotics, controls, automation systems, simulation models, commissioning activities, and production support.

Automation &

- Digital Transformation

- Drive automation and digital manufacturing initiatives to improve simulation efficiency, engineering productivity, and manufacturing validation processes.

- Identify opportunities to automate model creation, reporting, data validation, engineering analysis, and repetitive simulation activities.

- Support the adoption of advanced digital tools, data analytics, digital twins, and AI-enabled engineering solutions to improve:

- Engineering productivity

- Manufacturing risk identification

- Root-cause analysis

- Knowledge management

- Decision support

- Partner with Manufacturing IT, Controls Engineering, Product Development, and Data &
- Analytics teams to evaluate and implement scalable digital manufacturing solutions.

📌 Process Engineering Manager (Chennai)
🏢 WhiteSlips Job Management Consultants
📍 Chennai