Mechanical Design Manager

Location: Pune

Department: Mechanical

Experience: 4 - 8 years

• Lead the mechanical design of robots and peripheral structures from POC to production and sustaining phases, ensuring alignment with cross-functional engineering groups.
• Exercise strong engineering judgment in selecting design methods, materials, and validation techniques to achieve reliable and manufacturable solutions.
• Plan and conduct internal design reviews, driving clear documentation, risk identification, and closure of actions.
• Review, evaluate, and approve design improvements supported by analysis, test data, and engineering documentation.
• Communicate design requirements to vendors using 3D CAD, 2D drawings, GD&T, and engineering specifications, applying DRM, DFM, DFX, and Six Sigma principles.
• Support development of manufacturing, assembly, integration, and test processes, and troubleshoot issues during prototype and production builds.
• Review and approve detailed technical drawings and manufacturing release packages.
• Own the engineering specification, design, development timeline, validation, and release of components, modules, and assemblies.
• Collaborate with external vendors to develop and scale electro-mechanical components, thermal systems, and prototype builds into production-ready solutions.
• Drive improvements in part quality, cost, manufacturability, and operational efficiency across the product lifecycle.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for mechanical issues in prototypes, production, and field returns.
• Manage and communicate technical decisions, risks, trade-offs, development plans, and ongoing issues to management and stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to independently execute and lead technical responsibilities on large-scale engineering projects, interact with customers, mentor junior engineers, and develop standard work practices.
• Strong experience with manufacturing processes such as stamping, casting, machining, and welding across multiple materials; experience with composites is a plus.
• Proven capability in designing with a wide range of materials while optimizing for cost, weight, durability, strength, and thermal performance.
• Hands-on experience in designing primary structures, mechanisms, tools, jigs, and fixtures.
• Strong working knowledge of solid mechanics, load cases, and failure mechanisms.
• Experience in mass-production component development along with creating engineering documentation such as BOMs, SOPs, release notes, and change records.
• High attention to detail in design development with a practical, hands-on approach to prototyping, testing, and validation.
• Strong knowledge of GD&T and the ability to perform and understand tolerance stack-up analysis.
• Familiarity with Design Thinking principles and their application for innovation, ideation, and concept generation.
• Experience working with reliability teams to conduct FMEAs and to create and execute test plans for design validation.
• Experience collaborating with testing, quality, manufacturing, and supplier teams to successfully bring subsystems and components into production.
• Ability to define correct inputs for FEA simulations and interpret FEA results to guide design decisions.

• Experience working on automotive systems such as interiors, seating, chassis, suspension, steering, and powertrain.
• Knowledge of regulatory and safety standards applicable to industrial machinery and automated systems.
• Certifications or formal training in Design Thinking.
• Demonstrated habit of staying connected with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in mechanical design.
• Patents, publications, or demonstrated contributions to innovation.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical, Automotive, or Aerospace Engineering from a Tier-1 or Tier-2 institution.
• 5–8 years of relevant industry experience covering the full product development cycle.
• Minimum 2 years of technical leadership experience in leading projects.

• Constant learner to become a Subject Matter Expert
• Proven record in start-up environment working with innovations
• Exposure to a high paced working environment
• Ability to conduct detailed procedures in a time-constrained environment