: Assistant Manager – Design

Company: Virginia Transformer India

Department: Engineering – Design

Location: Vadodara, Gujarat

Experience: 8+ Years

Time: - 11AM to 8:30 PM, Including 30 Hours Lunch/Dinner Break

Industry Preference: Power Transformers / Electrical Equipment / Heavy Engineering

About Virginia Transformer

Virginia Transformer is a leading power transformer manufacturer serving critical infrastructure and global energy markets. We focus on engineering excellence, quality, innovation, and delivering reliable transformer solutions to customers worldwide.

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced Assistant Manager – Engineering with strong team leadership and people management capabilities to lead and coordinate engineering design activities.

The primary focus of this role is to lead the engineering team, manage workload and priorities, drive timely project execution, develop team capabilities, and ensure quality and accuracy in design deliverables.

The ideal candidate should have proven experience in handling engineering teams, coordinating with cross-functional departments, resolving technical challenges, and delivering results in a manufacturing or engineering environment.

Key Responsibilities

1. Team Leadership and People Management

- Lead, manage, and mentor a team of Mechanical, Electrical, and Control Design Engineers.
- Allocate work based on team capabilities, project priorities, and delivery timelines.
- Monitor individual and team performance, productivity, and deliverables.
- Conduct regular team reviews, provide constructive feedback, and support professional development.
- Identify skill gaps and organize technical training and knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Build a collaborative, accountable, and performance-driven team culture.
- Support recruitment, onboarding,



and development of engineering talent as required.

2. Engineering Design and Project Execution

- Oversee day-to-day engineering design activities and ensure timely completion of assigned projects.
- Review design outputs, drawings, calculations, BOMs, and technical documentation as applicable to the function.
- Ensure adherence to engineering standards, quality requirements, and internal procedures.
- Identify bottlenecks, resolve design-related issues, and implement corrective actions.
- Balance team capacity and project requirements to achieve agreed delivery commitments.

3. Cross-Functional Coordination

- Coordinate with Production, Quality, Procurement, Project Management, and other relevant departments.
- Work closely with senior management and stakeholders to review project progress and resolve escalations.
- Ensure smooth communication between engineering and manufacturing teams.
- Track pending activities, address dependencies, and communicate risks that may affect delivery.

4. Process Improvement and Performance Monitoring

- Establish clear team goals, performance indicators, and delivery priorities.
- Monitor turnaround time, design quality, rework, productivity, and adherence to project schedules.
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering processes, resource utilization, and team efficiency.
- Promote standardization, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Prepare periodic reports on team performance, project status,



and resource requirements.

Required Qualifications and Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a relevant engineering discipline, depending on the function.
- Minimum 8 years of relevant engineering experience, including substantial experience in team handling.
- Proven experience leading, mentoring, and managing an engineering team.
- Robust planning, workload allocation, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience managing deadlines, performance expectations, and cross-functional deliverables.
- Good communication, decision-making, and conflict-resolution capabilities.

Key Competencies

- Team leadership and people development
- Performance and delivery management
- Resource planning and workload distribution
- Technical review and decision-making
- Stakeholder and cross-functional coordination
- Process improvement and quality orientation
- Accountability and execution excellence

Success Measures

- Timely completion of engineering deliverables.
- Improved team productivity and resource utilization.
- Reduction in design errors, rework, and avoidable delays.
- Effective team development, engagement, and performance.
- Consistent adherence to engineering quality standards and project commitments.

What We Offer

- An opportunity to lead and develop an engineering team.
- Exposure to complex power transformer engineering projects.
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams in a global engineering organization.
- Opportunities to contribute to process improvements and engineering excellence.

Application: Interested candidates may share their updated CV, including details of team size handled, engineering domain, relevant experience, and current notice period.

📌 Assistant Design Manager (Vadodara)
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