LEAD ENGINEER – R&D
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Description
The Lead Engineer will be working in the Research and Development department. The role entails working with multi-disciplinary contributors spanning the engineering, commercial, sales and operations functions to develop new products to the point of manufacture. Controlling the project schedule, ensuring stage-gate deliverables are met in a timely manner and communicating project status to senior management will be key requirements. The ability to build relationships with key stakeholders whilst challenging existing assumptions and ways of working will be key skills in delivering this role.
Accountabilities

• Coordinate and communicate project status between teams to ensure efficiency; resolve conflicts and lead solutions.
• Take an active, hands-on role to support the identification and resolution of engineering problems.
• Identify interdependencies between functions and facilitate cooperative working.
• Develop and control the project schedule within Microsoft Project.
• Challenge concepts in order to achieve the optimum design within the boundaries of time, specification and cost.
• Ensure the team use established development processes, good engineering practice and discipline to deliver a fully resolved solution to the correct standards.
• Support resource allocation activities against current time plans.
• Ability to use your project management skills in innovative ways and be flexible as this role develops in R&D.

• Hold aBachelors degree (design, engineering or project management preferred) or equivalent.
• Previous design experience in related industry shall be an added advantage.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, including Microsoft Project.

• Outstanding project management capabilities (i.e. estimating and planning, risk management, status reporting, budget tracking, benefits analysis, stakeholder management and communication, resource management)
• Strong communicator; ability to listen, and convey complex issues concisely and accurately.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to build productive working relationships and influence others.
• Excellent analytical skills; the ability to assess problems thoroughly and drive logical conclusions 
• Energy, enthusiasm, curiosity, common sense and no embarrassment in asking supposedly “silly” questions.
• Confident; comfortable with interacting with senior executives without being tempted to dilute unpleasant news or well-reasoned analysis.
• Assertive; readiness to challenge teams to take remedial action when required.
• Credible; ability to demonstrate a good level of understanding of engineering processes in order to work with design teams throughout the project development cycle.
• Shrewd: The ability to multi-task and plan effectively when working with a variety of project teams in a fast-paced and often high-pressure, competitive environment.