Engineering Manager - GCE

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
Industrial • Manufacturing
The Role
Oversees project management from initiation to completion, coordinating teams and ensuring projects meet quality and budget requirements. Recommends adjustments as needed.
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Job Description:

Overview

GCE is the leading manufacturer of gas control equipment. Driven by innovation, we strive to deliver the highest quality gas products and services to businesses across the globe. With manufacturing, sales and supply companies located all over the world, we ensure customers can always access the world’s leading innovative gas control equipment.

Specializing in five business areas, GCE Group focuses its expertise across cutting & welding technologies, valves, healthcare, homecare, and specialty gas systems.

Employing more than 1,000 employees around the world and with customers in more than 120 countries, our product portfolio helps support diverse sectors including the food, electronics and medical industries.

Originally formed in 1987 through the merging of two world leading businesses in gas equipment, the GCE Group has rapidly evolved since its foundation. Through industry mergers and acquisitions, the GCE group now paves the way for high quality gas equipment under three brands: GCE, GCE Healthcare and GCE Druva.

With over 100 years’ experience handling high pressure gases, we are now proudly part of ESAB corporation, a world leader in fabrication and specialty gas control technology. ESAB Corporation provides partners with advanced equipment, consumables, automation, robotics, and digital solutions which enable the everyday and extraordinary work that shapes our world.

Position Overview

This is an excellent opportunity to work for the global leading company in the field of gas control equipment. The focus of this role is managing our R&D team based in Chennai who are focused on Healthcare products and covering mechanical, electrical, electronics and software disciplines.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Managing the team’s actions to delivery New Product development projects. This is an end to end responsibility of successful project delivery from gate 0 to post project audit.

• Manage the R&D budget, timelines, and resources effectively to achieve project goals on time and within scope

• Collaborate with business managers, product managers, regulatory, production, purchasing to ensure that new products and technologies meet healthcare standards, regulatory requirements, and market needs.

• Contribute to align the R&D strategy with the business growth goals

• Creative input to the NPI projects and program

• Point of contact for technical questions from customers/production/product management/quality & regulatory

• Creation, completion, and management of technical files for relevant product lines

• Determining test criteria, organising testing and interpretation of results

• Working closely with procurement to drive cost savings

• Working closely with production to deliver optimized production processes

Metrics of success for the role

Delivery of the product roadmap

Project performance KPIs including, time to market, development cost, product cost, sales impact and product performance criteria

Delivery of cost reduction projects

Delivery on quality improvement projects

Qualifications (Include education, experience, technical, travel and language requirements)

Required Qualifications:

Masters in Engineering Mechanical or Electronics as a minimum

Minimum of 10 years of experience in R&D leadership in the healthcare or medical device industry or highly regulated industry.

3-5 years experience working in a multinational, preferably American led organization working in a Global function preferably R&D.

Experience leading Engineering process (Stagegate) and systems (PLM).

Preference to those with a strong understanding of healthcare regulations (FDA, CE), quality standards (ISO), and product standards (NFPA, HTM, ISO, CFR, CGA, CRN).

Person Specification:

Highly engaged attitude

Ability to manage a team under pressure.

Ability to undertake travel.

Experience in a medical device company is essential.

Experience in leading R&D in a multinational environment is essential

Proven innovation and delivery of multiple successful NPIs in European and US markets is essential

Experience in regulatory matters associated with medical devices is essential

Experience in digital healthcare is essential

Familiarity with healthcare reimbursement and market access strategies.

Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to identify new opportunities for innovation.

Experience with managing cross-functional teams and navigating complex project lifecycle

Excellent communication and presentation skills, both technical and non-technical.

Ability to balance scientific rigor with practical, market-driven solutions

Brand, Purpose, and Values

At ESAB Corporation, the belief is that the progress made today makes the world imagined possible. Its purpose is Shaping the world we imagine.

Shaping the world begins with shaping the culture. And shaping the culture begins with defining company values that can be put into practice each day at ESAB. This isn’t simply what ESAB believes. It’s how ESAB brings its purpose to life.

The values that help guide every action as a company include

Shared Success. We are there with solutions for our customers’ triumphs and challenges, knowing our success is fueled by theirs.

Help Each Other Win. We collaborate as a team to achieve our shared vision – bringing the best people together to explore creative solutions, drive innovation, build on each other’s ideas, and hold ourselves accountable until the work is done. This allows us to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and stakeholders

Always Improving. Continuous improvement is at the core of our business management system, EBX (ESAB Business Excellence). We relentlessly pursue innovative solutions and constantly seek new ways to raise the bar of our performance

Purposeful Leadership. We build strong leaders who meet challenges head on, celebrate wins, and learn from every obstacle – so our associates, our customers, and the industry can imagine and achieve new possibilities.

Every Voice Valued. We are committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming culture that values every perspective – because real progress depends on diversity, empathy, and mutual respect

The ESAB Group Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law

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The Company
Annapolis Junction, MD
3,138 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

ESAB is a world leader in the production of welding consumables and equipment.
Our brand is synonymous with world-leading expertise in the following key areas:

* Manual welding and cutting equipment
* Welding consumables
* Welding automation
* Cutting systems

Celebrating 110 years since its founding, ESAB now serves a global market. We are represented in almost every country by subsidiaries or agents providing sales and support. ESAB also has manufacturing plants across four continents.

Manufacturers everywhere are looking for ways to improve productivity and reduce operating costs. One way to achieve this goal is to align with a welding and cutting partner that offers a complete line of innovative solutions that meet the current demands of industry. ESAB has led the way in research and development of better technologies and products for this industry since its founding.

ESAB has many great minds working on ways to make our industry stronger and better able to meet the needs of the future. We are constantly striving to expand our product offerings – from the best in traditional welding applications to large automated manufacturing facilities. ESAB continues to offer world-class technical support and educational opportunities to help our customers work smarter and better. We are dedicated to working with customers to help them be more productive, more profitable, and better able to compete.

The ESAB group has been owned by Colfax Corporation since January 13, 2012.

To learn more visit our website at www.esab.com and choose your region to begin

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