Lead VAVE Engineer

Job description

Job Description • Must have: Proven experience in leading end-to-end Supplier Change and Life Cycle Management (LCM) projects, collaborating with global teams to ensure successful execution, qualification, and implementation. • As Mechanical Engineer III you will lead, design and qualify products which are globally manufactured and help to reduce the cost, drive design standardization across sites. • Drive product cost analysis, benchmarking, Value analysis & value engineering independently. • Perform VAVE study and identify cost out opportunities which are quality neutral • Strong design knowledge and exposure towards global qualification standards • Ensures that assigned projects are delivered timely, to specification, and at or below targeted cost through solid engineering plans, including quality, cost, schedule, and risk assessment. • Approaches problems in a rational manner and with outstanding tools to ensure comprehensive understanding and effective resolution. • Helps team to grow technical depth and build proficiency across product lines. • Promotes an environment of learning, coordinates technical training, addresses and fills technical gaps, and helps to buildup technical pipeline. • Efficiently collaborates with sourcing, operations, quality, service and global R&D team, as well as external suppliers, vendors and customers. Skills and Proficiencies: • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering • VAVE certified & PMP certified (Good to have) • 8+ years overall experience with Having strong record of driving strategic Cost out / VAVE deliveries. Experience in product VAVE project execution. • Proficient in Product Cost analysis, Teardown, Competitive benchmarking, Value Analysis and Value Engineering. • Handled End-to-End cost out/VAVE projects (Scoping to Implementation). • Awareness of regulatory requirements, certification, and engineering standards • Excellent interpersonal, and critical thinking skills • Ability to influence stakeholders.