Design Engineer

Role & responsibilities

1. Department Leadership & People Management:

• Head the Design & Drafting department; plan, allocate, and prioritize design workload across design engineers and draughtsmen against project milestones.

• Set and govern design standards, design-review gates, calculation methods, and drawing/release quality checkpoints.

• Own design throughput and on-time release of layouts, manufacturing drawings, and BOMs to Purchase and Projects.

• Mentor and develop the team; build competency matrices, conduct design reviews, and drive continuous skill upgrades.

• Build and maintain a design library, standard-component catalogue, and reusable templates to cut design lead time and improve consistency.

2. Pre-Sales & Solution Engineering:

• Act as the senior technical authority supporting Sales and Business Development during customer engagements, RFQ feasibility, and solution definition.

• Translate customer requirements into clear, validated technical specifications and concept layouts for automation and robotics solutions.

• Develop conceptual designs for robotic cells, automated assembly lines, material-handling systems, SPMs, leak/functional testers, and welding stations.

• Perform and review cycle-time studies, throughput and OEE calculations, and feasibility/risk assessments before commitment.

• Approve Bills of Materials (BOMs) and provide accurate engineering input for costing and proposals.

3. Execution Handover, R&D & Documentation:

• Ensure a clean handover from pre-sales to execution with complete design documentation, calculations, and specifications.

• Drive design-for-manufacture, design-for-assembly, and design-for-cost discipline across all projects.

• Evaluate new technologies, components, and automation platforms; lead internal knowledge-sharing and best practices.

• Support root-cause analysis and design corrective actions on field/quality issues, feeding lessons back into standards.

Preferred candidate profile

• Immediate candidate required.