Sr. Engineering Manager Thermal

Responsibilities & Role Requirements:

• Lead and develop the local Thermal Management engineering team in Pune and/or Chakan ensuring strong ownership accountability and technical excellence.
• Be responsible for the engineering execution of Chilled Water products including chiller CRAH and Thermal Wall product lines.
• Support NPDI programs from concept to launch ensuring timely delivery of engineering deliverables design reviews validation plans cost targets and product documentation.
• Coordinate sustaining engineering activities for existing CW platforms including product improvements cost reduction localization quality issues and component substitutions.
• Ensure alignment between the regional engineering team and global Chilled Water engineering strategy standards design rules and product roadmaps.
• Drive decisions on key technical issues to avoid project delays and to support business priorities customer commitments and manufacturing readiness.
• Provide technical leadership on thermodynamic design air/water side performance refrigeration circuits controls integration electrical interfaces and design for manufacturability.
• Coordinate laboratory tests and product validation activities in cooperation with global engineering leaders test laboratories quality and operations teams.
• Support regional engineering team and customer-specific requests by ensuring fast technically robust and platform-consistent engineering responses.
• Review and approve technical documentation including specifications drawings bills of material user manuals test reports rating tools and engineering change documentation.
• Ensure compliance with applicable safety quality regulatory and engineering standards relevant to CW products and local manufacturing requirements.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing Supply Chain and Quality to support product industrialization localization supplier development and resolution of production issues.
• Develop team members through coaching performance management technical mentoring and structured capability growth.
• Promote continuous improvement standard work engineering discipline cross-functional collaboration and customer-focused execution.
• Work in a multi-disciplinary and global engineering environment focused on high performance cost-effective design product reliability and market-leading innovation.
• Availability to travel on request within India and internationally to support global engineering reviews supplier activities customer projects factories and test facilities.

Qualifications & Experience

• Master degree in Mechanical Energy Refrigeration HVAC or equivalent engineering discipline is required; masters degree is preferred.
• Minimum 10-15 years of engineering experience in HVAC data center cooling refrigeration or industrial thermal products with proven people management responsibility.
• Strong technical knowledge of chilled water systems chillers CRAH units Thermal Wall solutions thermodynamics refrigeration circuits air handling and hydronic systems.
• Experience with NPDI processes product lifecycle management design reviews validation planning engineering change management and sustaining engineering.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing processes design for manufacturability cost reduction localization and supplier collaboration.
• Knowledge of applicable technical norms safety standards quality requirements and regulatory expectations for industrial cooling equipment.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to build motivate and develop high-performing engineering teams in a matrix and global organization.
• Strong communication skills in English both written and spoken with the ability to interact effectively with global stakeholders customers and cross-functional teams.
• Result-oriented structured detail-focused and able to operate in a fast-paced customer-focused and competitive environment.
• Ability to influence without direct authority manage priorities resolve technical conflicts and drive decisions across functions and geographies.
• Travel: less than 20%