Manager/Sr. Manager - Engineering

Manager/Sr. Manager - Engineering Modular Building Platforms

Key Focus Areas & Responsibilities

1. Productisation & The "Right to Win"

• Platform Development: Transition from a "Project" mindset to a "Product" mindset. Develop standardised, reusable, modular building systems that win on cost, speed, and quality.
• Value Engineering for Scale: Use First-Principles Thinking to ruthlessly optimise structural costs. Enable the business to win more projects by engineering out waste without compromising safety.
• Factory-First (IC) Strategy: Drive the engineering roadmap to increase the percentage of construction work done in the factory to 99%, minimising on-site skill requirements.

2. Engineering Systems & Excellence

• Automotive-Level Quality: Develop engineering processes that ensure building quality is measured in millimetres, not centimetres. Implement PFMEA (Process Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) into the design phase.
• DFMA Mastery: Oversee the implementation of Design for Manufacturing and Assembly principles to ensure every component "snaps" together seamlessly on-site with zero rework.
• BIM-to-Factory Pipeline: Establish a robust digital thread using BIM and ISO 19650 standards to automate the flow from design to the fabrication shop floor.

3. Leadership & Innovation

• Mentorship & Growth: Manage and mentor a multidisciplinary team. Foster a culture of high agency where "Nothing is someone else's problem."
• First-Principles Innovation: Challenge the status quo. Encourage the team to rethink traditional RCC and Steel constraints to develop revolutionary "foldable" or "rapid-deploy" structures.
• Strategic Collaboration: Act as the primary technical interface with IIT Madras (IITM) for design validation, vetting, and cutting-edge R&D.

4. The "Product" Mindset:

• Structural engineering excellence, with a proven track record of moving beyond "blueprints" to "product platforms." You don't just design for codes; you design for the User Persona, understanding how occupants interact with and feel within a modular space.
• Customer-Centric Innovation: 3-5 years leading engineering in a Modular/Prop-tech or startup environment where you successfully translated complex user behaviors and customer feedback into technical structural requirements.
• Behavioral Engineering: Experience in developing building systems that prioritize the "User Journey"from the ease of intuitive assembly (the "Lego" experience) to the long-term mental and physical well-being of the end-user.
• First-Principles Validation: While your years of experience provide the foundation in PEB/LGSF/RCC, your most important metric is your ability to strip away legacy construction "habits" to build what the customer actually needs: speed, quality, and adaptability.
• Systems Leadership: You have experience managing teams not just to "finish a project," but to build a Modular Building Platform that scales across different demographics and geographies.
• Scale Thinking: You have previously taken a concept from a single prototype to a mass-produced structural system.
• Material Science: Deep knowledge of modern building materials (composite panels, specialised coatings, high-tensile steel) to optimize for "Foldable" and "Modular" mobility.

5. Service Profitability & Commercial Engineering

• Engineering the Margin: You are responsible for the financial health of current service projects. You must ensure that "Design-to-Cost" is a core discipline, identifying high-cost structural bottlenecks in bespoke projects and engineering them out to protect and expand project margins.
• Scaling Profits through Parallelism: You will create the technical framework that allows us to execute multiple service projects simultaneously without a linear increase in engineering overhead, ensuring that as the business scales, the profit per project grows through standardised efficiency.

Skills and Qualifications

• Civil-Structural Foundation: Masters degree in Structural Engineering with a deep understanding of IS 800, IS 456, IS 875, and related codes (IIT/NIT preferred).
• Modular Pedigree: Proven experience in designing and scaling PEB, LGSF, and Modular systems.
• Startup DNA: High agency and a "scrappy" intensity. You thrive in environments where you have to build systems from scratch rather than just following existing ones.
• Software Vision: Expert proficiency in STAAD Pro, ETABS, and Revit/BIM, with an understanding of how these tools integrate with manufacturing ERPs.
• Methodology: Familiarity with Lean Construction, Agile engineering, and advanced procurement processes.

Office Location:- IITM RP Tharamani, Chennai