Lead Engineer - Industrialisation

What you'll do:

The Lead Engineer - Industrialisation is responsible for leading manufacturing process industrialisation and quality integration to ensure products and processes are safe, capable, repeatable, and production-ready. This role provides technical and people leadership across Manufacturing Engineering and Quality, ensuring robust process design, validation, and standardization from engineering release through sustained production.

• Lead industrialisation of manufacturing processes, production lines, tooling, and workstations.
• Define and approve manufacturing routings, standard work, work instructions, layouts, and tooling concepts.
• Drive DFMA, line balancing, capacity analysis, and process simplification initiatives.
• Ensure alignment of EBOM, MBOM, and SBOM.
• Support production ramp-ups, engineering changes, and process stabilization.
• Ensure compliance with Quality Management Systems and customer requirements.
• Lead PFMEA, Control Plans, capability studies, and process validation.
• Address process-related non-conformances, scrap, and rework.
• Embed error-proofing, standard work, and visual management.
• Drive structured problem solving using A3 and 8D.
• Lead and develop Manufacturing / Industrialisation Engineers.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices.
• Promote a culture of quality ownership and continuous improvement

Qualifications:

Requirement:

• Masters / Bachelors in manufacturing, industrial, mechanical or electrical engineering
• Minimum 12+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment; 5+ years of Industrialisation experience would be preferred

Skills:

• Candidates having valid US Visa(B1/B2) will be an added advantage
• Demonstrated expertise in DFMA to drive manufacturability, cost efficiency, and robust process design
• Strong experience in PFMEA and risk-based process planning to ensure high-reliability manufacturing
• Proven ability to optimize production flow through advanced line-balancing and capacity analysis
• Solid understanding of Quality Management Systems with hands-on experience ensuring compliance in manufacturing environments
• Strong capability in structured problem solving using A3 and 8D methodologies to drive continuous improvement
• Team player, ability to get things done through teams effectively
• Managerial courage - doesn't hold back that needs to be said; provides positive & corrective feedback
• Decision quality - makes good decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment
• Business acumen - knows how business work; knowledgeable in current and possible future technologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Position requires 40% travel ( both domestic & International )

Client-provided location(s): Pune, India

Job ID: Eaton-61328Pune

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-03-22T18:37:08