Team Lead – Vehicle Engineering (Large & Compact Tractors)

JOB DESCRIPTION 

Job Title : Team Lead – ITC-L&C Tractors- Vehicle Engineering 

Tractor

Organization /Department : ITC -AgPD 

Reports To : Manager: Large & Compact Tractor PDE

Overview:

CNH Industrial is a leading global capital goods company specialized in off-highway applications. The Company has a long-established presence in India, with its local headquarter in the National Capital Region (NCR) and some 2,200 employees. CNH Industrial India operates across three manufacturing sites, producing agricultural equipment in Greater Noida and Pune and construction equipment in Pithampur; two R&D centers, 12 training centers, two depots and a Technology Center; and CNH Industrial Capital, the financial services arm of the business which provides equipment financing solutions for its Case IH, New Holland Agriculture, CASE and New Holland Construction brand product portfolio.

The CNH Industrial India Technology Center, newly established in Gurgaon as part of the Company’s global R&D network, will work on multiple products across segments and engineering disciplines. It will support not only the business development in India, but also the global product portfolio of the Company.

Position Summary:

The Team Lead- Vehicle Integration will be responsible for leading and managing the all engineering work on various Vehicle Integration and System design integration engineering aspects of Large Tractor with the aim of best system integration following the Standardization, Modularity and Cost Effective, System Engineering aspects. Position is part of Large &Compact PDE team at ITC and requires close collaboration with Global & Local peers, Global & Local leaders to deliver value output. Nature of work shall predominantly Mechanical engineering across new product development and Current Product Engineering focused towards functional & structural design & optimization, Issue resolution & build/testing support, VA/VE aspects etc.

Primary Responsibilities:

Leadership/Team Deliverables

• The position will be responsible to partner with respective global operating groups to co-create, lead and implement the technology & Engineering roadmap to move CNHi ahead of competition. Find ways to create, grow and sustain a strategic relationship with global operating groups.
• Play a key role, working with global operating groups, to ensure talent and technical capabilities are aligned to execute current and future needs. Hire, grow & retain right talent to execute assigned sub-system/system or defined area of Large & Compact Team from ITC India.
• Drive the deployment of CNHi standardized engineering practices across the team, ensuring effective project and resource prioritization and allocation of resources. Evolve appropriate metrics for team accountability and delivery. Responsible for delivering projects on time, within costs targets, and meeting the customer functional specifications.
• Ongoing identification of recruiting, mentoring and development of the engineering talent & enable potential talent pipeline for current as well as future programs.
• Support and demonstrate a positive and collaborative approach in working with internal and external stakeholders including support functions like HR, Admin, IT, suppliers etc.
• Partner with external resources such as universities, suppliers and associations as needed to close competency and/or infrastructure gaps.

Leadership/ Team Management Competencies:

• Strong Interpersonal Skills: A good listener with outstanding interpersonal qualities and a natural, effective consultative style. Someone who is sought out for their opinions and counsel and who can forge and maintain close relationships across the entire organization.
• Results Driven: An energetic, resourceful, and hands-on individual with a strong bias for action, someone who commits fully to stretch goals and who is dedicated to developing and delivering outstanding results.
• Superior Intellect: A combination of analytic rigor, conceptual ability, creativity, mental flexibility, and judgment. Someone who deals effectively with strategic issues, as well as the detailed tactical activity involved in driving high performance and has demonstrated capability in dealing with complexity and ambiguity.
• Leadership and Executive Presence: Polished professional, poised executive presence and excellent presentation, interpersonal, and consultative skills. Building internal credibility quickly, with balanced competency in engineering and business acumen.
• Natural Leader: An individual with strong leadership presence who works well within all levels of the organization and key external stake holders. Proven ability to effectively lead across a matrix leadership team.
• Effective Team Player: A highly motivated team player that contributes to an atmosphere in which people work together, enthusiastically, and effectively, in producing outstanding results. The ability to constructively reconcile differences in an open and positive manner while operating in a highly matrixed organization.

Functional/Technical Deliverables:

• Responsible for building and operationalizing the team for defined priorities within Large and Compact Tractor Vehicle Integration – in close coordination with local and global leadership.
• Standardization, Modularity and Value addition are must require attributes.
• Accountable for Delivering Functional & Technical design solution through regular design reviews onto On-going design & Development projects, field/build issue resolution, design optimization/standardization, ensure high quality deliverable and on time delivery.
• Responsible for delivering the work from ITC in close collaboration with global teams
• Execution Excellence and deliver Time, Quality and productivity KPIs and ensure effective participation into global design reviews thus meeting expectation & needs.
• Responsible for employee engagement and motivation of the team.

Education Qualification: BE and/or ME in Mechanical/Production/Ag or equivalent discipline is preferred from reputed institute

Details of Work experience:

• A minimum of 14 years overall experience; preferable from Agricultural Tractor/Agricultural products domain in Higher HP
• A minimum of 5 years specific experience leading teams in Engineering & Technology function & Center
• Hands on experience doing design of complex and large mechanical equipment’s with knowledge of Structure, castings, forgings, fabrication, sheet metal, plastics. Experience in doing FEA is a plus.
• Preferably experience on Ag. Domain with design engineering having knowledge of various sub-systems like Vehicle integration, Implements applications, Engine installation, Hydraulics, Driveline, etc. wrt US Agri markets.
• Basic knowledge of electrical design, harnesses, routing and Electro-Hydraulic systems is desired.
• Knowledge of CAD tools (i.e., CreO), PLM system, TcAE etc. in a large organization.
• Knowledge of new product development process for product/platform product is desired.
• Experience working with global teams and as part of large virtual teams.
• Ability to influence and build relations.

Any Other Information/Need/Detail/requirement related to the position:

The role will play a key role in expanding the Large and Compact team for global projects at ITC. It brings significant challenges and opportunities for the incumbent. Additionally, also hold potential for future growth.

Close collaboration in complex matrix with stakeholders from Global PD teams is must. Role is not only required to help start the workflow from global and local teams, but also need to establish processes and systems within Team in ITC to manage this and deliver meeting/exceeding expectations. Role offers opportunity to work in breadth as well as depth of technical areas associated with High HP tractors products of CNHi and requires passion and learnability quotient.

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