Mechanical Team Lead

Role & responsibilities

• Lead the mechanical engineering team for product development, product care, and mechanical design activities.
• Define mechanical concepts, system architecture, design guidelines, and engineering best practices.
• Review and approve critical mechanical designs, drawings, tolerance analyses, material selections, and technical solutions.
• Drive Design for Manufacturability, Design for Assembly, cost optimization, and value engineering initiatives.
• Lead design reviews, technical decision-making, engineering risk assessments, FMEA, and structured problem-solving activities.
• Manage project priorities, resource allocation, technical planning, and engineering deliverables across multiple projects.
• Collaborate with global R&D teams, manufacturing, quality, suppliers, and product management to ensure alignment on technical solutions.
• Drive product industrialization from R&D to production, including supplier reviews, tooling reviews, and manufacturability improvements.
• Establish and maintain team skill matrices, competency development plans, technical training plans, and succession planning.
• Coach and mentor engineers to improve technical depth, ownership, problem-solving ability, and independent decision-making.
• Ensure effective use of Windchill, ALM, Jira, Creo, and engineering documentation processes.
• Maintain engineering data integrity, traceability, and compliance with internal design standards and quality requirements.
• Promote innovation, continuous improvement, Lean Engineering practices, and adoption of new materials and manufacturing technologies.
• Support department-level initiatives and organizational development activities as required.
• Support in Department Tasks as and when required within the team.

Preferred candidate profile

• B.E./B.Tech/M.E/M.Tech in Mechanical engineering.
• Professional experience in mechanical product development, preferably in analytical instruments, laboratory equipment, automation systems, precision engineering, medical devices, or similar product-based industries.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in technical leadership, team leadership, or engineering management.
• Strong experience in mechanical system design, injection moulding, sheet metal design, machined components, castings, forgings, and assembly design.
• Strong understanding of design verification, validation, manufacturability, supplier interaction, tooling, tolerance analysis, and product industrialization.
• Ability to lead complex technical discussions with global stakeholders and make data-driven engineering decisions.
• Strong expertise in mechanical product design, system architecture, DFM/DFA, GD&T/ISO-GPS, and tolerance stack-up analysis.
• Proven experience in plastic part design, injection moulding, sheet metal, machined parts, castings, forgings, and material selection.
• Strong knowledge of DFMEA/PFMEA, Root Cause Analysis, 8D/A3 problem solving, NPI, product industrialization, and cost optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Creo Parametric, Windchill PLM, Jira, ALM/requirements management tools, and MS Office.
• Ability to lead technical reviews, design decisions, risk assessments, engineering change management, and issue resolution.
• Strong technical leadership with the ability to guide, mentor, and develop mechanical engineers.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with ability to collaborate with global R&D, manufacturing, quality, product management, and suppliers.