Discipline Product Engineer (DPE) - Electrical Engineering

Overview

Manage the lifecycle, requirements, configuration, and roadmap for Electrical Engineering discipline solutions, with a focus on scale-up, reuse, cross-product platform thinking, and discipline-wide consistency.

What you'll do

• Oversee the lifecycle of Discipline Solutions and internal Electrical Engineering tools, including version control, updates, and business continuity.
• Translate market and engineering needs into Product Requirement Specifications and drive the Electrical roadmap in coordination with the Global Product Manager and Global Product Specialist.
• Maintain and contribute to the development of Electrical Engineering Solutions.
• Ensure documentation, including user guides and technical references, is current, accessible, and complete.
• Promote disruptive innovations, including automation, to streamline Electrical Engineering processes, reduce engineering hours, and enhance competitiveness.
• Collaborate with experts to modularize methods and develop replicable tools that scale across projects.
• Monitor Electrical Engineering performance in tenders and projects and coordinate feedback-driven improvements across teams.
• Identify systemic patterns and opportunities that strengthen shared base solutions.
• Align with other disciplines and units to maximize solutions and ensure cross-product compatibility and governed deviations.
• Track updates in design tools, engage with industry forums, and build networks to support discipline-wide scale-up readiness and reuse.
• Provide guidance in tenders and projects and ensure knowledge transfer across global teams.
• Collaborate and coordinate with the technical area responsible and Subject matter experts to drive continuous improvement and adoption of reliable, product-based solutions.
• Collaborate with product management to establish and sustain the product lifecycle management system (PLM).
• Ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

What you'll need

• BE /M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering or similar experience gained in other business.
• 10 plus years of experience in Electrical Engineering, modularization or engineering products, standardization, design tools, and PDM systems.
• Experience with E3 Zuken or similar design tools.
• Experience with Siemens team center or similar PDM systems.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership abilities.
• Experience working with diverse and cross-functional teams.
• Strategic, operational, and solution-oriented mindset with a focus on business productivity and efficiency.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.

Nice to have

• Proven experience in product management is highly desirable.

Details

• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Job schedule: Full time.
• Remote: No.