Module Leader - Chassis Components

Role description

**At Tata Technologies, we make product development dreams a reality by designing, engineering, and validating the products of tomorrow for the world’s leading manufacturers. Due to continued growth, we are recruiting for a Module Lead - Chassis Components

role.**

THE ROLE

The Team / Module Leader - Chassis Components (Launch) is responsible for leading the chassis component delivery team through the final development, validation, industrialisation and launch phases, ensuring efficient and controlled delivery into production. The role provides clear direction to the team, prioritises workload, coordinates major issue resolution, reports programme status to our client management and escalates risks or issues where required.Dimension of FunctionEngineering, Research and Development (ER&D) is a grow ing function within Tata Technologies Limited. The Team / Module Leader will lead a dedicated TTL Engineering Team supporting our client and will assume delivery leadership through the final development and industrialisation build phases up to Job 1 + 90. The role is accountable for team coordination, delivery planning, issue management and clear reporting to customer management.Contacts ER&D Core, TTL Engineering Team, client Management, Customer Interfaces, Manufacturing, Quality, Suppliers, STA, Launch Teams and Pr ogramme Teams.

Area of Responsibility

• Lead, coordinate and support the chassis component engineering team through final development , component sign-off, maturation, vehicle launch and industrialisation.

• Prioritise and allocate team workload in line with program me milestones, build requirements, technical risk and available resources.

• Maintain an integrated view of component delivery status, actions, risks, dependencies and resource constraints across the module.

• Lead the resolution of major engineering, quality, sup plier and manufacturing issues, ensuring robust containment, root-cause analysis and permanent corrective action.

• Provide clear, c oncise and evidence-based status reports to our client and TTL management, including progress against plan, key risks, issue recovery and decisions required.

• Escalate significant technical, programme, resource or delivery issues promptly, with defined impact, ownership and recommended recovery actions.

• Ensure DV, PV, sign-off activities, engineering releases and change actions are completed to su pport programme timing.

• Coordinate support for pilot, pre-production and production builds, ensuring correct parts, engineering st atus and issue-response coverage.

• Drive delivery of chassis components to the required time, cost, quality and technical specifica tion.

• Manage engineering changes, programme risks, cross-functional dependencies and supplier interfaces.

• Coach team members, es tablish clear ownership and follow up actions to closure.

• Support launch activities at the customer manufacturing facility and ens ure effective transition into stable production.

• Ensure component maturation is aligned to programme plans and communicate overall module status to the Chassis Launch Leader and client management.

Knowledge / Experience

Essential:

• Degree in a relevant Engineering discipline or equivalent experience.

• Experience leading an engineering team or module within automotive product development, validation, industrialisation or launch.

• Experience delivering suspension, steering, brakes, axles or other chassis components within automotive programmes.

• Proven workload prioritisation, delivery planning and team coordination capability.

• Proven major issue le adership using structured problem-solving and cross-functional working.

• Strong status reporting, presentation, stakeholder managem ent and escalation skills, including communication with senior customer management.

• Knowledge of product development, DV, PV, engi neering release, change management and vehicle launch processes.

• Experience with APQP, PPAP, FMEA and structured problem solving.

• PC literacy: Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel and Word.Preferred:

• Experience within our client programmes.

• Underst anding of our client release, change management, programme reporting and issue-management systems.

• CAD literacy and ability to interrogat e CAD models.

• Experience supporting BEV and/or HEV vehicle launches.

If you are passionate about innovation and want to join a global engineering company, this is the place for you.

Tata Technologies: Engineering a better world.

We thank all applicants for their interest. Applications will be reviewed against the role criteria. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within 10 working days, your application has not been successful; however, your details may be retained for future opportunities.