Senior Manager - Vehicle Engineering

Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

• Act as the single point of contact for BIW Trims & CAE performance and delivery.
• Coordinate with COEs, CAE teams, prototype teams, and validation teams to define, communicate, and validate performance targets throughout the vehicle development lifecycle.
• Collate requirements from external customers (PM, marketing, product planning, service, styling) to converge product design and delivery.
• Manage durability and other performance delivery from initialization to SOP as per MEPDS guidelines.
• Oversee CAE delivery scope, including defining scope, interpreting results, resolving analysis-related issues, and achieving results in FEA (structural durability, thermal analysis, fatigue life calculation, etc.).
• Conduct RLDA for vehicle and part-level simulation, validate through accelerated testing programs, and manage fatigue damage accumulation and duty cycles.
• Ensure convergence of vehicle styling with external customers (CME, perceived quality, styling) and internal teams (VI, BIW, Trims).
• Lead benchmarking activities through sensory evaluations and quantitative assessments to set competitive performance targets.
• Coordinate with internal and external labs for materials, validation, and testing to ensure project delivery.
• Make decisions, propose alternate solutions for non-achievable targets, and negotiate for optimal outcomes.
• Organize and lead regular review meetings to discuss attribute status, risks, and corrective actions, providing timely updates to the Vehicle Engineering Head.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive dashboard to track BIW Trims & CAE project targets across all development phases.

Experience

13 to 15 years

Industry Preferred

Automotive

Qualifications

B.E/B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering

General Requirements

• Expertise in CAE, RLDA, manufacturing processes for EV/ICE vehicles, durability estimation/prediction, reliability processes, and ergonomics.
• Proven ability to coordinate cross-functional teams (marketing, product planning, CME, CAE, VI, COEs, prototype, validation).
• Hands-on experience in vehicle benchmarking, sensory evaluation, and quantitative performance assessment.
• Proficient in engineering tools and simulation software such as CAE, Matlab, GT Suite, and CAVA.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills for stakeholder coordination and reporting to senior management. .