General Manager - New Product Design & Development - Material Handling Unit

BE/ B.Tech Mechanical /Production/ Industrial with minimum 18 years of experience in New product Design and Development from Material handling business / Construction Equipment / Crane background .

Position : Head of Design

Location- Kolkata

Role Objective:

- Spearheading the overall Design operations

- Strategizes for achievement of immediate and future goals in relation to the his area of function

- Prepares and monitors the budget for the design operations and proper resource allocation

- Organizes manpower, machines, materials and money for most cost-effective functioning

- Ensures that routine functioning as well as change and transition initiatives stay within the framework of set processes

Responsibilities:

Strategic:

- Strategizes for achievement of immediate and future goals of Material Handling unit

- Resource planning and monitoring in order to meet department target as per desired quality

- Carries out cost-benefit analysis for each of the steps mentioned in the plan and modifies the same accordingly, if required

- Brings global perspective on Design operation; analyzes any new idea which comes up and implements them keeping in accordance with business objectives

- Enforces adherence to processes and encourages the quest for continuous improvement

Operational:

- Oversees the design capacity to suit marketing needs

- Monitors technology transfer from external collaborators for introducing new product line

- Guides for proper customization of the new product model as per local customer requirements

- Supervises continuous review process for design parameters

- Reviews design process for its up gradation to align with changing technology

- Evaluates customer feedback reports to implement design improvements for more value addition

- Monitors effective coordination with other manufacturing functions for efficient & cost effective output

- Analyses new concepts of reliability engineering for design validation and defect free design production

- Ensures up gradation of data bank through incorporating global developments to introduce cost effective products

- Ensures overall operations and interfaces as per the requirements of ISO : 9001

- Laser focus on identifying and implementing Value Engineering initiatives on a continuous basis

Financial:

- Prepares budget in line with organization objectives keeping in mind cost rationalization; monitors it regularly for deviations

- Anticipates bottlenecks and takes action in so that the cost of design (including conservation of energy - power, water etc. to minimize cost of utilities) remains within the budget

- Proper resource allocation in terms of manpower, raw materials, inventory planning and monitoring

- Effective cost rationalization by reducing re-work and redo.