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. **Roles and Responsibilities** Under general supervision, responsible for designing new products and processes and improving and maintaining existing products. May execute less complex projects. May conduct design analysis on components and/or assemblies to assist in the development process by ensuring designs are cost efficient, manufacturable, and reliable. Communicates with the other engineering personnel to coordinate the interrelated design and assure project completion. Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering.