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Company Description
John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.
We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards.
John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.
Job Description
The primary objective of the filtration engineering organization is the design of products for new or existing customers with focus on design within the customer's needs, from both a technical and commercial perspective. This includes planning and executing projects that meet cost targets, qualification, and schedule requirements. Customers may be internal or external to the organization.
- Establish Pre & Post order engineering function for Indufil and Seebach products, ensure capable processes and develop the necessary engineering talent, skills and processes to support growth plans in the business at ISC Pune
- Establish standard engineering processes with clear alignment and accountability to customers’ commercial expectations.
- Assure compliance with customer standards, regulatory requirements and internal policies, procedures and standards.
- Lead the filtration engineering organization, subordinate team leaders including design engineering & application engineering.
- Achieves business’s annual operating budget by engineering targets while maintaining costs.
- Responsible for maintaining department dashboards, weekly and monthly reports.
- Ensure efficient support to Sales Organization and Business Development sales force, in delivering necessary technical specifications, feasibility studies and costing for inquiries.
- Maintain & monitor On Time Delivery (OTD), Lead Time (LT) & Quality of work for all Proposals and Pos-order engineering activities.
- Ensure on time delivery of technical proposals, manufacturing drawings / BOMs for filter solutions, elements, and tools as well as the necessary product documentation.
- Engineering responsibility to resolve production non-conformance, quality issues, and RCAs.
- Control and coordinate efficient development of new products based on market / customer needs.
- Support development of product sizing and selection tools, as well as development and / or enhancement of standard working procedures.
- Drive continuous improvement, standardization, VAVE, and other strategic initiatives.
- Work closely and collaboratively with other engineering teams in Duiven (CoE), Vellmar and Hnevotin engineering teams.
- Approves and enforces Engineering and John Crane policies and procedures throughout the facility.
- Setting strategic team objectives, coordinating their distribution into the corresponding teams, providing regular feedback to direct reports.
- Recruit and Develop team skills and competences tailored to organization support requirements, identify talents and create together with management and HR specific talent development programs.
- Completes other assignments as directed.
Qualifications
•A Bachler or master’s degree in an engineering discipline with 15+ years’ of experience in technology development, engineering or similar functions.
•At least 10+ years of engineering experience with at least 3+ years of management experience.
•Requires knowledge of filtration in Polymer, Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Aerospace, O&G Refinery and Turbomachinery.
•Strong working knowledge of how filtration business & markets work, and how to create growth through engg processes & products.
•Good understanding of engineering process needs in design and operations, key business drivers and industry practices.
•Excellent communication skills to articulate strategies and drive a coordinated action plan.
•Strong leadership presence with the ability to prioritize and communicate clearly across all levels of the organization.
•Ability to work in a deadline driven work environment, attention to detail, and multitasking are essential.
•Affinity with filtration and/or separation as essential technology in process industry.
•An ability to work in an international environment with functional teams spread over various regions including corresponding willingness to travel.
•Self-starter and highly motivated to achieve results with limited direct supervision.
•Excellent people skills and proven ability to lead a team.
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, a proficiency in MS Office, SAP.
Additional Information
With colleagues stretching across the globe, we are proud of our diversity. To foster inclusivity, we run employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other. Our cross-business ERGs include Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity.
Across our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network.
Join us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future.
We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.
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