Responsibilities

- Own capex architecture and investment planning activities across customer bid opportunities, ensuring solutions are technically and commercially optimized.

- Lead the assigned bid workstream, integrate subject matter expert inputs, and present recommendations during management review and approval gates.

- Develop bottom-up should-cost models for equipment, tooling, automation, manufacturing infrastructure, and supporting capital investments.

- Perform scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and investment trade-off studies to support strategic bid decisions.

- Conduct make-versus-buy evaluations, including technical, operational, and financial assessments supported by NPV, IRR, and payback analysis.

- Review and approve the technical basis of estimate prior to submission into proposal costing and bid management processes.

- Review RFQs, customer specifications, drawings, BOMs, standards, and technical data packages to identify gaps, risks, assumptions, and clarification requirements.

- Develop structured customer clarification lists and convert incomplete RFQ inputs into explicit assumptions, dependencies, exclusions, and closure actions.

- Define workstream solutions, basis of estimates, implementation approaches, assumptions, risks, mitigation plans, and technical dependencies.

- Develop estimates for quantities, cycle times, resource loading, equipment and tooling requirements, NRE, capex, lead times, and implementation milestones.

- Assess equipment sourcing strategies and evaluate lead-time exposure for both standard and custom-built manufacturing equipment.

Technical Expertise

- Capital expenditure planning, equipment investment strategy, and manufacturing infrastructure cost modeling.

- Development of bottom-up should-cost models for manufacturing equipment, automation systems, tooling, fixtures, and production assets.

- Financial evaluation techniques including NPV analysis, IRR calculations, payback analysis, return-on-investment assessment,



and business case development.

- Scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, investment trade studies, and make-versus-buy decision frameworks.

- RFQ decomposition, requirements analysis, compliance matrix development, and requirements traceability management.

- Bid strategy development, proposal governance, solution storytelling, executive presentations, and customer clarification management.

- Integrated planning, RAID management, risk assessment, change management, and configuration control.

- Commercial evaluation of cost structures, schedules, contractual obligations, lead-time risks, and investment decisions.

- Equipment sizing, manufacturing capacity planning, resource loading analysis, cycle-time calculations, and implementation scheduling.

- Supplier evaluation, quotation analysis, sourcing strategy development, and technical-commercial recommendation preparation.

- Experience with ERP systems, PLM platforms, BOM management, document repositories, and controlled bid content environments.

- Robust analytical, financial modeling, structured problem-solving, and evidence-based decision-making capabilities.

- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and customer presentation skills.

- Proven capability to lead multidisciplinary teams across engineering, operations, quality, sourcing, finance, supply chain, and supplier organizations.

- Strong ownership mindset, attention to detail, and ability to consistently deliver high-quality outputs against fixed bid deadlines.

Qualifications Experience

- B.E./B.Tech in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

- MBA or Postgraduate qualification in Operations Management, Finance, or a related discipline preferred.

- 10-15 years of relevant experience in costing, capital expenditure planning, bid management, manufacturing industrialization, NPI, engineering, or related functions within EMS or complex manufacturing environments.

📌 Costing Lead - Capex (Narasipura)
🏢 Tata Electronics (TEPL)
📍 Narasipura