Specialist - Industrialization

Aligning with "Digital technology enablement" tenet of Operating for growth & "Manufacturing excellence" imperative as defined by the company, this Specialist role drives operational excellence and sustainable growth by leveraging digitalization, robust manufacturing practices, and continuous process optimization. The role is responsible for flawless industrialization, stabilization, and scale-up of production for new and existing products within the Mobility business, including transmissions, clutches, powertrain, engine air management, inverters, and power distribution & protection solutions. The Specialist engineer leads shop-floor execution for line setup, validation, and stabilization (PTR/PPAP), ensuring robust launches and consistent manufacturing performance.

The candidate must have a strong foundation in manufacturing process optimization and digital transformation. This role partners closely with Design, Manufacturing, and IT teams to deploy and scale digital manufacturing capabilities such as digitized manufacturing design and planning, MES, and automation. Acting as a technical bridge between factories, operations, and technology teams, the Specialist Engineer translates business needs into practical, adoptable solutions, supports ROI-driven investment decisions, and contributes to defined digital roadmaps. Moreover, the role leads to the reindustrialization of existing plants by modernizing equipment, optimizing layouts and material flow, and establishing governance models that enable standardized, scalable adoption across the enterprise.

• Take responsibility for managing the definition, development, and delivery of manufacturing systems products, ensuring alignment with customer requirements
• Contribute to the formation of the Manufacturing Tech Stack strategy through specialist expertise and insights into business needs.
• Champion an innovation stream within the innovation road map, ensuring the right skill set/talent are in place to execute on the strategy.
• Contribute to the development of annual and longer-term business plans, forecast performance against key business performance indicators (KPIs), develop business cases for key activities/projects, and estimate the financial and human resources required to deliver performance targets.
• Identify and manage stakeholders including management level, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and react to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.
• Ensure robust production layouts, and manufacturing processes enabling 'Product design to Manufacturing readiness' ensuring cost-competitiveness, and industrialization-readiness with emphasis on Design for Manufacturing & Assembly (DFMA) and factory simulation-driven decisions

Qualifications:

• B.E./B.Tech or M.E./M.Tech degree in Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering. Advanced education/certification in Digital Transformation will be added advantage.
• Experience: 12+ Years
• Lead DFMA assessments for new and transferred products, covering: Process feasibility (casting, forging, machining, welding, assembly).
• Assembly sequence, tooling concepts, ergonomics, and standard work. PFMEA/PFMA alignment and risk mitigation. Influence product and process design decisions to reduce complexity, variation, and cost.
• Develop / review factory simulations including line balancing and throughput analysis, Capacity and resource utilization, Layout evaluation and material flow
• Analyze and validate manufacturing cost models, including machine utilization, cycle time, yield, scrap, Capex/tooling trade-offs. Partner with finance, sourcing & operations to deliver manufacturing cost models

Skills:

• Industrialization: Process design, tooling/fixture/test system development, equipment procurement-to-run-off, PTR/PPAP execution, cost model validation.
• Plant Integration & Digital Systems: Layout integration, MES/Historian/SCADA dashboards, traceability & recipe/version control, ERP hooks, quality data and SPC.
• Reindustrialization: Simulation (discrete event etc.), VSM/MTM/MOST, changeover reduction, buffer sizing, capability improvement, equipment retrofit, PM/PHM, downtime analytics.
• Materials & Planning: BOM/MBOM hygiene, routing standards, PoU completeness, Kanban/lean logistics, DOH guardrails via ERP/SIOP coupling.
• Quality & MSA: Measurement system analysis, capability studies (Cp/Cpk/Pp/Ppk), digital inspection, calibration governance.
• CI & Hi5: Visual factory, A3/DMAIC/DFSS, quantified improvements in CONC/OTD/DOH/Flex/TRCR.

• Values differences: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
• Business insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals.
• Strategic mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Customer focus: Builds strong customer relationships and anticipates/delivers customer centric solutions
• Ensures accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments. Passionate to bring own ideas to applications
• Cultivate innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Process management: Skilled in planning and budgeting and has established project management skills to handle multiple projects.
• Communicates effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Client-provided location(s): Pune, India

Job ID: Eaton-61077Hadapsar

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-03-21T18:46:09