Engine Systems Manager - India

Role: Engine Systems Manager - India

Locations: Pune India - Onsite

Role ID: 2025-3016

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Ricardo plc is a global strategic environmental and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3000 employees in more than 20 countries we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role
We have an exciting future opportunity for an Engine Systems Manager to join Ricardo on a prestigious new engine project for a customer in the India market.

Key Responsibilities
To manage and deliver engine systems through the programme as follows:

• Prepare or update engineering specifications to define system requirements in terms of function cost weight performance durability etc.
• Working with the wider engineering team take responsibility for coordinating the design analysis and development activities for a given engine system or systems.
• Own the system FMEA and system DVP to ensure the system is robust.
• Progress the design through the project gateways to ensure that parts are released on time to support testing and classification activities.
• Manage suppliers of components for prototypes and development including hosting meetings issuing meeting minutes and critically reviewing supplier technical data such as inspection reports.
• Problem solving and issue resolution to maintain the project timing.
• Work to agreed project quality procedures and validation processes.
• Presenting clear and reasoned status reports to internal and external customers.

Skills and Experience:

• An engineering degree qualification to a high grade is expected although other qualifications will be considered.
• Experience in IC engine hardware systems such as base engine valvetrain FEAD manifolds air handling fuel injection pumps etc/
• Previous system or component ownership responsibility.
• Experience in a similar role (eg. Release Engineer Component Engineer Application Engineer etc)
• Design and release of components and systems through to production.
• Support to build and assembly of complex products such as IC Engines.
• Testing and development of prototype systems through to production.
• Interaction with suppliers and internal and external customers.
• Preparing Design FMEAs.
• Competence and familiarity in executing some or all of the following: Component releasing reading and using engineering drawings FMEA DVP Design & Development APQP & PPAP problem solving (8D type) CAD visualisation tools BOM ETRS supplier management.
• Excellent PC skills required.
• Good report writing and presentation skills are essential.

Personal Attributes

• Organised and a concise technical communicator able to understand co-ordinate and share various engineering information with the project team the customer and the suppliers promptly and without ambiguity.
• Flexibility in applying engineering knowledge will be a key advantage.
• Comfortable in meeting environments and be able to deliver clear status updates based upon robust planning.
• Motivated self-starter who manages their time and takes pride in engineering comprehensive solutions to complex problems.
• Collaborative team player.
• Professional appearance and behaviours.
• Good written and oral communication ability.
• Good attention to detail.
• Reliable - able to meet deadlines and commitments.
• Able to work under pressure managing large amounts of information.
• Ideally have a full driving license and when required be prepared to travel within India. Experience of site visits to suppliers and assessment of supplier facilities would be an advantage.

Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work whether that is working from home being in the office or as a hybrid worker. Were happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Diversity Equality and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity equality and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees to ensure an inclusive culture we are a recognised as a disability confident employer.

Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications and the start date of this role that we receive for each role and in some cases we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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