Design Manager

Key Responsibility: ? Supervise design department staff, handling a wide range of Projects. ? Review new parts and engineering changes for moulding feasibility and propose changes to part design where necessary to reduce tooling cost and minimize potential moulding problems. ? Propose concept tool designs for challenging or unusual parts. ? Estimate design time for all new tools and engineering changes. ? Assign and monitor status of design jobs to optimize workflow and meet scheduling and budget requirements. ? Contract review coordination activities ? Participating management review meeting ? Attending to Customer complaint and coordination activities ? Coordination activities with Customer as well as with Production/Quality and with process owner as applicable ? Coordination with Quality for the analysis of Customer return if any. ? Any other responsibility as suggested by the Technical Director as and when required ? New product enquiry, feasibility Quotation to customer in consultation with Commercial Director or Technical director. ? Approve Mold designs, source Molds through approved suppliers (domestically and internationally), and track Mold builds. ? Work within the constraints of budget, schedule and scope to manage risk and ensure adherence to established processes and methodologies through recheck ? Interaction with customers, suppliers, and internal resources ? Demonstration of advanced knowledge in tooling design ? Defining and managing scope, time and cost for complex projects or programs ? Identifying risks, taking responsibility for mitigation actions, and managing mitigation plan ? Assist in troubleshooting tool build and moulding process issues at production facilities. ? Create detailed Mold and tool designs if required by workload. ? Quality management - determine and execute the appropriate level of technical quality review required on all design projects. ? Complete design feasibility review with customer within 3 working days from the MSS review. ? EGP concept released parallelly during feasibility review. ? Adherence to mould design milestones ex. steel ordering, drawing release, ? Timely update and Maintain TGW, TGR records. ? Prepare and maintain back plan for design.